Ray9
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- Jul 19, 2016
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LSU coach Ed Orgeron has said “We need football. Football is the lifeblood of our country.” He is right. But it is not just football, it is the safety valve of all sports and everything that goes with them. When a US sporting event is attended-baseball, football, even auto racing, humans get to revert to apes and act like fools.
They scream and yell, stomping their feet on grandstands while gobbling overpriced hotdogs and drinking beer. And they all get to do it together! No one is singled out because a kind of controlled crowd culture allows it. It is a release, a very necessary release. We came out of trees 200,000 years ago and sometimes we miss those trees. This is why Spock never really understood Kirk.
Humans do not do well in isolation. We know this from psychological studies on the effects of social/emotional sensory deprivation. Solitary-confinement prison experiences, military outposts in isolated, forbidding areas and accounts from mountaineers and lone explorers say loud and clear that we need other people to function as healthy individuals. No human is immune. Even rich socialite Patty Hearst was soon robbing banks with automatic weapons in the 1970’s when she was grabbed by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
American sports are huge! They give us a chance even for just a few hours, to climb back up into those trees and return to our roots as hairy, nasty, swinging proto humans! Thanks to technology we do not even have to be at the actual event; we have television, so we can invite others to our private tree and eat pizza while a quarterback wins a Superbowl or a batter hits a homerun.
We need sports! Sports are what separates us from hell holes like North Korea where fear and pent up rage make Otto Warmbier the rule not the exception. Falling statues, burning businesses and cops getting hit in the head with sticks are beginning to bore me.
Yes, there is Covid-19 but no sports this year is far more dangerous because those trees are turning up in our cities and soon they could be in your town. We came down from those trees to build civilization which is why we have bathtubs.
I want my sports back!
They scream and yell, stomping their feet on grandstands while gobbling overpriced hotdogs and drinking beer. And they all get to do it together! No one is singled out because a kind of controlled crowd culture allows it. It is a release, a very necessary release. We came out of trees 200,000 years ago and sometimes we miss those trees. This is why Spock never really understood Kirk.
Humans do not do well in isolation. We know this from psychological studies on the effects of social/emotional sensory deprivation. Solitary-confinement prison experiences, military outposts in isolated, forbidding areas and accounts from mountaineers and lone explorers say loud and clear that we need other people to function as healthy individuals. No human is immune. Even rich socialite Patty Hearst was soon robbing banks with automatic weapons in the 1970’s when she was grabbed by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
American sports are huge! They give us a chance even for just a few hours, to climb back up into those trees and return to our roots as hairy, nasty, swinging proto humans! Thanks to technology we do not even have to be at the actual event; we have television, so we can invite others to our private tree and eat pizza while a quarterback wins a Superbowl or a batter hits a homerun.
We need sports! Sports are what separates us from hell holes like North Korea where fear and pent up rage make Otto Warmbier the rule not the exception. Falling statues, burning businesses and cops getting hit in the head with sticks are beginning to bore me.
Yes, there is Covid-19 but no sports this year is far more dangerous because those trees are turning up in our cities and soon they could be in your town. We came down from those trees to build civilization which is why we have bathtubs.
I want my sports back!