Comment on Formula 1 capitalism
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I was an F1 fan for a long time and finally stopped a couple years ago. a LOT can be said about how it sportwashes petroleum and theocratic dictatorships, but that is barely mentioned at all in this video. Instead it’s about 10 minutes of word salad focusing mostly on F1’s excess which is a very superficial critique of the sport. Most of the points he brings up can be applied to just about any form of entertainment.
MrSmiley@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The first five minutes was satire, the “experts” sit in front of bookshelves to display their “smartness”, talk at people their “truths” to be taken on faith, and go through the rituals of like/subscribe to the channel to their channel.
The pointlessness and excess of F1 racing is the point, it’s the culmination of all human culture, experience and meaning. We try to look for deeper meaning to life truth whatever, but there is none, the meaning is on the surface. That’s all there is, all that ever was and ever will be.