[lbo-talk] lefty on futbol

[Dennis Perrin]

> No, Noam is full of shit, even fuller than usual. Sports are a
> commodity like any other. They don't have any magic power that makes
> them more narcotic than Nair or Budweiser, or books criticizing
> American foreign policy. If he wanted to be consistent here, he'd say
> that art, music, movies, everything we call entertainment, is an
> opiate and distraction. But he can't really say that, and so he's just
> moralizing.

I see what you're saying, but corporate sports culture is used as 
military/nationalist propaganda. It helps condition people to militarism. 
Ballet and opera don't -- unless you take certain German composers too 
seriously.

Dennis