Sports, the new opiate of the people

[tkmorris]

26. It's not sports

There are vast legions of people out there who don't know a damned thing about politics, or really anything you or I might consider important. Do you know why?

Because they don't bloody well care, that's why.

Sure, they may know a lot about sports, but they are as likely to know a lot about American Idol, or fashion trends, or pop music, or about a hundred other topics. Everyone fills their head with SOMETHING, but your mistake is in believing that if one chooses to follow sports or what have you it is to the exclusion of anything else.

I would hazard a guess that you are an expert on some topic or another that I couldn't possibly care less about. Does that mean you don't know anything that I DO think is important? Of course not. Likewise, I can tell you the starting lineups of every team in the Champion's League knockout stages last year, why Man U will not win the EPL this coming season, and why the LA Galaxy continue to struggle despite a line-up featuring Robbie Keane, David Beckham, and Landon Donovan. Do you care? I doubt it, but that's OK because that isn't ALL I know. I know a fair bit about electronics, computer hardware and software, physics, astronomy, science fiction, and about a thousand other things INCLUDING politics and current events.

You don't like sports, I get it, but blaming people's ignorance on topics you do care about because they happen to have an interest in one you don't is at best a fallacy and at worse being deliberately obtuse.