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A facebook conversation about sports:
..."Pittsburgh's a lonely town when you're the only football hater around...." (Sung to the tune of Beach Boys song "New York's a lonely town when you're the only surfer boy around......them's dangerous words ;-)...Gonna go watch dem Stillers now..... duhhh...football is the religion with the most followers...all that passion that could be diverted to cuddling, growing things, care for the worlds and each others well-being!...Just men (usually) playing with their balls (so what's new)...you are so right..what a terrible waste...in so many ways...not always..but perhaps all too often...Why didn't you drink the kool aid at the pep rally?12 hours ago ..Out in the woods with the electric kool aid...My former wife supported WAR: Women who Hate Rugby...it is almost "sinful" to speak these words in Pittsburgh...I have worried in the past about repercussions from saying these words aloud, here, where even my spiritual/artist/female housemate is downstairs screaming and cheering...but years of going to political demonstrations, smiling at the FBI camera dudes, experiencing the criminal justice system, friending dangerous people on FB has given me the courage to speak up on this, most undeservably sacred topic...my popularity, however, has plummeted...I feel the same way, sigh. i wear the jersey and pretend and wait for openings in conversation to drop crumbs of reality.. thats all they can handle at a time at this point anyway. Football isnt any fun any more for me...you wear the jersey?? What are you so afraid of? Oh yeah, being ostracized, I forgot. We must start a movement! Seriously, this town is so depressing when the Steelers play, there is no where to go to hide from it, and don't try to watch news for days (all year, really)... they have jersey day at work, i just started, i am very weird and trying to fit in. its not working anyway...Many in this culture have been brain washed into caring deeply about something that has no real consequence in our day to day life. The game reinforces the notion of competition and the war mentality while robbing people of real interaction that may actually matter...Steelers football is very tribal. we get colors and songs and a reason to get drunk and yell at people wearing different colors singing different songs, especially if its cleveland or baltimore. The men get to have fist fights up and down carson and vent their frustration and get to act macho and manly and everthing around it is commercialized and profiting off of the stupidity, like doritos doesnt make browns chips in ohio and pepsi doesnt care who wins the game stupid. Its a really nice jersey, and palamalu was my favorite, its just not the same anymore. football is only entertainment when your asleep...its just like ancient rome, there are slaves and gladiators, and both are nothing to the emperor...what you just said, and also above posts about wasted time, diverted good energy, misplaced enthusiasm...that is all so true, and a real symptom of our society's ills. The misplaced monetary energy is also huge, and the corruption of that, via gambling, steroid use, makes it all so sceptical anyway. Mobsters are all over those outcomes. And then the crumpled broken bodies...and they start breaking up as small children to aspire to billiondollar macho fame. Uh-oh, you got me started. I was just going to complain about feeling like a "lonely surfer boy" but underneath I am like a volcano of complaint about this industry and its cheerleaders...my mom gave it to me for christmas...The money that goes into diverting our attention into sports when I am certain the arts would enrich our lives in much more meaningful and beneficial ways is scary. It is truly about control...You do not want a society of free thinkers able to think abstractly and question the world and entertain themselves without a commercial exchange and rules.......They want us sitting, watching, and consuming...we cross-posted and I hadn't yet read your comments about tribalism, slaves and gladiators, but you are so right about that aspect of it too. Like street gangs, I kind of understand the historic aspect of the identification, group mentality, colors...our society too quickly became unmoored from earlier clannish, familial, geographic ties...and this vacuum opened up and is now being filled with junk..... the men running things know 3000% more psychology than the average joe. its like stomping on kittens easy for them and hilarious on top of that. I read some where that it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a sick society. what a mad house carnival we are living in...your popularity may have plummeted with some, but it went up with others. I'm with you, got an article for the Hazelwood Homepage (I write a regular column) cut by the exec dir because i said the same type of thing. We're wasting precious time w/sports in a world being destroyed as the new age yearns to be. Didn't catch what you meant by "... Mobsters are all over those outcomes. And then the crumpled broken bodies...and they start breaking up as small children to aspire to billiondollar macho fame..."
