Monkey See Monkey Do
After last weekend's Flugtag madness and mayhem we are forced to wonder whether Trinbagonians are such empty headed copycats that they rush to mimic every piece of asinine and pointless foreign entertainment activity that is marketed for their gullible consumption.
We wonder further whether they are so starved for entertainment that more than sixty thousand of them decided to leave the safety of their homes on a Sunday to descend on Chaguramas to choke and literally cut off the Western Peninsula from the rest of the country simply to witness Red Bull's Flugtag, the basically mindless and pointless sport of people pushing a man made object off a jetty or pier into the water below.
That essentially is what Flugtag is all about; people pusing objects off a platform into water below; it takes approximately 5 seconds from the time the object is pushed off the platform to when it hits the water below; and this is done again and again, object after object being pushed into the water. Something has to be radically when large crowds demonstrate the capacity to derive fun and pleasure from such a repetitive, mind numbing and purposeless enterprise.
And as we acknowledge
the unfortunate loss of lives, we feel compelled to ask the families of those who literally
sacrificed the lives of loved ones in their frenzied rush to witness Flugtag:
Was it worth the while? And will you taking your surviving loved ones to witness or participate in Red Bull's next Flugtag?
