[ SECRET POST #4356 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4356 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Babylon 5 (episode Comes the Inquisitor)]


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15 [WARNING for discussion of suicide]

[2004 adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's North & South]













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Comments

Re: What are some stupid things people get too worked up over?

[(Anonymous)]

Sports. I'll never understand the whole rioting because our team won/lost a game, and even less the beating up/killing someone because they are fans of the "wrong" team.

Re: What are some stupid things people get too worked up over?

[(Anonymous)]

IA that people get too worked up about it, but it's usually because sports team loyalties are a stand-in for some other kind of identity or loyalty - whether it's ethnic, or regional, or political - or some other, underlying issue.

To quote CLR James: " I am equally certain that in those years social and political passions, denied normal outlets, expressed themselves so fiercely in cricket (and other games) precisely because they were games... The British tradition soaked deep into me was that when you entered the sporting arena you left behind you the sordid compromises of everyday existence. Yet for us to do that we would have had to divest ourselves of our skins... Nor could the local population see it otherwise. The class and racial rivalries were too intense. They could be fought out without violence or much lost except pride and honour. Thus the cricket field was a stage on which selected individuals played representative roles which were charged with social significance."

Re: What are some stupid things people get too worked up over?

[(Anonymous)]

You do realize that quote mentions "They could be fought out without violence", when the anon you are answering to is speaking about rioting, beating up people and murder, right? Just felt like someone should point that out.

Re: What are some stupid things people get too worked up over?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. It says that in the context of discussing the process by which sports take on social significance and identifications in the first place - part of the appeal is that the sports field is supposed to be non-violent. Unfortunately, that doesn't stop sports from becoming violent later on, once they're embedded in those social conflicts.

Re: What are some stupid things people get too worked up over?

[(Anonymous)]

YOU WILL SUFFER HUMILIATION WHEN THE SPORTS TEAM FROM MY AREA DEFEATS THE SPORTS TEAM FROM YOUR AREA