[lbo-talk] lefty on futbol

[shag carpet bomb]

At 05:31 PM 7/2/2010, Eric Beck 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'd say calling any or all of it "opiates" and "distractions" is just 
moralizing horseshit.

shag

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