Category: Sport
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Stupor Bowl LIX
Two reasons to watch: Trump will be there; DOGE will run commercials. For twelve reasons not to watch see here. You may enjoy a thoughtful rant of mine from 2016, Stupor Bowl or Super Bore? Elon Musk on DOGE.
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The Double Denial by the ‘Woke’
It is not unreasonable to maintain that there is no God and that nature alone exists. But suppose you take it a step further and deny nature as well. Then you are in the precincts of 'woke' lunacy. Call it the Double Denial. One way to deny nature is by denying that the biotic underpins…
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The Stupor Bowl is a Super Bore
Panem et circenses! I am no fan of spectator sports. We have too many sports spectators and too many overpaid* professional louts. I preach the People's Sports, despite the leftish ring of that. Remove your sorry tail from the couch of sloth and start a softball league with your friends and neighbors. Play volley ball…
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Martin Heidegger on Muhammad Ali
Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes last night gushed over the late boxer as a "transcendent" specimen of humanity. Her over-the-top performance put me in mind of what I call the 'Pincers Passage' in Heidegger's 1935 lecture, Introduction to Metaphysics (tr. Ralph Manheim, Doubleday 1961, p. 31, emphasis added. This Europe, in its ruinous blindness forever…
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Stupor Bowl or Super Bore?
Time for my annual Super Bowl Sunday rant. But perhaps I should not be so harsh on the masses who need their panem et circenses to keep them distracted from matters of moment, both secular and spiritual. The Latin could be very loosely translated as 'food stamps and football.' I won't be watching the game.…
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5 K or Marathon: Which is Harder?
Which is harder, to run 3.1 miles or 26.2? They are equally hard for the runner who runs right. The agony and the ecstasy at the end of a race run right is the same whether induced by 42.2 km of LSD or 5 km of POT. Above, I am approaching the final stretch of…
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Stupor Bowl Sunday
No need to repeat myself. I said it all last year.
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Adorno on the Ambiguity of Sport
Theodor W. Adorno, "Education After Auschwitz" in Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords (Columbia UP, 1998, tr. Pickford, pp. 196-197): Sport is ambiguous. On the one hand, it can have an anti-barbaric and anti-sadistic effect by means of fair play [Adorno employs the English phrase], a spirit of chivalry, and consideration for the weak. On the…