Tag: philosophy
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Baseball as Power: Emotion, Ritual, and State Control
Baseball isn’t just a game—it’s a system of emotional management, civic identity, and state power that shapes how cities gather, feel, and understand themselves.
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Scandals, Spectacle, and the Sports We Can’t Escape
The World Series meets an NBA betting scandal, revealing how modern sports operate as ritual, soft power, and cultural theater in a politically charged era.
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Sports as Canada’s New Tool of National Statecraft
In a multipolar world defined by economic power, Canada is using sports to build cohesion, ease political divides, and consolidate the population for global competition.
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Sports, Ritual, and the Hidden Machinery of Allegiance
How modern sports act as ritual theaters that shape identity, loyalty, and political emotion, revealing the symbolic power behind our most familiar games.
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Ritual Combat and Spectacle from Antiquity to Today
From the Mesoamerican ball game to MMA, societies have used controlled danger and symbolic violence to shape identity, hierarchy, and collective meaning.
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The Super Bowl of Eternal Darkness: America’s Fading Legacy!
In a time of waning power and deep decay, America’s national spectacle has become the Super Bowl of Eternal Darkness, a mirror of a legacy in endless decline.
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