Noam Chomsky Sports Commentator

Noam Chomsky Sports Commentator; Noam discusses how mindless our society can be. How Joe six pack is entertained and duped! How the government can keep us oblivious and so easily manipulated.

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[zerothought]

@SportaChris you know, I happen to like sports; They're fun to play. Humans need to play games. It's part of our basic social structure, and one of our primary methods of learning when we are young...

However, spectator sports that you don't actively participate in (and cheering is NOT active participation) ARE completely irrelevant to anything that matters in life and society. Chomsky has some valuable points here.

[smellyfooty]

i don't find hockey, basketball, baseball, football, and even worse golf, to be entertaining.

i like bloodsport. feeding christians to lions are way more to the point. let's have the running man for real for "reality" t.v.

[roryphelan]

@zerothought Great comment.

[7Rorschach7]

I always post this where ever I can on "SuperBowl" sunday

[toroga1]

Fucking academics.

[ledawg1138]

Chomsky needs to get laid.

[magister343]

@AugustusOctavianus There was plenty of simply awful music in the classical period. The really bad stuff just tends to die out over time, and once the dross is eroded the remnants make the era look greater than it was.

[magister343]

@SportaChris The my-tribe-conquering-the-other-­­tribe mentality IS Jingoism.

[BloggerMusicMan]

I think sports can serve a useful purpose in society, particularly at local levels. They can occupy children and keep them away from more destructive practices by participating in a social activity which keeps them physically healthy, and some of the best times in my childhood were playing street hockey or pond hockey. However, Chomsky has a point on pro sports. Not inherently a vice, but when it becomes the main focus of people's lives then it dulls their brains and skews their priorities.

[cpuwrite]

Am I an exception to the rule or is the rule wrong? I smelled Obama out in the primaries, using the media. When then-candidate Obama joined then-candidate McCain to help stampede the Bush Billionaire Bankers' Bail-Out through congress, he lost my vote. Actions speak louder than words, and Obama showed himself to be a liar and a fake. He has lived up to this. I like to think we're all smarter than to be taken in. I suppose I'll find out this primary season, as I work against the scumbag.