Sports outcomes apparently are the new frontier for presidential power freed from the rules-based global order that the U.S. had largely created and sustained.
A commission has adopted a technique George Orwell identified in his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language” — using reassuring words to make policies that might otherwise face resistance seem natural, inevitable, even benevolent. The wall of separation becomes adversarial, divisive, hostile to cooperation. The bridge becomes open, connecting, positive.
We measure for success. If that measure is earnings then we optimize for earnings. Social value measured on an earnings scale doesn’t just get deprioritized, it doesn’t exist.
