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To be fair, pro sports are an obvious waste of valuable time and attention. Personally, I’d rather actually connect with someone (or not) than use such mindles
by amazingman 8y ago
To be fair, pro sports are an obvious waste of valuable time and attention.
Personally, I’d rather actually connect with someone (or not) than use such mindlessness as a social crutch. I don’t find the extremely common phenomenon of people who don’t like sports forcing themselves to pretend they do for career-related reasons to be particularly healthy, either.
- sonnyblarney 8y ago"To be fair, pro sports are an obvious waste of valuable time and attention." Ha ha ha - this is so funny. If this comment is not satire, then I think I just made my point! I hope that readers here realize how fairly uncommon (and elitist, i.e. everyone is obviously wasting their time) this kind of statement is. Surely, a lot of people don't like pro-sports, but most are not so antagonist about it. My gosh, if you want to connect with people from anywhere, the first thing you can do is talk about sports! I only wish I cared about sports, it would be so much easier on sales calls and hanging out with regular people!
- fierro 8y agopretty sure that was a joke
- amazingman 8y ago>My gosh, if you want to connect with people from anywhere, the first thing you can do is talk about sports! Exactly the social crutch I was lamenting. This phenomenon is indeed real, and it’s pathological.
- cm2012 8y agolol man. I don't watch sports but I guess you don't play video games, watch netflix, etc.? All are equally wastes of time.
- amazingman 8y agoNetflix and video games don’t directly promote tribal bullshit, and they generally don’t infect the workplace with career-impacting social expectations. I have seen the latter in various workplaces, indeed nearly all of my prior workplaces. The former is just patently true.
- Zach_the_Lizard 8y ago> Netflix and video games don’t directly promote tribal bullshit They most certainly do, at least games anyways. Clans for example have a fairly tribal sounding name.
- amazingman 8y agoI’ll believe this when I see riots in the streets where the local clan win a championship, and/or when spectators with no relationship to the players routinely come to blows over which clan is better.
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- dev_dull 8y agoGood reading for people with this worldview (which at one time included myself): “Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports”[1] “https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/cultivated-disinterest-in-professional-sports https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/cultivated-disinterest-in-prof...
- amazingman 8y agoI come to my disdain for pro sports honestly, it’s not an intellectual virtue signal. I played baseball, basketball, and (later) American football from childhood (~5yrs old on) through high school. I think the sports themselves to be great, with the exception of some obvious problems with football. They help build so many hard and soft skills, and in their best forms they really help build character. All that said, pro sports culture is basically a social cancer for various reasons, including some that are illuminated directly in that article. The “but how will you relate to the working class” argument is weak, and gives the reader permission to use social crutches rather than useful, generalizable social tools. Indeed, the idea of “becoming” a pro sports fan to be able to socialize with a certain class of people is rather condescending.
- rayiner 8y agoThe New Yorker is an obvious waste of valuable time and attention but I don’t hold that against an entire region.
- oh_sigh 8y ago/r/iamverysmart is on reddit, not HN.