It’s why most people are heavily propagandized and proselytized from a very early age to make sports their hobby. Indeed, these people tend to have deep knowledge of their team’s and their immediate opponent’s histories, with background going back to specific matches half a century ago and impressive retention of numbers and statistics thereof and so on.
All this knowledge of course is absolutely useless politically (and often, socially), which is precisely the point.
It’s why most people are heavily propagandized and proselytized from a very early age to make sports their hobby. Indeed, these people tend to have deep knowledge of their team’s and their immediate opponent’s histories, with background going back to specific matches half a century ago and impressive retention of numbers and statistics thereof and so on.
All this knowledge of course is absolutely useless politically (and often, socially), which is precisely the point.