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Cut off from society, sports become junk

By Erik Curren | March 20, 2013

Roman Gladiators

If junk food contains little nutrition without the benefits of real food, then junk sports provide only empty entertainment without the benefits of real sports. Rather than inspiring ordinary people to become healthy and achieve their physical and mental potential in cooperation with others, junk sports encourage laziness, celebrity-worship and über-competitiveness. If … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: Achievement, Karl Polanyi, medicine, Physical Exertion, sports, Super Bowl

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