Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Why Sports Matter

The most universal experience in America, historians say, is to have been uprooted. Rooting is a pressing national need. The human being needs roots, because the pretense to infinity, the search for total universality, may be proper to the spirit but not the body, and whoever commits himself to such a search dooms himself to the disintegration of the embodied self, which is death.
-Michael Novak. "Rooting, Agon"

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