In less than two months, the World Cup will begin and with it, the splendor of a planetary event. However, in recent weeks, more and more voices have been rising to call for a boycott.
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An ecological aberration, a human disaster, criticism intensifies as the World Cup approaches. From then on, a seemingly simple dilemma presents itself to us, ordinary viewers: to watch or to refuse in the name of humanist values? Let’s take a step back: what if boycotting was in fact counterproductive as much as it was impossible?
Read Thibaud Leplat’s column
In this video, the philosopher Thibaud Leplat explains why it is unthinkable to boycott the World Cup. By virtue of feelings linked to childhood, which make this event a veritable totem, a sort of “localized utopia” according to Michel Foucault’s expression. And also because rejecting the World Cup does not make it disappear, but simply shifts the problem.