There is a question that haunts me as the World Cup approaches, a question for which I cannot find a comfortable answer: When exactly did football transform from a game played by humans to a ritual performed by the entire planet? Because what happens every four years is no longer, in fact, a sports tournament in the sense we imagine. It is true that there are stadiums, matches, goals, and crying behind the cameras in wins and losses. But […] The post The World Cup and the Spectacle Trap appeared first on Hespress - Hespress is a Moroccan electronic newspaper.