I don’t need to overstate this.
I don’t need to say that by watching World Cup 2022,
held in Qatar, in your private leisure gadget,
you’re stepping over the our bodies of useless migrant staff,
standing on the heads of incarcerated queer individuals,
and bankrolling, in a tiny however vital means, the worldwide grift.
As a result of we’re all compromised, proper?
We’re all implicated. All of us stay in webs of capital.
We’re all caught within the mesh of consequence.
And oh the conundrums, and oh the dilemmas,
and oh the fantastic thing about soccer, et cetera.
However this—
a cooling fan the scale of Lake Geneva
can not blow the stink off this one.
That is an occasion of such planetary absurdity,
such gleaming and sharp-edged corruption,
such astoundingly apparent wrongness,
and such dependence on you, the viewer,
that—for as soon as—the suitable factor is straightforward.
So hear:
These video games are an ethical botch.
How onerous is it to not watch?
This time solely, you win the prize
by averting your eyes.
