The Zynternet’s spectacle reaches its limit when even the sham feels too staged
Evidence
And yet, the Paul–Tyson fight itself felt too openly like a sham. The much-hyped bout featured Paul pulling his punches and Tyson carefully pacing himself, ensuring the fight was less a genuine competition than a carefully staged pantomime of violence. Novelist Will Leitch summarized the letdown: “It’s one thing to watch a farcical fight; it’s another entirely when farcical fights are all that are left.” — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 829
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- XREF: Leitch’s quote is a candidate exhibit for the reader’s counter-thesis: cynicism so total it collapses into its own exhaustion.