Why does everything seem so happy and ideal on Olympics, TV, shows, anywhere

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public, but in real life, its not? Brochures, advertisements, all tv shows, movies, even life events such as the olympics, concerts, high school reunions, college classrooms, work, everything always seems so ideal and great and America seeems like a wonderful place to be....

but behind closed doors, behind your face....after the broadcast....behind the camera, on the highway...in the alley way....

is a disguisting, rage-filled, monster. You get f8ck yous, people who don't care, drugs, alcohol galore, all sorts of disguisting bs.



Why is America false-advertising to be the best place in the world, when,...in the REAL world,

it's so...unlike that?

Most people don't care at all, drive poorly alot on the highways, treat each other like shit, are mean/cruel/conniving.

I mean seriously what's up with all of this?
 
Dont focus so much on the negative. If you are looking for bad things to focus on, trust me you will find it. But when you do this, you overlook the good and the good people. But it really doesnt make sense for the powers at be to openly expose imperfections of this place. They want to look good.
 
The Olympic games, supposedly help to relieve the political world tension. When the ONU was created had the same purpose because the Cold War had the world hanging on a shoestring and they feared that any quarrel would spark off a major confict. This sounds like a good reason for the olympics to exist and be celebrated every four years where all is "marvelous and colorful and it's all about hope and nationalism". But I think, and I presume you will agree, that Olympic games are a form of distraction, so you are worried about the athlete that might get your country a gold medal ( which of course the merit is individual) and forget about a lot of problems that affect thousands of "unimportant people". It's all a show like you said, a massive tv show.
Have you ever heard abou the "2 de octubre de 1968"?
Those Olympics were celebrated here in Mexico. 1968 was a symbolic year in which people around the world protested against government and tried to truly defend the human rights. Mexico was not the exception. On the evening of 2nd octuber 1968 a massive meeting was held in Mexico city; to dissipate it, the president sent the national army but they killed hundreds of young people, children and women too. The "plaza" or public square was bathed in blood, there were shoes and clothes everywhere but they had it cleaned in a few hours so nobody realized what happened. In my country, that is still and awkward subject for politicians and a lot of information about what happened that day is missing. Ten days later the president, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, inaugurated the summer olympic games. The News did not say a peep abou the massacre but there was a total coverage of the olympics. There is a movie about this, it is entitled "Rojo Amanecer" (Red Dawn) directed by Jorge Fons
 
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