The Roots Of Our Soccer Tribe Lie

...in Little More Than A Single Century From 1820 To 19450, No Less Than Fifty-nine Million Human Animals Were Killed In Inter-group Clashes Of One Sort Or Another.... We Describe These Killings As Men Behaving "like Animals," But If We Could Find A Wild Animal That Showed Signs Of Acting This Way, It Would Be More Precise To Describe It As Behaving Like Men.

The Idea That It Is Funny To See Wild Animals Coerced Into Acting Like Clumsy Humans, Or Thrilling To See Powerful Beasts Reduced To Cringing Cowards By A Whip-cracking Trainer, Is Primitive And Medieval. It Stems From The Old Idea That We Are Superior To Other Species And Have The Right To Hold Dominion Over Them.

The Female Covers Her Breasts, And Then Proceeds To Redefine Their Shape With A Brassiere. This Sexual Signaling Device May Be Padded Or Inflatable, So That It Not Only Reinstates The Concealed Shape, But Also Enlarges It, Imitating In This Way The Breast Swelling That Occurs During Sexual Arousal.

The Roots Of Our Soccer Tribe Lie Deep In Our Primeval Past.

I Think Like The Species I Am Studying, Whatever It Is. If I Am Watching A Lizard, I Become The Lizard. Gazing Ath The Water At A Pike, I Become The Pike.