[lbo-talk] lefty on futbol

[Miles Jackson]

Dennis Perrin wrote:
>> 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

I'm not following.  Connect the dots for me between going to (say) a 
Mariners-Cubs game and ideological devotion to the military industrial 
complex. 

Miles