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The Pittsburg Steelers win the superbowl,, the final of the US football championship. They are acclaimed like triumphal gladiators while their opponents get beclouded in the corridors toward the locker room like dead gladiators. Aren't certain team sports likely to glorify the strong thrashing the weak rather than encourage sound sporting events, a source of emulation, but not of harsh rivalry? They are. For the time being, every answer to this question has been nowhere near satisfactory, probably because mankind has not yet been changing as much as people imagine and the masses are still in need of circus games.
Brother Michel has once told that he had been at a bullfight in Nîmes, Southern France, in 1960, for the first but sole time in his life. Although an atheist then, he had been upset watching the spectators' "barbarian excitement". He had understood that, "had Christians been pushed into the arena to be devoured by big cats, there would still be a crowd to watch the slaughter these days." He can't stand violent movies anymore, but he still "still takes a little boy's delight in a union rugby match." It may be because this "run, get-up-and-go and hand-to-hand sport reminds me of the brawls after school (primary school)," from which he broke out "sloppy and bashed up, but amazingly invigorated."
He has often asked himself the question, but has found an only answer: We have to lose culture even more every day, so that we can change into men of the time to come. It is not denying exercice or workout and the benefit we get from it to prepare for totally giving up the pugnacity drills.

Copyrigth 2006