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“At a stage in the United Kingdom’s economic development when very few people can earn a living out of actually making things anymore, it is easy to see how the idea of two men building a career by sitting in a replica version of their own front room discussing that week’s football results might be attractive. But there is more to the success of fantasy football league than that..it seems to define a shift in cultural emphasis from direct to indirect participation: where actually doing things is no longer deemed to be quite as interesting or important as responding to other people doing them. Coinciding fortuitously with a huge technologically inspired expansion in the amount of space to be filled in digital tv and radio schedules..this apotheosis of passivity prompts an orgy of heedless self gratification on a scale unseen since the days of the Roman empire. Wherever you look there are people revealing their inner selves ..”
Ben Thompson Sunshine on Putty p238
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