Enjoyed this show. I see a parallel with dictatorial countries putting up the world's biggest dams and the tallest buildings. Are they doing it for practical reasons or just public relations like hosting these big sports events? The late Petr Bekmann said in his book "A History of Pi", about the Romans: "In a healthy society, engineering design gets smarter and and smarter; in gangster states, it gets bigger and bigger.".
This discusion is a bit pointless. Most of the major soccer powers are fundamentally socialist, which makes the debate, at best, the particular FLAVOR of statism, so freedom is off the table. And this IS soccer. Soccer is a players' game, not a spectators' game. Most of the attendees are there because they are rabid homies. You really cannot see the more interesting aspects of the game from the stands or on TV which focuses on the ball. Much of the movement that sets up a score is done without the ball. With only one point for a goal, the juice is not worth the squeeze with scores like 1 or 2 -nil So the net result is a no-win discussion (since 90% of the participants ar high-level statists) and nobody really cares about the game. In the US it is behind golf. If you want to have a useful discussion bring up the LIV tour and the NBA playing footsie with Red China; homeof the Iphone. The NBA is a fully US institution I have also noticed that for the last 30 years, whenever a commercial for laundry products or other cleaner is used that features a kid's athletic uniform, and this is in the US, you'd think it would be baseball or football, yet it is overwhelmingly soccer and we have "soccer moms". Why is the lamescrteam media avoiding the more popular US sports in their ads?
Thank you Nikos and Agustina for this awesome talk!
Thank you Eduardo!
Enjoyed this show. I see a parallel with dictatorial countries putting up the world's biggest dams and the tallest buildings. Are they doing it for practical reasons or just public relations like hosting these big sports events? The late Petr Bekmann said in his book "A History of Pi", about the Romans: "In a healthy society, engineering design gets smarter and and smarter; in gangster states, it gets bigger and bigger.".
21:45 Didn't Ayn Rand support conversation therapy?
This discusion is a bit pointless. Most of the major soccer powers are fundamentally socialist, which makes the debate, at best, the particular FLAVOR of statism, so freedom is off the table.
And this IS soccer. Soccer is a players' game, not a spectators' game. Most of the attendees are there because they are rabid homies. You really cannot see the more interesting aspects of the game from the stands or on TV which focuses on the ball. Much of the movement that sets up a score is done without the ball. With only one point for a goal, the juice is not worth the squeeze with scores like 1 or 2 -nil
So the net result is a no-win discussion (since 90% of the participants ar high-level statists) and nobody really cares about the game. In the US it is behind golf. If you want to have a useful discussion bring up the LIV tour and the NBA playing footsie with Red China; homeof the Iphone. The NBA is a fully US institution
I have also noticed that for the last 30 years, whenever a commercial for laundry products or other cleaner is used that features a kid's athletic uniform, and this is in the US, you'd think it would be baseball or football, yet it is overwhelmingly soccer and we have "soccer moms". Why is the lamescrteam media avoiding the more popular US sports in their ads?
Term ‘soccer moms’ is older than mainstream. When U.S. kids started playing soccer as a new game decades ago.