I believe that Dr. Chomsky and people on the far Left in general dislike sports and soaps primarily because they present some quite uncomfortable and completely intractible realities about human nature. In the case of sports, the reality is that in any given endeavor, some people are a lot better at pursing that endeavor than others. You have your stars who the coach will put on the field as much as is possible, and then you have your marginal players who spend most of their time riding the pine. In professional sports, selection for the team and pay is commiserate to the players ability. Sports are a true meritocracy, and we can’t have that.

Soap operas show that humans have an innate tendency to lie, cheat, and behave irrationally, especially as it applies to relationships with the opposite sex. The characters in the soaps also have a tendency to chose someone better given the opportunity, without any input from the person they are cheating on. If the nuclear family were to be abolished as many on the far Left would have it, these tendencies would almost certainly spiral out of control and they don’t have a plan to deal with that, because they can’t. It’s a potential source of conflict and inequality between people that can’t be eliminated from any egalitarian society that is set up. It also presents a situation where there are haves and have-nots, but actually in the soaps there are rarely have-nots because the characters just steal someone else’s lover. You either have unfair scarcity for some, or conflict, but you’re probably going to have both because that’s how mammals operate. Utopian cults eliminate this problem by having the cult leader pick who goes with who, and the leader can pick whoever they like for themselves because they can. Of course that won’t fly in the collectivist wonderland of the future.