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 Re: حول ظاهرة الطائفية الكروية... مائدة للحوار العقلاني (Re: طارق أحمد خالد)
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العزيز طارق،
تحياتى وكل سنه وانت والأهل والأصدقاء طيبين.
جميل ان نراك هنا، وشكرا لهذه الملاحظات الممتعه....
تذكرت بعض مقولات صديقنا نيوم تشومسكى حول "الرياضه"
“Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.”
Noam Chomsky
وهنا أيضا:
I actually thought this way for awhile in high school... and although I resumed my interest in sports eventually, and it continues until this day, I like to be prodded into some self-examination now and again. Although Chomsky can be almost too reflexively anti-authoritarian - it colors all of his work - I do find some validity to positing that the intellectual energy we spend analyzing sports could be put to use into solving our problems and getting the Republicans out of power...
Excerpted from a speech, as featured in the documentary "Manufacturing Consent":
Take, say, sports -- that's another crucial example of the indoctrination system, in my view. For one thing because it -- you know, it offers people something to pay attention to that's of no importance. That keeps them from worrying about -- keeps them from worrying about things that matter to their lives that they might have some idea of doing something about. And in fact it's striking to see the intelligence that's used by ordinary people in (discussions of) sports (as opposed to political and social issues). I mean, you listen to radio stations where people call in -- they have the most exotic information and understanding about all kind of arcane issues. And the press undoubtedly does a lot with this.
You know, I remember in high school, already I was pretty old. I suddenly asked myself at one point, why do I care if my high school team wins the football game? I mean, I don't know anybody on the team, you know? I mean, they have nothing to do with me, I mean, why I am cheering for my team? It doesn't mean any -- it doesn't make sense. But the point is, it does make sense: it's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority, and group cohesion behind leadership elements -- in fact, it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports. I think if you look closely at these things, I think, typically, they do have functions, and that's why energy is devoted to supporting them and creating a basis for them and advertisers are willing to pay for them and so on.
وجورج أورويل:
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”
George Orwell
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