There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

by Hanif Abdurraqib

It is easier for some to give in and make gods out of men, some of whom might, at the very least, answer for their actions and inactions. To make gods out of the living, who walk among us, is to break the divine down into sectors: god of sports, god of finance, god of love, god of weaponry and war, god of hellish empire. But at least you know they exist. You can see them. You can watch them be punished in some way that might satisfy you, if you have been done wrong by them, and you can worship them when they’ve done right. There is a simpler economy to be found in the sacrilegious.