November 30, 2015

Word: The best description of the Trump campaign

Judd Legum has come up with the best description of the Trump campaign yet -- from a French philosopher nearly six decades ago. Said Roland Barthes:

One can bet on the outcome of a boxing-match: with wrestling, it would make no sense. A boxing-match is a story which is constructed before the eyes of the spectator; in wrestling, on the contrary, it is each moment which is intelligible, not the passage of time… The logical conclusion of the contest does not interest the wrestling-fan, while on the contrary a boxing-match always implies a science of the future. In other words, wrestling is a sum of spectacles, of which no single one is a function: each moment imposes the total knowledge of a passion which rises erect and alone, without ever extending to the crowning moment of a result.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wonder what Roland would say about MMA.