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an argument could be made that sports are a part of culture. some sports are old as balls, like rugby and pilota; the olympics were originally a cornerstone of western culture. it's not just exercise.

Sure, but why are we spending so much money on it? It may be part of a cultural fabric we're never going to get rid of, but what advances does it bring us today? I'm not saying we should ban children from kicking a ball around in the backyard or playing street hockey, but I am saying we need to start converting stadiums into music venues, disband organizations like the NFL and FIFA, and stop spending so much money on advertising.

Sports stops being exercise when you get paid for it and people spend money to watch you. Then it just becomes entertainment. If people want to be entertained, maybe if we educated them better they'd be able to be entertained by other things. Oh, right, the high school football team needs new jerseys every year. Update the textbooks? I don't understand the request!

Actually, as far as stadiums as music venues go, the basketball/hockey stadium in Raleigh, NC is frequently used for musical and comedic performances. I get the impression that this happens in a lot of places like this.

It does, though the basketball stadium in my city is a pretty bad music venue (not built for acoustics at all). xD;

so? people spend money to watch people do things all the time. how is it any different from musicians, stand-ups, or even circus acts?

i also disagree that people only like sports because they're uneducated. there are sports that are more popular in certain categories of people, but people from all backgrounds and levels of income like sports. a friend of mine's dad is a super rich engineer and a really big fan of golf. some of my college professors are regulars at the local gym and sports clubs. one of them even played competitively for a while.

Actually I'm pretty sure no noted and acclaimed writers or novelists or noted Marxist intellectuals or Nobel Prize winners or global religious leaders are fans of sport

nope

none at all

Edited 2014-06-13 00:09 (UTC)

oh man, i didn't know that about camus. that's awesome!

It is awesome! Camus was super cool.

It's about an imbalance of value. I mean, I fully recognize that I'm in the minority regarding the value of sports, but surely you have to agree that the priorities are at least somewhat skewed.

Sports gets all the money while schools and museums close. Stadiums get built, the people living there get shoved aside. How is that okay?

Sport didn't kill the museum. Hollywood did. People can not entertained so easily by bones and vases when you can see a man fly. And sports don't get all the money. Again, look to Hollywood. Look to the games Indusrty. Look at TV. Look at the music industry. Any industry based on entertaining will always be swimming in cash.

Do me a favour and re-read the part where I talk about how much revenue the movie and video game industry brings in vs how much money goes into the sports industry and then come back. Thanks.

Bread and Circuses.
We spend money on it because entertainment in all it's forms is vital for people to be able to keep slogging through the rest of the shit people slog through day in day out without rebelling and setting fire to shit.
Some people listen to music, some play videogames, some watch feats of physical prowess. I anesthetize myself with video games, personally. I don't see what people get out of sports, but I'll tell you what, I don't think my circus is contributing anything more into society than the sport lovers do.

"maybe if we educated them better they'd be able to be entertained by other things"

Oh, so this is all about liking the right thing and not the actual issues with big international sport events.

Honestly, liking sports is not worse than liking action movies or shitty books, or bland singers etc.
And all those industries move millions.

Could that money have better uses? Maybe... After all entrainment is a part of the culture and that has a value too and let's not forget all the people working in those industries, whose work would be lost without them.

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