I wanted to bring up a topic which I think many people share in one version or another. An important case is one's own country and government, but I'll use a current example of NBA Basketball.

I extremely dislike the NBA administration. For one thing the games are known to be pretty much decided in advance by the league, or at least they try to. As a team you can be headstrong and withstand a strong attack by the judges who can be for the other team, and as they can't cheat so much you always have a chance no matter how much the league wants the other team to win. That rarely happens and usually the league wins, but I'm sure there are many exceptions. That is, the NBA is not so different from wrestling and the WWF, before they were known to be fake. But this is not why I'm writing this post.

The main reason I actually hate the NBA is well exemplified by an altercation yesterday, and the league's decision about it today.To describe briefly, player P gets injured and is lying on the floor and his teammate, player KG, is standing above him checking up on him. Player Q, from the opposing team, then comes and starts laughing and mocking P, so player KG tries to move Q away and give P some room, Q doesn't want to, a fight breaks out where KG is held and then throws an elbow which hits Q in the face, who retaliates etc. No one gets injured, and KG is thrown out of the game.
So far fine. 
Q's behavior I would describe as despicable, and KG did what one would expect any teammate or a friend to do in such cases where you are worried at the health of your teammate. The league's decision on the other hand, unsurprisingly, was to suspend KG from the next game of the playoff which is a hard blow to his team, and fined Q. This is not a surprising move as the NBA has very consistently ruled this way, in fact they almost always do, and these rulings with no exception are despicable and come from a single origin.

Who would you say is the better role model in this altercation? Q or KG, who would you want your friends to behave like? If anything you would assume the league would suspend Q and just fine KG. The league demands its players be role models, but it is very far from being any kind of role model.

Why does the NBA rule this way then?  Instead of me saying why I think they rule this way, I'll quote Rasheed Wallace, who in 2003 said:
"I see behind the lines. I see behind the false screens. I know what this business is all about. I know the commissioner of this league makes more than three-quarters of the players in this league. There's a whole lot of crunching numbers that, quote-unquote, me as an athlete and me as an NBA player should know. In my opinion, they just want to draft niggers who are dumb and dumber — straight out of high school. That's why they're drafting all these high school cats, because they come into the league and they don't know no better. They don't know no better, and they don't know the real business, and they don't see behind the charade. They look at black athletes like we're dumb-ass niggers. It's as if we're just going to shut up, sign for the money and do what they tell us"

I completely agree. The league's ruling and administration essentially states clearly that the n, sorry players, are there for our amusement and shouldn't rock the cage. If the league wants to stop fighting you need to be a good little player and not fight whatever the situation. They don't expect you to be a person but only a tool for the crowd's amusement.

But the problem is this, even though I know the games are fixed, even though I despise how the league is being run, I still sometimes want to watch games. I enjoy playing basketball, and I enjoy watching it. What do I do then?

Many people have this problem with regards their country. When Bush is the president, and the country does bad things, you are still an American, and how do you relate to a country whose actions you don't like. Israeli's have this problem, Iranians do, as do many people in the world.

But even more complicated is the general structure of our society that forces us constantly to live in certain ways which we have to accept even if we don't like it.  What do we do? Do we just stop watching the NBA?
For example, I would never buy anything which gives money to the NBA, but I still might buy game tickets which then gives them money. I still might watch games which even if they don't know I do, gives them money etc.