[2751] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: the Mike Tyson rape trial
mingliu@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mingliu@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Feb 5 02:35:23 1992
[this is a follow-up to marc's & honor's posts]
I agree too. However, I often wonder if all of us are somewhat guilty
in perpetuating it.
Sometime when I happened to stop on one of the channels on TV that were
carrying sports program in a Sunday afternoon after turning on the TV,
the sports reporters seemed to speak of all these as if they were, well,
more real than real life. They spoke of the games as conflicts of
gigantic proportions, with long-term rivalries...etc, while in reality
the only gigantic things they had much effects on is the players
salaries and incomes from endorsements.
As someone who did not spent his first twelve years in the American
culture, I have come to the conclusion that sports is a additive drug to
which most Americans are addicted to, in order to escape boredom and
cruelity of everyday life. (BTW, I am using sports as in watching a
sport game, not actually participating in one.) This probably is not
too bad in the short term, but somehow I have the feeling this isn't
exactly healthy for a culture.
