Goldman Says: World Cup Over, Now!

I don’t agree with this declaration by my friend David P. Goldman, having spent part of yesterday evening with friends in a packed pub watching the U.S. play Portugal, and fail to win, but I sympathize enough that it makes me feel a little guilty. David writes on Facebook:

I want the World Cup to be over. I detest the surge of the crowd, the shouts, the cheers, the sense of euphoric oneness. Whatever the political counterpart of this mood might be, it can’t possibly be good. Spectator sports and pornography share these characteristics:

1) They both involve watching other people having a good time;

2) They both involve different people doing the same things over and over again.

I could go on, but this is a family page. Text me when it’s over, and don’t tell me who won.

Here are his articles from The Tablet, in which he covers, always helpfully and usually revealingly, religion, politics, and music.