Messi Jersey Guy
Today I saw a man wearing a Lionel Messi jersey. It was weird. It was not the ubiquitous blaugrana jersey that you see everywhere. No. It was the new Paris St. Germain one. It felt foreign . It got me thinking. How dares the emblem of Culés betray his tribe? And how cheap of that guy to jump ship from Barça to PSG just because of a player? The strangeness of seeing the PSG emblem in the same piece of clothing with the letters Messi in the back hit me. We are nothing but pawns. Cheap imitators who crave for models to follow. Without them, we are lost. This whole post-modernist idea that says " you're unique ", " you're an individual " , " you're cool in your own way " is complete bullsh*t. The man wearing that jersey wants to be like Messi. Why else would he be willing to shell out $200 to signal to the world that he's committed to emulate him? What part of Messi he wants to be, I don't know. The fame? The money? The ability to dr