[ExI] memory

[William Flynn Wallace]

Spike is not the only guilty person here:  others have referred to people
liking to play sports, attend games, and so on, as idiots  brain dead, and
worse.

I could probably come up with some Freudian reasons for these feelings, but
would like to hear from the people who hold them.  I have not seen any
other groups of people put down like this, who have different likes in
movies or books or just anything.  Only sports.

It happens to be true:  people who are very against, even violently against
homosexuality, experience more penile engorgement than other heterosexuals,
as measured by Penile plethysmography (PPG) or phallometry when viewing
homosexual acts, compared to other heterosexuals.  Uhoh!

 So people who don't just ignore sports, but who have to go out of their
way to put down sports fans, may have something in their unconscious they
may not like at all.  Secret feelings of inadequacy re sports, perhaps?
Fox and grapes?

Protesting too much, like Lear's daughters, means the opposite, right?
Reaction formations.  "I am hetero all the way.  Nobody is more hetero than
me!"

bill w

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:11 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *John Clark via extropy-chat
> *Sent:* Friday, March 13, 2020 5:25 AM
> *To:* ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> *Cc:* John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] memory
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> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 7:29 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> > Does anyone remember our country closing so many things, college and
> pro sports, even Disneyland, without going all the way back to WWII?
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> Even during WWII there was college sporting events and Broadway still had
> plays, they closed down a lot of stuff during the 1918 flu epidemic
> although not as many as they should have. Or at least that's what I read in
> books, I don't actually remember it, I was just a kid in 1918.
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> John K Clark
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> Just a kid in 1918: me too!  I have fond memories of Jolson’s experiments
> with the talkies.
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> The hit the stock market is taking right now caused me to realize how much
> of the US economy is tied somehow to entertainment.  I am hetero to the
> core (as far as I know) but don’t follow sports and never have.  The
> canceled seasons impacted me not one bit, but to hear the radio yesterday
> one would think the apocalypse is upon us and we are the wretched sinners
> facing the wrath of a vengeful deity.  Sheesh, it’s a gaddam BALL GAME fer
> cryin out loud.  Grown men hurling an orb thru an elevated hoop to the wild
> cheering of brain-dead throngs.
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> Well I flatly refuse to be a throng.  But it does bring up a question: if
> wildly-cheering throngs are crowds, is a throng one person in that crowd or
> can a throng be a crowd, and if the latter, what is one person in the
> crowd?  A microthrong?  And if what if… one is part of the faceless masses,
> but he looks in the mirror and discovers one has an actual face?  The mind
> boggles.
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> I think I recall a Star Trek episode where Kirk and crew visited a planet
> where they had solved every problem, resolved every conflict, and the only
> thing they had left to do was play and entertain each other.  The
> Enterprise crew didn’t like it: not enough conflict.  In modern society we
> create artificial conflict by setting up a terrain-acquisition arena and
> let our best recreational warriors battle it out while we watch.  Sheesh
> what a world.
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