politics is entertaining but i still prefer when it’s boring

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This is one of the historically common justifications of sports - that it's an opportunity for pure tribalism and craziness and entertainment that acts as an outlet for those energies, draining them away from pursuits where they might do more damage if they interfere. The challenge of course is that this is unstable: enough people are inherently more interested in things that "actually matter"

Although sports are clothed in the Olympic spirit, they are essentially commercial activities, like a sugar-coated projectile. But going back to the source, there's nothing bad about business behavior, and everything in the world depends on business behavior, right