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How to Enjoy Your Toxic Patriotism — A Field Guide to Your Inner Hitler
The World Cup is in full swing, which means the world's most polite people are currently screaming at television sets over a man falling over in the correct way.
I thought I might take this as an opportunity to ask an uncomfortable question: what if patriotism isn't a corruption of human nature, but an expression of it — and what if the same instinct that makes football exciting and fun is the one that legitimises industrial-scale massacre?
But I’m not trying to be a spoilsport!
In this episode: why spectating sport only became enjoyable once you abandoned your perfectly reasonable…
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