“We have become voyeurs and escapists. Many of us don`t play sports but love watching great athletes with great physical attributes. The fact that basketball and football and baseball have become big corporate business has only increased the popularity of spectator sports…
The mood of the Colosseum goes together with the age of corporation, which offers entertainment in place of values. The Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz provides the definitive view on why Americans degrade themselves with mass culture: ‘Today man believes that there is nothing in him, so he accepts anything, even if he knows it to be bad, in order to find himself at one with others, in order not to be alone.’ Of course, it is because people find so little in themselves that they fill their world with celebrities.”