On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, carrol cox wrote:
> > It has only the weight which a fan sitting before the TV has on the
> > outcome of an athletic contest.
You mean it's a ritual that hugely invests them emotionally in one side or the other so they identify their individual happiness with the collective fate of that side?
Funny -- that sounds like your description of the purpose of political demonstrations, only more so.
Michael