"So here we are then. They're getting ready to storm the compound down in Brisbane. The gunships are circling. Smoke is rising from the out-houses. A lone figure, naked, shivering, the words HIGH RELEASE POINT smeared across his chest in chicken blood, has come staggering through the lines and is being led away under a blanket towards an inconclusive loan stint at Derbyshire."
"It's Harry Brook playing a shot so depraved it has to be pixelated. It's the thrill of Ben Stokes in his final form, a look that says: pensive Nordic god, beard made of wood, hair woven from beaver hide, so authentically Modern Savage you half-expect to look down and notice he's fielding at mid-off stripped to the waist and cradling a wild salmon."
A charismatic leader or leaders propose a new and transcendent idea that promises a panacea for alienated and vulnerable people. Bazball is framed as such an idea, generating intense early euphoria and tribal pride. The early period featured ecstatic imagery of players, theatrical masculinity, and ritualized celebration. Leaders and community engaged in love-bombing, promising belonging and renewal. Rituals and slogans enforced unity while illogical beliefs served as tests of fidelity. A significant defeat produced sharp backlash and a sense of betrayal among supporters. The cycle maps onto classic cult stages of promise, communal bonding, ritualization, and disillusionment.
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