re: #43 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I think the NFL draft started all of this. It became a major sporting event in itself, without any football being played.

And so now our society seeks these kind of forced dramas to fill our otherwise boring, over-automated lives.

The Mayan and Aztecs were more serious about their sport:

The Aztecs continued this proud tradition of loser‐lose‐all, as many vases and sculptures depict the inevitable decapitation of the losing team. There are even some depictions of ball players playing with the heads of the losers in place of a ball. Whether this actually occurred is up to artistic speculation. The Spanish who observed the game reported horrendous injuries to those who played it — deep bruising requiring lancing, broken bones, and even death when a player was hit in the head or by an unprotected bit by the heavy ball.

The DNC should adopt Mesoamerican debate rules.

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