Opiate of the Masses

Are Sports Cathedrals The Opium Den of This Generation?

This is the first in a series of sports oriented posts I have entitled, Opiate of the Masses, a term used by Karl Marx to describe religions narcotic effect on the populous. In the twenty first century however, religion plays only a minor role in the lives of most people. Sports, on the other hand are what is important, (even to most religionists), and the primary focus and concern to the majority of the population. Our world is bombarded with sports imagery and allusion. Nearly one-third of the nightly TV news is dedicated to sports, where they present the facts of the day's games, lending credibility to the other stories presented as facts. Billions of tax-payer dollars are appropriated to the construction and maintenance of sports' cathedrals where the masses can go to get their fix.