Culture is not for sale yet everywhere it is the playground of the wealthy.
Whenever we find old cities we seem to find finer buildings than others and those are usually palaces or temples of some kind. I wonder if they had sports grounds. W know they had training grounds and the Greeks had games but they were not the only ones. They had games in India. Famously in Rome. Where people bayed for blood.
Why the baying? The blood? Playing rugby when I was 15 I heard the captain of the school first fifteen telling his team ‘I want you to come off the field with blood on your shirt and I don’t want it to be yours’. That isn’t a game. Nor is it when it is politically motivated or when culture is made a game. To impress. To display wealth itself. In temples and palaces.