<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">It happens to be true: people who are very against, even violently against homosexuality, experience more penile engorgement than other heterosexuals, as measured by <span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(82,86,90);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif">Penile plethysmography</span><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"> (PPG) or phallometry when viewing homosexual acts, compared to other heterosexuals. Uhoh!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif">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? </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif">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!" </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif">bill w</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:11 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-4237700131686783673WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 13, 2020 5:25 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] memory<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 7:29 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-m_-4237700131686783673gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Does anyone remember our country closing so many things, college and pro sports, even Disneyland, without going all the way back to WWII?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-m_-4237700131686783673gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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.</span></span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-m_-4237700131686783673gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">John K Clark <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Just a kid in 1918: me too! I have fond memories of Jolson’s experiments with the talkies.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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