> 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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