KIN 249: Lecture 4.2

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"It turns out that sports is no more than an extravagance of our particular civilization, a luxury earned with hard work and good luck. Our absorption in them is our way of saying, We've got it made. Who else has so much time, so much money, so much freedom to be this serious about play?" (Hoffer)

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Lecture Notes

Here, Hoffer argues that sports are merely an extravagance; that they are inadequate at generating meaning in a time of national crisis.