UK - Should sport ban cannabis?

[psood0nym]

It's an interesting question what people would do with their time and energies if the arena system and sports mass media didn't exist. What other genre of entertainment could substitute for its loss? There is none. The reason there is none is because the other things that use the kind of energy sports media created fandom uses aren't passive entertainment. They're activities. If it didn't exist most people wouldn't just spend more time being entertained by other media, they'd do new large scale things with their lives and each other, or more plausibly, many smaller communal things (block parties, fundraisers, charitable events, community sports leagues, the list goes on and on), in order to feed the same need for community social cohesion with a shared cause that National sports fandom supplies them now. National sports fandom is a corporate-cultural parasite feeding off of regional community life that mass society has freely created for itself. There's no laws that need to be changed or political movements that need to happen, people just need to see, or rather they need to be made to see, the obvious: that there's better things to do for ourselves and each other than go watch a bunch of millionaire athletes we don't know and have absolutely no tangible association with chase after balls all day as though that were a good or responsible way to live life. For the most part what a sports "fan" is concerned with shouldn't extend beyond what they can realistically influence as individuals or small groups. Once the concern is at the city wide, state, or national level how can that concern realistically translate to influence? An exception would be the Olympics, but the Olympics only happen every two years, they're not being broadcast for the better part of waking life like some form or another of national sports is.

 

[the toad]

Back beforeprofessional sports and broadcasting, peopletended toget together at community gatherings and eat and drink and dance... perhaps spend that time actually doing something for self improvement instead of sitting in a chair and living vicariously thru "your" team... imagine ivthe average sports fan practiced the sport as much asthey sat around watching others do it... its like listening to music and claiming your part of the musi industry lmao..

 

[psood0nym]

Think about going to the average event of any kind with strangers or lesser known associates -- this could be a bus stop, a bar, the company break room, a line, etc. On average, what topic are the largest number of men, and a sizable chunk of women, using as an icebreaker to get to know each other? National sports. What if they were discussing some other shared interest at a smaller scale that fulfilled the same need for community cohesion with a shared sense of purpose as national sports? Might such a set of focused circumstances be more likely to result in doing something of consequence for each others lives rather than our current set, which have us bantering statistics and stories about state or national level star icons to each other that connect with our mutual lives in no tangible way, and might that be a good thing? The answer is yes, stupid. So why do we pretend like the national sports culture we are complicit with isn't the stupid thing it is? Because we're all doing it already, that's why.