On 4 juil. 10, at 00:01, Eric Beck wrote:
> I think you are conflating two different things: the display of
> militarism/nationalism and the creation of militarism/nationalism.
> Yeah, sporting events have all sorts of patriotic rituals, but it
> doesn't necessarily follow that any appreciable support for militarism
> is created by those events. There's no evidence I know of that shows
> that those displays increase nationalist feelings. Barring any
> evidence, I assume that like me most people are unmoved by them.
Dennis wrote "it helps _condition_ people to militarism", he did not write that sports create support for militarism.
Jean-Christophe Helary