| Hawkeye said: akuma587, do you enjoy watching sports? I watch a little so I can muddle my way thoguh talking about it, but I agree that sports in general can be oafsih. The whole root root root for the home team is akin to blindly following one party in politics and blindly repeat every piece of misinformation you hear about the other guy, and then always voting for your party of choice even if your candidate is old washed up turd ona stick vs. Mr. Cool. |
I watch no sports whatsoever. I enjoy it slightly when I do watch sports, but I would rather be listening to music, watching a movie, reading a book, or just about anything else. I hate wasting time on something when I could be doing something I enjoy more. Maybe once a year I will go to a sporting event, but the people I am friends with generally aren't that interested in sports, or at least have something else to talk about. But in Texas, EVERYONE likes sports, unfortunately. Hell, I know a lot of girls who like sports way more than I do.
I am not the athletic type, but I am in very good shape. So its not like I am adverse to physical activity at all, since I exercise at least three times a week. But sports today are the modern day form of gladiator battles. Entertainment for the dull and uneducated masses. Now I don't hold it against someone if they like sports and they are also intelligent, but generally speaking people who are really into sports are not that bright.
And as you mentioned, the whole mob mentality makes it even less appealing. Its not like sports affect your day at all either, unless you have a pathetic excuse of an existence. Will it matter next year if the Packers win the Super Bowl? Compare that to will it matter next year if Barack Obama or John McCain wins the election.
Something like politics materially impacts your day. It affects your freedoms, your pocket book, the people around you, your safety, and even your mental state. I know I get extremely frustrated when I feel like my country is failing to live up to its potential, or when government officials make a mockery of the Constitution and the American people. Politics is like sports for smart people. Although the mob mentality thing seeps into politics as well, unfortunately. But people should care about politics, although many people substitute "caring" about a cause for "having a rationally informed basis for caring" about a cause.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
