Poll: What is the most overrated sport

[SuburbanFarmer]

I realized the purpose of pro sports while working in factory at 18. It's to give people whose lives are boring and whose work is mind numbing something that actually changes from day to day.

Why do people think this? I'm not a huge sports fan, but they aren't some conspiracy to pacify people. It turns out people like playing sports and watching them for entertainment. Who cares? Are reading books pointless because they're enjoyable? Or because they engage the mind, they're somehow superior? That's some puritan nonsense. It's great that people are into sports, even if only watching them.

Both are true, in my opinion. Opiate of the masses, but a valuable one.

[doc_loliday]

Enjoying oneself is an opiate? What exactly should everyone be doing anyway? Studying philosophy on the nature of happy or going out and being happy? Let people be.

[Speaker to Animals]

Enjoying oneself is an opiate? What exactly should everyone be doing anyway? Studying philosophy on the nature of happy or going out and being happy? Let people be.

Instead of watching television sports entertainment, we should be playing sports. If you like football, then go play football. Join a local team.

That's not to say you should never watch sports on television, just that most men use that a substitute for masculinity, especially in the context of physical improvement. Every single Superbowl Sunday I get asked about the game. I say I don't watch it. Then some fat slob tries to signal how much less a man I am than him because I don't watch as much television content. It's really starting to kill me at the level of my soul. I hate seeing men ruined like this. I really do.

Our ancestors battled sabertooth tigers with spears and hunted giant ice age animals with atl atls. They sailed across the ocean in tiny wooden ships to carve a new half of our civilization into the savage and hostile wilderness and jungles of the Americas. Neil Armstrong didn't land that fucking thing on the Moon because he spent all his time watching television.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Enjoying oneself is an opiate? What exactly should everyone be doing anyway? Studying philosophy on the nature of happy or going out and being happy? Let people be.

Instead of watching television sports entertainment, we should be playing sports. If you like football, then go play football. Join a local team.

That's not to say you should never watch sports on television, just that most men use that a substitute for masculinity, especially in the context of physical improvement. Every single Superbowl Sunday I get asked about the game. I say I don't watch it. Then some fat slob tries to signal how much less a man I am than him because I don't watch as much television content. It's really starting to kill me at the level of my soul. I hate seeing men ruined like this. I really do.

Our ancestors battled sabertooth tigers with spears and hunted giant ice age animals with atl atls. They sailed across the ocean in tiny wooden ships to carve a new half of our civilization into the savage and hostile wilderness and jungles of the Americas. Neil Armstrong didn't land that fucking thing on the Moon because he spent all his time watching television.

All opportunities for greatness have been absorbed by the plutocracy. Greatness is now making your quarter, citizen. Help make the numbers, and be part of Greatness.

[brewster]

Enjoying oneself is an opiate? What exactly should everyone be doing anyway? Studying philosophy on the nature of happy or going out and being happy? Let people be.

Sure you can argue that it's harmless, but on the other hand if people spent half as much time learning what's actually going on in their country and world, we'd have far fewer "low-information voters". And probably fewer non-voters too. There's guys who could rattle off a century's worth of baseball statistics but couldn't tell you how many times in that century their country has sent troops into combat.

It's all part of what keeps the masses distracted from the people picking their pockets. I lived in Pittsburgh in 1980 when the Steelers won the Superbowl and their economy was going down the toilet bowl. Smoke and mirrors...

[Speaker to Animals]

Enjoying oneself is an opiate? What exactly should everyone be doing anyway? Studying philosophy on the nature of happy or going out and being happy? Let people be.

Instead of watching television sports entertainment, we should be playing sports. If you like football, then go play football. Join a local team.

That's not to say you should never watch sports on television, just that most men use that a substitute for masculinity, especially in the context of physical improvement. Every single Superbowl Sunday I get asked about the game. I say I don't watch it. Then some fat slob tries to signal how much less a man I am than him because I don't watch as much television content. It's really starting to kill me at the level of my soul. I hate seeing men ruined like this. I really do.

Our ancestors battled sabertooth tigers with spears and hunted giant ice age animals with atl atls. They sailed across the ocean in tiny wooden ships to carve a new half of our civilization into the savage and hostile wilderness and jungles of the Americas. Neil Armstrong didn't land that fucking thing on the Moon because he spent all his time watching television.

All opportunities for greatness have been absorbed by the plutocracy. Greatness is now making your quarter, citizen. Help make the numbers, and be part of Greatness.

That is untrue. Nothing stops you from greatness but yourself.

