People are weird. Think
about this for a minute. We have teams play against each other and eventually
wind up with this “Be All, End All” battle between the best at a stadium that
has thousands of police officers, FBI, Homeland Security etc. We spend millions on doing the event, we
charge millions for advertisers and ticket buyers. People get so worked up about the outcome
that they actually fight with each other over allegiance to a particular team. Sometimes they even try to kill each other.
Now when you take time to consider all this, what does it
look like a model of sanitized and scoped down in size? Warfare. Pure and simple, it is a substitute for
warfare. Even our Olympic Games are long
standing traditional attempts at substitutes for battles between countries (in
a perceived peaceful manner usually) about who is the best and holds dominance!
It seems everything is a battle for supremacy. Even if you play chess with your buddy, it’s
a battle. What is it about us that
creates that need that has persisted throughout all of known time? When we look at us individually, do we
exhibit the same behavior. Aren’t we all
dealing with ego issues about how good we are.
Let’s face it, we are centered on “self” and we transfer ego based
thinking to our religions and our patriotism and our football teams.
Is it all good? What would
an “Other” based world look like?
Now I’m not really suggesting we give up chess or even
football, but I am wondering if the world championship were one of “who gave
the most of themselves to help others” and the name was kept anonymous until
the person was dead, how would that change the world we know.
What do you think?
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