Tuesday, September 26, 2006
NFL = Chinese Autocrats
It is just incomprehensible enough that I cannot be sure, but this atrociously bad editorial in today's Boston Globe appears to compare the National Football League with the autocrats who run China. It appears to compare the Chinese autocrats favorably. I just tried to re-read it, but my brain started to hurt too much, so I welcome reader interpretations.
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Especially fun is how the editorial randomly throws out the labels "communist," "socialist," and "Chinese," as if they're all the same and completely self-explanatory. Good times.
One of my classes is doing rhetorical analysis right now--we just read about faulty analogies last week. I would send this to them if I didn't think it would just confuse them unnecessarily (they're freshmen, it's a class on rural America, ...).
Oh, wait, no, I just re-read it. Are they comparing the NFL to old-style China? And new China is better than the NFL (more "Darwinian")?
Hell, I have no idea what this editorial is saying.
Rhonda --
This article almost qualifies as gloriously bad. It is so awful that it takes on an almost stately status. It's like an ugly baby in that you are inexplicably drawn to it because it coos and gurgles and does all of the things that a normal baby does, but it's ugly!
dcat
Let me summarize: The NFL reminds us of communist China, only China isn't communist anymore, which reminds us of the NFL, which in some of its characteristics are a lot like China when it was still communist. Also: Mao had a cult, in the NFL there is survival of the fittest, and Bill Belichick controls the media.
It's all so simple when you break it down.
Ooooohhhhhh, it's all so clea . . . nope. Still don't get it.
dcat
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