LIV-PGA Cesspool of Avarice
Saudi Arabia Relishes a Triumph That Transcends Sports
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/world/middleeast/us-saudi-arabia-liv-golf.html
This wealth-drenched episode is just another grotesque monetization of the gilded sports racket vulgarized by multi-million dollar salaries, tax subsidized stadia, gigantic luxury yachts, spacious heavily guarded mansions, sexual predations of underlings and fans, corruption of officials and idolization of developers, coaches, players, and not least bettors.
Now more like royalty and empires, sports world is manic-driven, comparable to a shady religion beguiling believers with hyperbolic publicity, score-flaunting, product and apparel boosting, simulated competition, annual end of season celebrations chock full of costly ads and stupefying entertainment.
Fans go beserk, hooligans howl, comely dames dance high-kicks, players enter the stadium holding hands of youngsters, opponents hug then assault one another, mawky interviewers and announcers and commenters swap trivia as if holy writ about saints sinners angels devils and investors in fossil fuels and climate catastrophe.
For what, though, the reproducton of majesties of ancient olympics and colisseums of carnage, the sanctification of once commonplace recreational pasttimes now magnified as fields of glory, vast cathedrals of bellowing adherents, highways and parking lots of harm-spewing gases, stomachs distended with poisonous liquids and diseased meats.
Much ado about nothing is where this mushrooming frenzy is headed, hopefully without the historical ceremony of virgin sacrifice.