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Submitted by Cassiodorus on Tue, 11/29/2022 - 11:21pm
I am not sure I want to add anything to this book review:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n22/david-goldblatt/how-to-get-on-tv
It's a better summary of this year's World Cup politics than anything I could come up with. Please read it all the way through. Yeah, I know, it's a book review, by someone else. It's a very good one. I guess I could say in summary that places like Qatar would not be what they are if a very large portion of the human race wasn't being left to twist in the wind while the power-mongers and money-grubbers manipulated them.
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I am including this song --
-- because it has the word "power-mongers" in it...
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
Yep. It seems we are all Nero now.
Instead of fiddling while Rome burns it's the whole planet.
And to be fair, for the last anecdote of the piece, there is nothing more liberating than riding a motorcycle. And to ride it across Europe as a young Qatari? Rich, no troubles? What a fucking life, eh? But yeah, he's right. Happiness has nothing to do with riches. Being completely powerless, however, kind of sucks.
And...it is still a beautiful game.