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Title: Why Take Away Sports
Source: bionic mosquito
URL Source: https://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com ... 0/06/why-take-away-sports.html
Published: Jun 13, 2020
Author: bionic mosquito
Post Date: 2020-06-15 04:35:20 by Deckard
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Views: 430
Comments: 1

From a very interesting discussion between Jonathan Pageau and Vesper Stamper.

From the beginning of the lockdown and universal quarantine, I kept wondering about why they took away sports.  Bread and circuses keep the masses calm and compliant.  They kept the bread flowing, with $1200 checks, but shut off all the circuses.  Why?

Jonathan Pageau answered the question, and the answer only makes sense if you knew you wanted riots all along.  Sports, like religion, is a place of identity and communion.  But it is something more.  Sports offers a place to fuel our aggressive tendencies and to give an outlet to channel our aggression.  We cheer and root and argue about our team.

The gladiators served the same purpose.  It sublimates our aggression; it’s a communal catharsis of violence.  When you take it away, you end up with what you’ve got now: pseudo-religious actions where people are using all religious tropes of scapegoating, catharsis, violence, contrition. 

The only place where it is permitted is in the protests.  You can’t go to church, you can’t go to a restaurant, you can’t go to sports, but you can go to these protests.  It is the only outlet, and without sports it is the only outlet for aggression

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#1. To: Deckard (#0)

Sports, like religion, is a place of identity and communion. Sports offers a place to fuel our aggressive tendencies and to give an outlet to channel our aggression. The gladiators served the same purpose. It sublimates our aggression; it’s a communal catharsis of violence.

It will soon no longer be that.

It will once again become a place for the “gladiators” to channel their aggression:

U.S. Soccer Lifts Ban On Kneeling During National Anthem.

… and …

NFL players to kneel for anthem as a group …

Gatlin  posted on  2020-06-15   5:22:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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