There are lots of unpleasant things about large crowds but many like being part of one – to congregate is part of our nature
“The future belongs to crowds,” Don DeLillo wrote in Mao II, a quote that makes DeLillo sound po-faced and serious, when he also wrote things like “Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds … I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity’s reckless potential”, and “you people are a bunch of feeble-minded shitfarmers”.
But DeLillo was right about the future and about crowds. Even if currently it seems the present belongs instead to something else entirely, to the opposite of crowds.
Written by Barney Ronay
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/mar/20/far-from-the-gladdening-crowd-live-sport-is-our-collective-therapy under the title “Far from the gladdening crowd: live sport is our collective therapy”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
