I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.
War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
Football is like war. It's about taking territory.
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.
Sports is like a war without the killing.
I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
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