Guest Post by The Zman
For months now, the more cynical have suggested the lock downs will continue into the fall, as the hysteria has become something of a religion. The facts on the ground are useful to the panic party in so far as they can be used to support the idea that this plague is a curse sent from nature because of Trump. They hope the self-inflicted suffering will purge the lands of orange come November. Word now comes that they plan to cancel college football this week.
There’s no public health reason for cancelling college sports this fall or for keeping the kids of campus, which many colleges are doing. Many colleges will be on-line only this fall, meaning it will be a full year of virtual learning for their students. It was not that long ago when these very same colleges said on-line learning was terrible. Students needed personal interaction with their teachers and fellow students. Like so much that comes from the Left, that was true only while it was useful.
As far as college football, the plan was to minimize attendance at the games and make sure the players were tested on a daily basis. The only thing missing from the regime was daily dips into vats of hand sanitizer. Despite it all, the people who run big time college sports have been bullied into shutting down. This should put to rest that the people behind this stuff are motivated by money or power. They are tossing away billions and their grip on millions of people’s attention.
Sport has always been a window into what lies behind the general culture. In this case, the plight of sport reflects what is happening in society as a whole. The efforts to restart professional baseball, basketball and hockey have been a disaster, because the stripped-down versions lack essential ingredients. Like everything else about a big complicated society, sport evolved over time to work a certain way. Rebooting it without essential elements like a live audience does not work.
The people running the NBA and NHL are a reflection of the people running the country as a whole. They have the problem all outsiders have, in that they see the parts of society and can navigate through them, but they can’t see the invisible bonds that hold those parts in relation to one another. Their scheme to restart their respective sports made sense to them on paper, but to the rest of us it is like trying to impose the metric system or soccer. It’s alien and weird.
There’s also the social aspect to the popularity of sports. Football became the dominant sport because it is the best television sport. It was the one thing people could talk about at the office with no problems. It’s why so many companies encouraged their people to sport the colors of the hometown team on casual Friday. The popularity of sports like football had as much to do with their place in the social fabric as their popularity as an entertainment product. Big time sports fill a social niche.
The people in charge predicted people were suffering from a form of phantom limb syndrome and that the return of any sports would be a success. Instead, baseball, basketball and hockey are not drawing much interest. People moved on in the short time those sports were off the air. Football will most likely face the same fate if it goes dark this autumn. Sports passion is like a fire. It requires constant tending and fuel in order to keep burning. Once it goes out, it stays out.
What’s happening with sports also puts to bed the notion that the people in charge are playing 4-D chess in order to maintain their power. Keeping white people locked into sports watching was always about crowd control. Nowhere is egalitarianism and anti-racism sold harder to more white people than at a sporting event. It is the one place where multiculturalism appears to work. Take that away and normal white people are left to watch white radicals and black activists riot in the cities.
What lies ahead for sports entertainment, maybe all big-time entertainment, is what small business is facing right now. Every business has a cost structure that reflects its revenue stream. Seasonal business has seasonable const structures. Small business has low cost structures. Global sport has a cost structure that requires millions to spend billions every year. Suddenly, owning a big fancy sports arena is not such a great idea in a world where large gatherings are prohibited.
There is a general assumption that the Covid stuff comes to an end with either the defeat of Trump in November or one final tantrum in January if he wins. At that point, the practical reality of life will force this charade to come to an end. That’s true, most likely, for this phase of the process. Economic necessity will force the people in charge to relent or civil unrest will force it. Unless this is really a simulation and the base code has been altered, this cannot continue much longer.
That’s just the end of this phase. The breaking of the sports entertainment model will have far reaching consequences. Tens of millions of people will fill in the gaps left by tailgates, trips to the alma mater, weekend parties glued to the television and billions spent on sports entertainment. All of a sudden, the sort of liberal guy you used to talk to about the football team is not a guy you talk to at all. Instead of talking to the conservative guy about sports, you talk about other stuff.
Even the most basic human societies are a highly complex web of interpersonal relationships that operate within a hard to define thing we call culture. A big diverse country like America has a degree of complexity that we cannot comprehend, other than to have the wisdom to accept that reality. The people in charge have thrown sand in all the gears of the machinery, machinery that has allowed them to rise to the top of the social hierarchy. Sports will soon be the least of their problems.
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Best part of college and all school online is maybe people will record their liberal brainwashing and we evict some communist from their teaching positions.
>>>we evict some communist from their teaching positions.
As far as I know, “teaching communism” isn’t actually illegal, at least in most US jurisdictions. Unfortunately, this means that getting rid of communist teachers will have to be based on non-teaching activities by the same individuals (e.g. rioting). Or accomplished through extra-legal means.
