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HE SAID IT HE SAID THE WORD SIMULACRUM KLOSTERMAN KNOWS BALL

Now it becomes apparent that all the side tangents he went on throughout this book were in fact necessary to deliver this tour-de-force of a conclusion. Devastating, succinct, and enlightened.

"I don't believe human life can be fulfilling if the only goal is ensuring that it lasts as long as possible" the hard left turn into teleologic philosophy is RIVETING

"It's hard to imagine a modern pro football player who has no idea that concussions are serious, if for no reasons other than the NFL's enforcement of its concussion protocols and the existence of Tua Tagovailoa."

To connect this even more explicitly to Simulacra and Simulation: football symbolically simulates war as it was before the atom bomb, war that was real and that is not (as Baudrillard argues) an impotent proxy. I wonder what Klosterman would think of Baudrillard...

The utter tonal whiplash going from a discussion of football as a simulation of archaic war to a Shane Gillis namedrop.

Baudrillard's simulacra?? In a football book?? Hello?????

"Allegory of the Cave, from the Perspective of the Shadows" brother this is a book about football

"The GOAT is the GOAT because it's the model for what greatness is."

Okay we can stop talking about the Dallas Cowboys now