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> Gladiators are 2000 years old My point, exactly. > they didn't represent anyone. Of course their did. People had their favorites. Community had champions.
by sametmax 8y ago
> Gladiators are 2000 years old
My point, exactly.
> they didn't represent anyone.
Of course their did. People had their favorites. Community had champions.
Besides, 11 people representing a country is just a ploy to entertain people. There is zero level of relationship between the players and the rest country.
Anyway, the point is moot. It doesn't change the basis of the mechanism: entertaining the mass so that they divert they aggressiveness.
- philwelch 8y ago> Besides, 11 people representing a country is just a ploy to entertain people. There is zero level of relationship between the players and the rest country. Aside from the legal requirement that they be citizens of the country they play for, and that once a player represents his country in a competitive match, they are bound to represent that same country for the rest of their lives, barring some extraordinary situation where the country itself breaks up or ceases to exist.
- sametmax 8y agoArtificial requirements to make the illusion of a connection stronger.
- kami8845 8y agoI think your assertion that people who were born and grew up in the same country bear 0 resemblance goes against a lot of modern statistics.
- sametmax 8y agoThey do but not more or less than footballers, bakers or your neighboor. There is nothing special about football except the idea that it's special.
- philwelch 8y agoI really don’t see what makes the concept of national football teams any more artificial than the concept of nations in the first place.
- moretai 8y agoI don't think anyone would disagree with you there.
- Godel_unicode 8y ago> There is zero level of relationship between the players and the rest country. Oh I so dare you to go to Brazil and say Neymar doesn't matter. Actually, don't, I don't want to be (indirectly) responsible for your maiming...
- sametmax 8y agoYes, it's very efficient mechanism to control the population. People have a strong illusion their connection is real
- Godel_unicode 8y agoTo make my point plainer, who are you to say it isn't?
- sametmax 8y ago"who are you" implies I should have some special status to give my opinion. But the fact remains that they don't run after the ball themself. They don't make any effort in this competition. They don't even have any personnal relationship with the players. I don't deny it's fun. You should have fun. But it's no more real than a movie.
- moretai 8y agoWe are all connected.
- sonnyblarney 8y agoBut we are connected to some much more than others. See: mother + newborn.
- moretai 8y agoDo you remember coming out of your mother's vagina?