What if people debated politics, war & economics with even 1/2 the knowledge & analytical skill the avg American man puts into sports talk?
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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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Or the interpretive acuity with which we debate movies and television. (A classic I love: http://nataliacecire.blogspot.com/2014/01/humanities-scholarship-is-incredibly.html …)
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often felt the same thing..it is amazing to hear...I have often said to book clubs--just talk about a book like that
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what happened to old school lunch pail presidents? why we got flashy hip-hop style guys now? i'll take my answer off the air
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