Cleaning up the educational establishment will either take decades of diligent prosecutions, or it will take violence.
Here in my little town in Northeastern Kentucky, we’re all trying to digest the news that our Democratic Communist Governor Andy Beshear announced at 3:40 P.M. yesterday that the schools “should stay closed until September 28.”
All of the schools were supposed to open around August 27. He said it was because “more people are catching The Virus”.
I still know of NO ONE who has ever had this “Virus”, and am getting into heated discussions with the fucktards who all think we’re about to die.
Andy won only because thanks to the Democrats the fucking Libertarians got on the ballot and the teachers union went all in for him
He gets less than 50% of the vote and Governs like he won a super majority mandate
The legislature needs to impeach and remove him for violating the State Constitution
If you meet a Libertarian, beat him. He will know why.
The elites are playing chess, and they seem to be playing it fairly well.
This entire hysteria has caused major damage to their position. Education and the workplace have always been central pillars of statist philosophy.
Nonetheless, they’ve merely traded a rook and a bishop for the queen.
What is that queen? The constitution. Rule of law. The idea that the elites must follow some sort of legal principle in executing their position. They’ve engineered an environment wherein not only can they freely flout the constitution, separation of powers, and etc., but they have 70+% support in doing so. Giving up a few pillars to end all legal opposition to their rule is not a bad trade.
Making Trump objectively the worst presidency since at least Nixon is just a nice bonus.
Just remember, a game isn’t a real game until the shooting starts. And, the peons are the ones who are buying up all of the guns and ammunition.
Some people are not good losers and are known to turn over the board when it appears they are going to lose. My guess is the board will be in the air in a couple of months and the pieces scattered all over the place.
Did anyone but me watch the PGA championship this weekend? If you did you were bombarded by a bunch of blacks whining about the lack of diversity in golf and how they had been mistreated unfairly in the past and present.
Seeing only 13% of the population is black, it would seems that golf has about that ratio of black players. I guess most people are too stupid to make the assumption that skin color isn’t what keeps blacks from playing golf. It’s the same reason that lots of people don’t play golf – it’s an expensive sport with massive outlay just to get started. Golf clubs, shoes, bags, balls and gloves are not cheap. That’s before you get to the course and start forking out green fees.
But why are the not the same judgments made about basketball? Has anyone looked at the NBA? I’m not complaining because most of the players are black. I assume reasonably that they are black because they are the best at the sport. And basketball is much more accessible to the average person that golf. You don’t even need to own a ball; someone at a pickup game will have one. No other special equipment is needed except a hoop and those used to be available at parks all over the country. Well that is until all the power mongers removed them to keep kids from enjoying life and getting exercise.
I never played golf as a kid. My family couldn’t enjoy such luxuries and a golf course was far from walking distance. Do I think I was treated unfairly? Heck no. I realized years ago that life wasn’t fair. And 50 years ago in western North Carolina no one gave a hoot if I had the opportunity to play what was viewed as a rich white mans’ game. It never occurred to me to whine about what I considered a fact of life.
It would be an act of stupidity in this day and age to suggest that there aren’t that many black golfers because blacks just aren’t that good at golf. However, it was perfectly acceptable to make a movie saying that white men can’t jump. I don’t watch hockey (because I don’t understand it), but does professional hockey get bombarded because there aren’t enough black hockey players? Maybe, like me, they just can’t ice skate. What a concept!
Any young black people that just happened to catch the golf tournament this past weekend will take away how unfair life is and how they have been denied the opportunity to play golf. I wonder if young white or Asians will take away the same thoughts. I doubt it. The PGA was too busy virtue signaling their support for BLM or something to notice they are encouraging more black people to get another ugly chip on their shoulder. And that will help them how in the future?
I seldom watch television. But when I do on occasion, I am sick and tired of being bombarded about what a terrible person I am because I happened to have been born white. It’s bad enough that we have to endure the fear mongering by the media and the lying of the politicians, now we have to endure sermons about how unfair life is to blacks in sports. Why is just too much to ask that people accept that life is unfair, however in sports, usually the cream rises to the top? And seeing all the very rich athletes in this country, of all color, could we stop this nonsense about how unfair it all is?
“And that will help them how in the future?”
The squeaky wheel gets the grease. That’s how.
The Day of Big Money Sports is about over. People are slowly figuring out that the people who profit off of it really hate their guts, and that they are the hand maidens of whatever Cabal that runs everything.
Professional College Athletics does not detract from Academics, it destroys it.
There’s nothing at all wrong with “club sports” at colleges and universities, but when a university Athletic Director is pulling down 3 million bucks per year, his university affiliation has become a sick joke. And the less said about the alumni, the better.