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Is this really generalizable to all nations? Or is it the US treatment and perspective in play? US in general not being stellar in mental health, but also havi
by acituan 5y ago
Is this really generalizable to all nations? Or is it the US treatment and perspective in play?
US in general not being stellar in mental health, but also having a very specific cultural ground, it would surprise me if this had less to do with athleticism and more with not being adequately trained in having robust structures for meaning which can contextualize these deep-focus targets.
Many of what is described about gold medals or competition in general can be applied to extreme career or monetary focus too.
Besides, US is the land of modern superhero myths with intense projections on any avatar that can be worshipped as one. That can be a projection too much for most real people to bear. They simply can’t shoulder the lack in an entire nation’s “meaning” needs. Blind leading the blind, we devour what we want to worship because they can’t get us out of this mess either.
With Biles it was a bit different but also not, she had been on prescription amphetamines with medical use exemption, but they are completely banned in Japan so she had to be off this time. It is not up to me to question the particular diagnosis but even a slight misdosing can be very performance enhancing for amphetamines; this is a territory that should be very familiar to some US programmers or college students.
Nonetheless the effects of intense, and maybe unearned, hero projections was again we getting lost in finding our way to human excellence.