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page 595 - part 10 of 10

If video review is wrong is that, game is wrong?

Game is good. One team wins, one team loses and someone is always upset and that is good and healthy and normal. I am ignoring draws of course, because those are gross. It is life to be mad at unjust decisions but you will be okay if you know life is hard, sports are hard, and sometimes you die in war or old or because there were no antibiotics. If you participate in the disappointment of existence in the small way maybe you don't go home and murder family. It prepares you for your mother's death.

Video review is people losing their stamina for disappointment. Video review will set all to right and keep you safe. Dispose of your resilience because you are safe here. Exhaust yourself for capitalism because its rules are good and must be enforced. Police CCTV will make sure!

Thank you for talking, friend.

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page 595 - part 9 of 10

You do not like progress. You are afraid of tomorrow.

You are trapped by the lie of the future where we can live forever and make no mistakes and feel unsad on the long journey to get there. You are not a forever machine and are meant to err and forget.

If you love review so much maybe review all plays? We have the compute! We will build a map the size of empire, a video review longer than the game. Look at each shot, each step, each muscle twitch and sweat drop. We can zoom and analyze, comment about the social, economic and biological that happened when man was tinier.

Did you know that the greatest baseballer ever died as a baby because of a war but there was no review and no penalty given on the play. Maybe today we would have a drone feed, but machetes didn't have feeds then so the call on the field stands.

It used to be man and flag running up and down the side were enough. Now we march to VAR behind a fascistic drumbeat of optimization and perfection. Are all those missed calls of the older time ethnic failings? Are we more highly evolved now because of the cyborgization of sport? Must neanderthals die so we can live?

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page 595 - part 8 of 10

Very frustrating. We have the fast camera for the slow play.

You are enforcing rules from a different dimension. There's not good in that. Is horse airborne when it is running or is one foot always on the ground? Invent a camera to find out if you must but who cares. Horse works fine without a camera. Better question is how to spell Eadweard.

Why have we stopped time? So we can pretend ourselves gods, free of time, of biology, of all human connection now and forever. We will die lonelier for it.

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page 595 - part 7 of 10

But when it is a cheat! You can't let that moment pass or the game is ruined.

Why is this moment? A moment plucked from a sequence of hurly burly grubby and sweaty moments and bodies engaged in struggle, stretching back to the puck drop or the kick tip or the off off or very first tweet of a whistle. And back again to last season's bitter defeat and back again to when your adversary dated your girl in college and back again to the 1970s when a rich slum lord, high and cocained thought 3 points all at once are good! Why is the moment so special? Because a coach had 10 seconds on the side line to flag at the referee? Seems rushed for truthtelling.

Remove the moment from its life and it dies. Video review says mistakes can be fixed. But to do that we must stop the bodies, grubby and sweaty and beautiful and so much rubbing, stop the creation, the game they are birthing. Their humanity is debased; COWER BEFORE THE PANOPTICEYE AND KNOW YOU ARE LESS THAN MACHINE. Less than the system, maybe a part of it if lucky, but subservient.

And anyway everything looks like cheating slowed down.

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page 595 - part 6 of 10

Good. So we must enforce.

Rules set the stage for the play, they're okay but the stage is boring without the actors. Without life rules are dead. The rules show one perfection but it isn't ours. Struggle is our perfection. Please enforce the rules, but don't be so sad when they miss one. It's okay, you will be okay baby.

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page 595 - part 5 of 10

It seems rules eat you. Why do rules occupy your heart and ideas?

Rules are magical, the border. On this side is everyday life, but through the rules the game begins. They are a fence from where strategy, performance and cultural meaning hang. Without rules there is no tension in what is played, only blob. The rule book is a holy one and lets us know how the angels and demons will meet in battle.

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page 595 - part 4 of 10

You also said that video review pretends perfection...

Everything pretends perfection. Politician can't say, my ideas are okay and some of your taxes will still be wasted or stolen, maybe by me, but I think overall I am good enough. Capitalism can't say, we are a great system whose purest and most profitable form just happens to involve slavery.

Video review can't say, I will keep you warm and safe, swaddled baby on mother's breast if mother's breast was rules. But also, I degrade your life and ability to exist as a living plastic animal who can tolerate and grow from experience. You may learn which fingertip last touch, but your life narrows and brittles. I am sorry your security blanket is now knives.

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page 595 - part 3 of 10

Video review corrupts our perception?

Video review damages how we perceive our own perception. Slowed, repeating, from every point of view, it is not natural. It suggests that God view, all seeing all knowing all perfect, is what we need. It tells us that how we just saw is flawed and desperate for mechanical assistance. Our experience of sport was once an emotional cauldron where senses fed heart instantaneously, but it becomes brittle and sad as non human actors interfere. Maybe robot should just kick ball.

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page 595 - part 2 of 10

Isn't it good to call right? There is so much money on line, and we have technology. Surely it's best to correct.

Is the review always right? It is not. It claims perfection and although it is very slowed and from many directions a person still makes the decision and so on. The review is dancing on a slanted roof from the beginning. It is better to accept fallibility in the real world than to corrupt our perception in video realms.

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page 595 - part 1 of 10

Why is video review?

It is an indicator of the decline in resilience present in today's society.

People can no longer handle a missed call or the death of a soldier on the other side of the world, even if it is for a just cause.

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page 594 - baseball used to be a real sport, with knives instead of bats and grenades instead of balls and a small rabid dog ceaselessly patrolling the outfield. And I don't mean modern grenades with their egg shapes and handles and pins. I mean the Platonic spheres made of ceramic or metal, packed with gunpowder and a wick cut to length to match the pitcher's particular delivery. Light it up, watch it fly and hope you get a strike out. Also, the bases were beautifully woven, one of a kind creations, often covered in blood.

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page 594 - famous still from video of His slide into third base to win the Universal Banner of Justice and Freedom.

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page 594 - famous photo of His slide into third base to win the Universal Banner of Justice and Freedom.

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page 593 - I am so very tired.

Gravity is crazy.

Sisyphus' bowling ball.

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page 593 - Mountain Bowling, Paul McCarthy (1969)

Remember when you could just throw a bowling ball down a hill and it was art?

Try that today your bowling ball is just going to fall apart.

Because capitalistic fervour to degrade quality in pursuit of profits.

Pretty good poem.

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page 593 - are the Olympics still a thing?

Is soccer still played in the favelas?

Can a billionaire even afford a basketball franchise without creating an ownership group to spread the cost?

Is horse racing serious?

Do kids still jockey camels or are the dromedaries now piloted by GPS connected robots?

The wealth of nations pumped from the earth and turned into a soccer team.

When do the fans balk? When they can't afford the ticket, the jersey, the subscription, leaving them to read about their team's exploits in tomorrow's newspaper?

What happened to the riots? People used to burn Montreal to the ground because The Rocket got suspended, unleashing the pent up frustrations of French Catholics towards their Anglo suzerains. An early noisy volley in the Quiet Revolution.

Sport as culture, identity, emotional outlet and distraction for the working class, all swirled up and brought to question in a late-stage capitalistic fury. Value for society supplanted by value in dollars and as the money climbs the sidelines get wider, eventually become walls, and a bare bum running up the field is a league wide security threat. And lord love the owner who's been here for years, living their best racist sexist life only to look around one day and see the walls where before there was only indifference. The mob (league office) will cast them into the wilderness, but there will still be billions in their pocket to tame any beasts they might encounter.

Can you still win a franchise in a drunken poker game, or was that just the 1970s?

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page 591 - two birds flying towards the viewer, an endless blue sky and vast rolling plain below create a crisp horizon line across the whole image. Relax.