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The Quadrennial Global Round-Ball Extravaganza
scarred:
i think apathy has to figure in there somewhere. i mean i'm not watching the world cup but i do watch american football religiously even though i'm aware that way too much money is poured into it as an industry.
then again you could say the same thing about hollywood, etc.
basically the world is fucked up and i'm too lazy to change it?
Elizzybeth:
I'm not apathetic, just overwhelmed.
scarred:
that article is pretty spot-on actually
Eris:
That article puts into words what I have been trying to express for a while now.
David_Dovey:
Yeah I made that post in a bit of a rush so I didn't get to expand on it heaps but the basic idea is that the bullshit that accompanies events like this and the Olympics are more a symptom of the generally awful way human beings treat each other due to power differentials and it doesn't matter if it's over sport or, well, any other large corporate sponsored cultural gathering and to write the whole thing off as some sort of symbol for everything horrible in the world (rank capitalism, mob mentality et. al.) takes some pretty willful denial of the way football's appeal to people of all social strata is being used for good.
I also didn't get to point out that the way Khar is saying that getherings of football fans is like Nuremberg or something when metal and industrial bands overtly conjure fascist imagery all the fucking time oh yeah and also-
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