Noam Chomsky on the role of sports in propaganda-based authority

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37. I used to feel the same way. But here's how I see the value in sports now:

Back in the Caveman days, we needed men with the most testosterone to protect pregnant and nursing women, as well as those with vulnerable, weak human children (human babies really are the most dependent, for the longest time due to our Big Brains developing). So the most genetically desireable dudes were the strongest and most aggressive.

After all this millenia, our instincts haven't changed, just our lifestyles. We still have all this testosterone floating around, and it's no longer needed for its original purpose. So which would you rather see:

1) Buncha macho dudes building weapons and killing each other on the battlefield?

or:
2) Buncha macho dudes pounding each other on the football/soccer/field? Or the ice or the boxing ring?

I'll take Option 2, thank you!