Business as usual

Are you an IPL sucker? You probably are one, if you:

* Had decided which team was strong and which was weak before it started.
* Had been sucked into believing this is a success formula before it began.
* Believed that Shane Warne et al come with their face value into this form of the game.
* Don't find anything wrong with truckloads of aging players and very few below the ages of 25.
* Don't miss a beat as the media obsequiously glorified it and blacked out ICL.

There are many more, but the bottomline is that IPL is nothing but Suckerism at its best. Pause for a moment, empty your brains of any pre-conceived notions and suddenly everything around you will start making sense. For those who cant, they are still trying to figure out where the cheerleaders fit in, why does a team like Mumbai or Hyderabad lose all its matches, what is Laxman doing in the Hyderabad team, etc.

There is only one answer and here is where the truth lies. IPL is business at its best. I wonder how many businessmen can boast of a sellout product on the scale of IPL even before it was launched.

I completely understand why the IPL is turning out the way it does, but what should worry you (if nothing else) is that for the IPL to be a success, it is your emotions they need to control. Your brains that they need to program and just as they had predicted, they are able to do all that.

Anything and everything is okay, but once your brain is a slave to anyone, an autocrat is born, in this case the IPL and its bosses. I am not going to enumerate the negative fallouts but a few major ones are obviously the desecration of the sport as the masters of suckerism deem fit and a whole lot of social problems that will never get addressed. I am not going to explain my last statement but let it be understood that when the masses are drugged, the country moves at a snail's pace.

IPL is business as usual; being sold as opium to the masses.