>I can't formulate a charitable non-trivial interpretation of what you wrote
>or what Chomsky said. Perhaps you can help. Does sports actually dull the
>collective mind? Controversial, but possible. Is sports produced,
>marketed, and televised _because_ it serves (or is believed to serve) this
>function? That seems implausible.
Sports are popular in place with far more developed politics than the U.S. - e.g. soccer in Latin America & Western Europe. No?
Doug