Hi Christopher
I see what you're saying, and I've no desire to say sport is something
that it isn't. Nor am I claiming that it offers the same rewards as
art does: sport and art are different (although I'd claim a deep
relationship, at interesting levels). All the same, I think it's all
too easy to dismiss what it does offer, to see them as simply mob
gratification, where I think there is something more interesting going
on: a class judgment, if you like, rather than a real evaluation of
what drives athletes and attracts its audiences. That production of
feeling you describe can indeed occur in sport, and it not necessarily
a crude or base feeling, nor cynically manufactured, it can be complex
and real.
Cheers
Alison
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