
Sports: Ideology, Enjoyment, Contradiction
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I Think the Metric Industry in America Is Booming
i think sports are on, ah, one of things we want to talk about is how sports functions ideologically. And i think that sports, particularly in america, this is happening a bit m in europe with advanced a statistics. But it's the wider import of this is this belief in data and information, which is totally ideological thing. It reminds me of froud's a wild psychoanalysis that like, information will will cure the symptom.
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