Gotta say, I never really cared or knew much about surfing, but I always still kept an idea of it in my head that it was this solitary, cool, independent, zen-m

Gotta say, I never really cared or knew much about surfing, but I always still kept an idea of it in my head that it was this solitary, cool, independent, zen-minded thing. This article shatters that illusion into a million pieces. Come to find out it's just another "sport," with everybody obsessing over $$$gear, and grasping for their place in some kind of hierarchy that has doctrinaire douchebags at the top, and way too many clumsy ignorant pretenders at the bottom. You know, like cycling. Which I actually do care and know about, but I avoid "cyclists" like the plague so I can maintain my illusion that it's this solitary, cool, independent, zen-minded thing. (It is when I do it.) So of course in hindsight I'm not sure why or how I was surprised by any of this. Humans ruin everything.