It goes beyond spectatorism. Its culture religion, tribalism, economic/geographical classes etc. It can explain Brexit, Trumpism etc in some ways even though it was written over 15yrs ago.
That's what spectatorism explains. In game theory, there are three roles: creator, player, and spectator.
Religion has God/ministers, minions, and the fold.
Economics has owners, workers, and consumers.
Politics has legislators, executors, and citizens.
It's a continuum from cause to effect.
When your team wins, you're happy effect, when it loses, you're sad effect. People break the law when they're at the adverse effect of the game they're living and stop agreeing with the rules.
Trump wins by refusing to accept loss. It's actually served pretty well in life even though he sooner or later trounces on everyone around him, including those who think they're on his team.
Civilization is a game created by people who want everyone to win in some fashion. Trump couldn't care less about anyone else winning, which is uncivilized, that is, not in agreement with the basic tenet of civilization, everyone wins.
It's not that good conservatives want others to lose, it's that they don't conceive of the game as win-win. They have to win at someone else's expense. When Americans, for example, play with that attitude on the world scene, the rest of the civilized world resents it. Of course, the rest of the civilized world resents Trump. By definition of civilization. Trump is a paragon of uncivilized behavior. He calls it America First, but in his mind, that means at the expense of the rest of the world, which
must lose for Trump to win.
