The Vuelta a Espana is not interesting enough to justify watching Chris Horner gesticulate about his chesterfield (沙发).
But the blog needs content and the gridiron slate was disappointing, so I watched him talk for 15 minutes about today's action as if the events were not a foregone conclusion.
💡 this was a "breakaway" stage. The top ten riders agree not to race, and anyone who doesn't like that goes ten minutes up the road.
Unsurprisingly, I was disappointed. It was as dull as I expected.
🔥 is it paradoxical for something to be both "unsurprising" and "disappointing"?
🌎 the more interesting sub-plot is the other cycling podcast coming to terms with their creation of the term "tug buddy" ...
Politics is also spectator sport in today's society.
At the latest cattle-call GOP event in Iowa, it was striking how all the questions are "how will you beat the Democrats and the Democrat agenda" and none of them are "how will you run the country, and what is your agenda".
🔥 none of the candidates even have an agenda, except for Da Vek.
They are more interested in playing to the crowd than anything else.
⚔️ more specifically, playing to their half of the crowd.
And when the name of the game is popularity among the voting public, there is some merit to this strategy.
But only in moderation. At the extremes (as we currently have in American Politics), it becomes an absurd farce.