“… the stupefying effect spectator sports have in making people passive, atomized, obedient nonparticipants—nonquestioning, easily controlled and easily disciplined”

"Sports" in How the World Works, p. 169
Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994, Secrets, Lies and Democracy, 1994

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american linguist, philosopher and activist 1928

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