When Wentworth’s golfers heard this week that they would have to pay a fee of £100,000 or lose their membership of the ancient English club, many were shocked. They should not have been. The demand from Wentworth’s new Chinese owners expresses a contemporary truth, in sport as well as beyond: everything glorious is being taken over by the 1 per cent.
最近溫特沃斯(Wentworth)高爾夫俱樂部的球友們聽到一個訊息,他們必須支付10萬英鎊的會費,否則將失去這家傳統英國俱樂部的會員資格,許多人對此震驚不已。他們不應該震驚。溫特沃斯的中國新東家的要求說明了當代一條真理(不僅限於體育界):一切光鮮的事物終將落到那「1%」精英手裏。
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