It's the idea of people putting belief and faith in what's real by looking at a screen or looking at a camera, rather than looking at it with their own eyes.
It's like the tourist who never removes the camera from his face, taking pictures of the Grand Canyon and whatnot. Have they actually seen and experienced the Grand Canyon? Or are they just documenting the experience for some other, offline use?
While the time delays would be annoying, those are minor. I am more offended by this notion that we turn to everything else for what's real and discount what should be the primary experience in front of us: seeing a human game with players on the pitch with our own eyes for our own experience of that. When that experience becomes secondary to every other format, the game is dead. We're playing the sport for robot cameras, sports analysts watching satellite feeds in other countries during the match, and a whole assortment of tricks telling us that what we see with our own eyes at the stadium isn't real at all -- only those things we look to elsewhere.
It's like the tourist who never removes the camera from his face, taking pictures of the Grand Canyon and whatnot. Have they actually seen and experienced the Grand Canyon? Or are they just documenting the experience for some other, offline use?
While the time delays would be annoying, those are minor. I am more offended by this notion that we turn to everything else for what's real and discount what should be the primary experience in front of us: seeing a human game with players on the pitch with our own eyes for our own experience of that. When that experience becomes secondary to every other format, the game is dead. We're playing the sport for robot cameras, sports analysts watching satellite feeds in other countries during the match, and a whole assortment of tricks telling us that what we see with our own eyes at the stadium isn't real at all -- only those things we look to elsewhere.

