Montegriffo wrote:My point is that many of the watchers of a healthy food program will be inspired to start eating better. If some portion of the audience fails to be inspired by the message that is not the program's fault.Speaker to Animals wrote:Montegriffo wrote:
If a TV program showing how to eat healthily and providing recipes for good food makes a watcher feel hungry and they go out and buy a cheesebuger and fries should the program be removed for causing the obesity epedemic?
That literally made no sense. I am not sure what you were trying to convey here.
I am comparing commercialized American sports to the worst of our fast food. It's poison.
The purpose of sports is self-improvement and fraternity. Televised sports entertainment does the opposite in the same way that fast food does the opposite of nourish you.
If you remove all inspirational sports programs from the air is that going to increase or decrease sports participation?
The point is that the NFL is *not* designed to be healthy. In fact, it's designed to distract people from worthwhile lives.
I see the cognitive dissonance all the time in guys who associate their NFL viewership with masculinity and athleticism. I am not making this up. A huge number of American males are like this. They are fat and out of shape, but watching sports makes them feel like they are "doing something" about being males.
It's what Jack Donovan labeled the bonobo masturbation society.
My contention is that, the more active (both physically and intellectually) people become, the less they will watch that fucking television. But it's also true that the more active people become, the less pliable consumers they become. The less controllable they become. The more agency they develop. There's a reason this shit is encouraged: the same reason the Roman emperors spent fortunes on their own arena games.