THE DISENCHANTMENT OF SPORT
Sport is the straight aim of the archer, but also the pointlessness of the circular track.
THE DISENCHANTMENT OF SPORT
Sport is the straight aim of the archer, but also the pointlessness of the circular track.
Sport is the lure of symbolic gold, but the jungle is winner takes all.
Sport is the darling of the sports fan, but the jungle is the closed harem.
Sport is the unambiguous win, but also the vagaries of the line judge and the offside.
Sport is the freedom of the level playing field, but that requires the handicap, the weighted saddle, banned skills and outlawed tech.
Sport is the competitive matching of like with like, weight with weight, sex with sex, but the jungle matches all with all, the He-Man and the seven-stone weakling, in an endless agon.
Against Caillois then:
Sport has calmed down the selfish ambition of man in the spirit of play, a respect for the rules of the game, and competition for its own sake. That is, sport has given birth to civilisation, but what a civilisation!
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