Sports, the new opiate of the people

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62. Why trash the thread?

When I can trash the sophomoric caricature of society it presents?

Now you're on about the fanaticism of sports. If fanaticism is a means of control then, by your use of the terms, wouldn't politics be the ultimate opiate of the masses? Nothing inspires and cultivates fanatics like the thought of determining how other people live their lives. Nevermind that if you name any human endeavor that many people care about then I or somebody else can point to examples of fanaticism. Yes, that includes music, your example of Boston's wealthier residents notwithstanding.

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Opiates do not make you fanatical. Opiates might make you yielding or complacent but they do not make you controllable. They are strong pain killers that put their users in la-la land. Perhaps you mean that sports are the cocaine of the masses. Though I guess if you said that you wouldn't be able to glom onto the reputation and credibility of Marx.