That's not to bash sports but to point out most ppl are v intelligent. It's how/where intelligence gets channelled.https://twitter.com/ChaseMadar/status/836604911831891968 …
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I think Chomsky has made this exact set of points for years. He's right, I always feel stupid talking to people who love sports.
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Because they are obviously very intelligent and capable of absorbing and analyzing large, detailed amounts of information.
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Chomsky has made that point, but sometimes it makes me wonder if our love of politics is just a consequential hobby
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Right that's the other thing, many of us do talk about politics like sports, but politics has consequences.
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And that's how we get The Fix, among others
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What if people monitored integrity governance, trajectories of polities & deployment blood/treasure as fastidiously as markets?
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@DavidKlion most people including in the media are just as dumb about sports as politics. See: Skip Bayless -
This is a fair point, actually. I'm a sports ignoramus so for all I know most sports chatter is stupid & wrong
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shared pitfalls: tribal loyalty w/poor sense of history, context, structural factors, probability, randomness, etc
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And lots and lots of magical thinking
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Chomsky has talked about this!
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"Hiya, Mike, longtime, first-time…Anyway, what's up with president still using the 2001 AUMF to wage war despite dubious legal…
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Chase brings the Chomsky! Here's a
@JamesFallows riff on this from a while backhttps://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/09/on-the-sophistication-of-sports-talk-radio-featuring-noam-chomsky-and-armando-benitez/262079/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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people do, it's just not televised...
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...but with 1/2 of the testosterone, please.
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Chomsky has often made the same point. But that same intelligence also shows most people that they are unable to affect govt.
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create fantasy politics, then they'll focus.
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In Manifacturi g Consent, Chomsky points out that this is not an accident.
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