Are sports the opium of the masses? Or just boring?

What are we as people SUPPOSED to be doing, then?

All public events thats not a symposium of scientists discussing betterment of mankind is considered substandard.

Anything above living in a cabin with no power or running water and reading next to candlelight, any standard of living above that is too plentiful and wasteful to be recommended

Since church is lessening in importance, it hasnt been replaced by any other regularly occurring practical community gathering that brings people together.

Technology can do the work that humans used to be the only performer of. Thereby giving humans more TIME for, anything else. (Though remember technology also devolves humans)

Medicine enables everyone to live longer. To stick around and do more of the recommended absolutely nothing.

All that leaves is the TV. Now the internet. Some mediums allow the proliferation of stupidity to travel faster than others.

Though they also CAN generate something POSITIVE. Total abolishment of distractions is the most ideal. However its impractical on the largest scale. I'm agreeing more with that first guy that says we need to take CHARGE of sports, and the mediums that broadcast it. Rather than letting the negative aspects of them win out.

 

Technology certainly isn't all bad. Blindly relying upon it and its 'experts' is a slippery slope into an unknown abyss. In Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' he forewarned us of the dangers of blindly following man-made technology. A permanent residence in a state of infantilism. He also made it clear that the human mind can defeat technology if it is running at full capacity (i.e. a life or death situation).

 

says the guy posting on a sports message board.

 

This is on point with what I was going to say. PLAYING sports can be a proxy through which we teach the above social values.

WATCHING pro sports is really nothing more than entertainment (and a business for those playing), but people like to project a lot of the same teaching values on to pro sports and pro athletes, though they probably don't exist by-and-large. You can see a lot of this playing out in the Lebron James free agency, and that fact that some people still believe athletes are/should be role models.