[lbo-talk] RE: Chomsky/sports

Jon Johanning jjohanning at igc.org
Tue Oct 28 10:25:02 PST 2003


On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 11:00 AM, joanna bujes wrote:


> No, film can be spectacle too. Sports can be spectacle. But I really
> do give up on this topic since we are not able to move beyond
> censure/praise.
>

I think I can make that move -- I think that people who like to watch football or basketball are perfectly OK. I don't censure or praise them. And if you want a theory about why they watch sports: it's because they find it a fun way to spend their free time.

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.' -- Sir Arnold Bax



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