Herr Hentrich and Senor Raul,
To watch the unprecedented 'mass mobilisation' for a cricket match – one that has far exceeded any recent political mass mobilisation – is not only frustrating, it is nauseating in the Kafka-esque sense of the word. It is nauseating to watch the dominant status quo controlled and manipulated by the uber gorts.
There are thousands & thousands of whose folks still living in tents which are rendered ineffective by the heavy rain. How do the gort public , those admirers of the cricket heroes, react to that? It is simply too painful and cruel to even compare.
The media machine in a Goebbels-esque manner, launches strange and pretentious campaign: fixed days for pilgrimage and prayer for the victory of 'our boys' – the cricket players!
The production of a cultural industry saturating us with video clips, movies, soap operas, advertisements, action films, sexual gossip about pop stars, popular songs and so on has developed enormously. It has reached a point of creating an unprecedented false consciousness embodied in the latest media mobilisation. The average citizen has not been made to question as to why millions of kids are illiterate but rather whether or not the cricket team will achieve the 'national dream' of winning the cup!
The numbers of these illiterates fade into insignificance when compared with the number of expected runs the match is to produce.
The prayers muttered on the lips of the spectators before and during the match have far superseded those prayers muttered for the kids who die of starvation and homelessness.
Keep well.