Sports Illustrated

I read a couple of Sports Illustrated Magazines over the past few days. Sports Illustrated is an extremely popular sports magazine that is sent out weekly. It covers all the sports, but focuses especially on professional sports that are presently happening. Most of the content in issues I read talked about football and the Super Bowl.
It may seem like an artifact that only talks about sports would not have much to say about the empire, but in fact there are many subtle issues discussed. Sports Illustrated or SI has much to say about the purpose man. I feel like SI is telling me that men who are successful athletes are somehow better than I am. The ways many of the articles talk about the athletes seem to give me the feeling that they are superior to me. These athletes have money, power, fame, and super model wives, and SI implies that that these athletes are somehow superior to me. They are seen as heroes, but in reality they are no different then I. Unfortunately this flawed view of success is quite common in the empire; in fact it is extremely popular in magazines. Time, People, Rolling Stones, News Week, Vogue, Forbes, and of course SI all have one thing in common the idolization of mere people. All of these magazines put these “celebrities” in a class that is inherently better than us “common” people. The empire is telling us that if we aren’t a celebrity then we are nothing. The only way we will be happy is if we are as famous and rich as that person. The sad truth is many people buy into this lie from the empire. These people consume these magazines and dream of being as successful, beautiful, rich, or famous as the people in it. Thankfully there is hope. The Kingdom accepts all people; in fact the people that the empire may see as lesser the Kingdom sees as greater. This is another example of the backwards kingdom. So next time the empire tells you that you are a second class citizen just remember that makes you a first class citizen of the Kingdom; and that is what really matters.