[brewster]

Instead of watching television sports entertainment, we should be playing sports. If you like football, then go play football. Join a local team.

That's not to say you should never watch sports on television, just that most men use that a substitute for masculinity, especially in the context of physical improvement. Every single Superbowl Sunday I get asked about the game. I say I don't watch it. Then some fat slob tries to signal how much less a man I am than him because I don't watch as much television content. It's really starting to kill me at the level of my soul. I hate seeing men ruined like this. I really do.

Our ancestors battled sabertooth tigers with spears and hunted giant ice age animals with atl atls. They sailed across the ocean in tiny wooden ships to carve a new half of our civilization into the savage and hostile wilderness and jungles of the Americas. Neil Armstrong didn't land that fucking thing on the Moon because he spent all his time watching television.

All opportunities for greatness have been absorbed by the plutocracy. Greatness is now making your quarter, citizen. Help make the numbers, and be part of Greatness.

That is untrue. Nothing stops you from greatness but yourself.

I kinda agree with them. We've reduced greatness to performances and stunts or being a billionaire. Even in my son's chosen sport and career of climbing, where once you went because "it was there" and no one had ever been there, now they'll try and do it in winter, or who can do it youngest, oldest, most crippled, blind, whatever. A ex-Gurkha and British special forces Nepalese just did all 14 8,000m peaks in 6 months, beating the old record of 7 years. It's an impressive feat, but as ultimately "so what?" as the Superbowl. True greatness leaves behind a world different than before, even if it was just a handful of lives that you saved like a Medal of Honor winner.

[Speaker to Animals]

All opportunities for greatness have been absorbed by the plutocracy. Greatness is now making your quarter, citizen. Help make the numbers, and be part of Greatness.

That is untrue. Nothing stops you from greatness but yourself.

I kinda agree with them. We've reduced greatness to performances and stunts or being a billionaire. Even in my son's chosen sport and career of climbing, where once you went because "it was there" and no one had ever been there, now they'll try and do it in winter, or who can do it youngest, oldest, most crippled, blind, whatever. A ex-Gurkha and British special forces Nepalese just did all 14 8,000m peaks in 6 months, beating the old record of 7 years. It's an impressive feat, but as ultimately "so what?" as the Superbowl. True greatness leaves behind a world different than before, even if it was just a handful of lives that you saved like a Medal of Honor winner.

This is what Nietzsche referred to as ressentiment. It's just making excuses for your failings. It's like when the alt-right guys blame the Jews and some secretive Jewish cabal for all their failings, or when feminists blame white men and the patriarchy. It's an act of externalizing who determines your successes and failures into some evil foe over whom you have little control. So therefore you have no reason to improve yourself and to achieve great things. It's the most insidious form of weakness that all of us must face and stamp out of our lives.

Everybody has some form of oppression to overcome. Everybody has obstacles, and enemies, and problems. You just have to own your shit. Overcome. Stop externalizing weaknesses and get over it. That's not to say these bankers don't fuck shit up or that we shouldn't talk about it. I am saying to not make that an excuse for anything. Certainly do not allow your enemies to define the game in which you achieve greatness.

[brewster]

This is what Nietzsche referred to as ressentiment. It's just making excuses for your failings. It's like when the alt-right guys blame the Jews and some secretive Jewish cabal for all their failings, or when feminists blame white men and the patriarchy. It's an act of externalizing who determines your successes and failures into some evil foe over whom you have little control. So therefore you have no reason to improve yourself and to achieve great things. It's the most insidious form of weakness that all of us must face and stamp out of our lives.

Everybody has some form of oppression to overcome. Everybody has obstacles, and enemies, and problems. You just have to own your shit. Overcome. Stop externalizing weaknesses and get over it. That's not to say these bankers don't fuck shit up or that we shouldn't talk about it. I am saying to not make that an excuse for anything. Certainly do not allow your enemies to define the game in which you achieve greatness.

Greatness and personal achievement are not the same thing. Greatness is in the hands of other people, it's what they think of you. Personal achievement is what you think of yourself.

[Speaker to Animals]

For instance, people keep talking all kinds of shit about the corporatacracy and whatnot. Stop fucking playing their game. Just stop. You are all free. You can do whatever the fuck you want to do. You are not the slave of corporations unless you willingly submit to it. Don't go into debt if you can at all avoid it. Build businesses and trades in the alternative economy. Figure out how to get some land and work it. Check out from that system.


Everybody is volunteering to suck Mammon's balls and then complaining about how Mammon shoves his balls down their throat.