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Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses.
Jean Baudrillard
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Jean Baudrillard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 29
Died: 2007
Died: March 6
Anthropologist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Photographer
Professor
Sociologist
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Rheims
Ḻāṉ Pōtriyā
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Happy
Stupefying
Power
Diabolical
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Masses
Bear
Bears
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Football
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