Re:Why Sports Are A Sad and Dangerous Waste of Time
by CocaKoala on Sunday March 30, 2014 @08:41PM
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Honestly, I feel like the amount of mindshare given over to sports pales in comparison to the amount of mindshare given over to movie stars, musicians, and celebrities. I only found out about the Seahawks and their success because I grew up in Seattle and made an effort to see how they were doing. I don't listen to Miley Cyrus at all, but couldn't help learning how everybody in the world felt about her performance at the VMAs. Why isn't the article about that?
The problem is that people are just committing far too much mindshare to sports these days. ESPN has three channels devoted pretty much to just talking about sports, in great detail, including gossip, drama, recaps, minutia, etc.
People, and let's be honest, mostly men, sit there consuming this stuff all day, reading about it online, talking about it with friends, watching it in the evenings, playing fantasy sports...
Past a certain point it goes beyond entertainment and into the realm of tribalism. There's just far too much emotional and mental investment into this stuff.