Re:Sportssuck.com, the "I hate sports" club
by hugh3 on Friday June 18, 2010 @01:33PM
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People need to accept that not every form of entertainment is intended for them. Adopting, for the moment, Brave New World-type classification, some forms of entertainment are aimed at alphas and betas, while others are aimed more at deltas and epsilons. For an alpha to complain about the stupidity of the entertainment aimed at epsilons, or an epsilon to complain about the incomprehensibility of the entertainment aimed at alphas, is unseemly; he should instead be glad that people are producing entertainment which he does enjoy.
If you're out there complaining about team sports, or American Idol, or Tyler Perry movies, or Justin Bieber (whoever he is) then you're either (a) missing the point, or (b) trying to engage in status signalling that you're not the intellectual demographic at which these things are aimed. However, by making such a signal you imply that you're worried about being confused with such people, which is in itself a negative status signal.
So in conclusion, complaining about forms of entertainment that you don't enjoy is an enormous waste of time and makes you look bad.
If you're out there complaining about team sports, or American Idol, or Tyler Perry movies, or Justin Bieber (whoever he is) then you're either (a) missing the point, or (b) trying to engage in status signalling that you're not the intellectual demographic at which these things are aimed. However, by making such a signal you imply that you're worried about being confused with such people, which is in itself a negative status signal.
So in conclusion, complaining about forms of entertainment that you don't enjoy is an enormous waste of time and makes you look bad.