Race and class and identity like always seem to be right there on the surface at the World Cup every 4 years. Like, maybe more so than any other sporting event.
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Michel Foucault — On the Genealogy of Ethics
A society that trains its youngsters with these degraded values on the sports field will soon find the same vices everywhere else. Long ago, Duke Wellington allegedly boasted that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. Nowadays we could make a less enviable claim, namely that the corruption of our institutions starts in the youth sports leagues.
Ted Gioia
The clip features the David Bowie track "Five Years," which includes lyrics such as "Earth was really dying (dying)."
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