[lbo-talk] RE: Film Notes

[Simon Huxtable]

At a recent talk Terry Eagleton said that, in a future
'socialist' society, 'we have to get rid of sport',
because sport, with its generation of (artificial?)
passions, competition, ebb and flow, replaces our
desire for politics and social change. 

I'm not sure whether he was referring to sport as a
negative source of competition (nationalism,
hooliganism and the like) or, alternatively, to the
way that sport might be a bone that is thrown to us to
stop us from wanting to change society (the comment
was made in the context of a question on 'leisure and
culture'. 

I'm not, as a sporty person, sure whether I agree with
that, but it's a point worth thinking about.

Simon


>Do sports go out the window in any future
co->operative society? Or will
>baseball, football and basketball be replaced with
>hackey-sack, Frisbee
>tossing and kickball games where runs are not
counted?

DP

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