The Problems with Professional Sports
Memes about the deleterious effects.
Folksonomies: sports kinesthetic intelligence
Memes
21 OCT 2013
The Sacrifices Necessary to be a Sports Star
But it’s better for us not to know the kinds of sacrifices the professional-grade athlete has made to get so very good at one particular thing... the actual facts of the sacrifices repel us when we see them: basketball geniuses who cannot read, sprinters who dope themselves, defensive tackles who shoot up with bovine hormones until they collapse or explode. We prefer not to consider closely the shockingly vapid and primitive comments uttered by athletes in post-contest interviews or to consid...Folksonomies: sports kinesthetics
Folksonomies: sports kinesthetics
A disturbing revelation. Possibly an overstatement or anecdotal, but the idea that total devotion to kinesthetic intelligence comes at the cost of other forms of intellect makes sense.
04 JUN 2011
We value throwing a ball through a hoop more than science
That we have come so far in the enterprise of understanding nature, far enough to pry open the nucleus of the atom, to sail through interplanetary space, to lose ourselves in the Internet, and perform medical surgery with laser beams, all of this is cause for great celebration, not fear, and it's time we quit hiding all this under the covers and let these people come out of the shadows into the light of day and take accurate stock of their accomplishments and their failures and make an attemp...It's unfortunate that we live in a society where professional sports are valued over enlightening endeavors.
08 JAN 2011
The Samurai are Prohibited from Professional Sports
Gentlemen of honour, according to the old standards, rode horses, raced chariots, fought, and played competitive games of skill, and the dull, cowardly and base came in thousands to admire, and howl, and bet. The gentlemen of honour degenerated fast enough into a sort of athletic prostitute, with all the defects, all the vanity, trickery, and self-assertion of the common actor, and with even less intelligence. Our Founders made no peace with this organisation of public sports. They did not sp...Folksonomies: voluntary nobility
Folksonomies: voluntary nobility
A professional athlete is an "athletic prostitute," and the Samurai do not participate.
References
21 OCT 2013
The String Theory
Periodicals>Magazine Article: Wallace, David Foster (July 1996), The String Theory, esquire.com, Retrieved on 2013-10-21Source Material [www.esquire.com]
Folksonomies: sports
Folksonomies: sports
04 JUN 2011
Science in Hollywood
Proceedings of Meetings and Symposia>Speech: Porco, Carolyn (2009), Science in Hollywood, Atheist Alliance International, AAI 2009, Retrieved on 2011-06-04Source Material [www.youtube.com]
08 JAN 2011
A Modern Utopia
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Wells, H.G. (2004), A Modern Utopia, Project Gutenberg, New York, NY, Retrieved on 2010-11-01Source Material [www.gutenberg.org]