..."Pittsburgh's a lonely town when you're the only football hater around...." (Sung to the tune of Beach Boys song "New York's a lonely town when you're the only surfer boy around......them's dangerous words ;-)...Gonna go watch dem Stillers now..... duhhh...football is the religion with the most followers...all that passion that could be diverted to cuddling, growing things, care for the worlds and each others well-being!...Just men (usually) playing with their balls (so what's new)...you are so right..what a terrible waste...in so many ways...not always..but perhaps all too often...Why didn't you drink the kool aid at the pep rally?12 hours ago ..Out in the woods with the electric kool aid...My former wife supported WAR: Women who Hate Rugby...it is almost "sinful" to speak these words in Pittsburgh...I have worried in the past about repercussions from saying these words aloud, here, where even my spiritual/artist/female housemate is downstairs screaming and cheering...but years of going to political demonstrations, smiling at the FBI camera dudes, experiencing the criminal justice system, friending dangerous people on FB has given me the courage to speak up on this, most undeservably sacred topic...my popularity, however, has plummeted...I feel the same way, sigh. i wear the jersey and pretend and wait for openings in conversation to drop crumbs of reality.. thats all they can handle at a time at this point anyway. Football isnt any fun any more for me...you wear the jersey?? What are you so afraid of? Oh yeah, being ostracized, I forgot. We must start a movement! Seriously, this town is so depressing when the Steelers play, there is no where to go to hide from it, and don't try to watch news for days (all year, really)... they have jersey day at work, i just started, i am very weird and trying to fit in. its not working anyway...Many in this culture have been brain washed into caring deeply about something that has no real consequence in our day to day life. The game reinforces the notion of competition and the war mentality while robbing people of real interaction that may actually matter...Steelers football is very tribal. we get colors and songs and a reason to get drunk and yell at people wearing different colors singing different songs, especially if its cleveland or baltimore. The men get to have fist fights up and down carson and vent their frustration and get to act macho and manly and everthing around it is commercialized and profiting off of the stupidity, like doritos doesnt make browns chips in ohio and pepsi doesnt care who wins the game stupid. Its a really nice jersey, and palamalu was my favorite, its just not the same anymore. football is only entertainment when your asleep...its just like ancient rome, there are slaves and gladiators, and both are nothing to the emperor...what you just said, and also above posts about wasted time, diverted good energy, misplaced enthusiasm...that is all so true, and a real symptom of our society's ills. The misplaced monetary energy is also huge, and the corruption of that, via gambling, steroid use, makes it all so sceptical anyway. Mobsters are all over those outcomes. And then the crumpled broken bodies...and they start breaking up as small children to aspire to billiondollar macho fame. Uh-oh, you got me started. I was just going to complain about feeling like a "lonely surfer boy" but underneath I am like a volcano of complaint about this industry and its cheerleaders...my mom gave it to me for christmas...The money that goes into diverting our attention into sports when I am certain the arts would enrich our lives in much more meaningful and beneficial ways is scary. It is truly about control...You do not want a society of free thinkers able to think abstractly and question the world and entertain themselves without a commercial exchange and rules.......They want us sitting, watching, and consuming...we cross-posted and I hadn't yet read your comments about tribalism, slaves and gladiators, but you are so right about that aspect of it too. Like street gangs, I kind of understand the historic aspect of the identification, group mentality, colors...our society too quickly became unmoored from earlier clannish, familial, geographic ties...and this vacuum opened up and is now being filled with junk..... the men running things know 3000% more psychology than the average joe. its like stomping on kittens easy for them and hilarious on top of that. I read some where that it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a sick society. what a mad house carnival we are living in...your popularity may have plummeted with some, but it went up with others. I'm with you, got an article for the Hazelwood Homepage (I write a regular column) cut by the exec dir because i said the same type of thing. We're wasting precious time w/sports in a world being destroyed as the new age yearns to be. Didn't catch what you meant by "... Mobsters are all over those outcomes. And then the crumpled broken bodies...and they start breaking up as small children to aspire to billiondollar macho fame..."
posted by St. Jim the Composter at 8:00 AM
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God job in describing my life in Pittsburgh ,and why I had to move away quickly!
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