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I love football, but I largely agree with this point of view: “Soccer is popular,” Jorge Luis Borges observed, “because stupidity is popular.” Borges’ distaste for the sport stemmed from something far more troubling than aesthetics. His problem was with soccer fan culture, which he linked to the kind of blind popular support that propped up the leaders of the twentieth century’s most horrifying political movements. Soccer is inextricably tied to nationalism and Nationalism only allows for affirmations, and every doctrine that discards doubt, negation, is a form of fanaticism and stupidity.
Posted on: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 00:24:42 +0000

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