03-12-2010, 11:15 AM
I'm in favour.
Big sport has been converted into mainstream TV entertainment and is now the plaything of big business and needs to be seen in that context.
Winning and losing are by-products of the show.
Take, as an example, FI motor racing. It must now always come down to the last race in Abu Dhabi. Why? Because Abu Dhabi F1 track and facilities cost £15 billion --- far too much to have the championship done and dusted before it arrives there. Simply because no one would watch the final race because it would have no bearing on the championship.
Multiply this across the spectrum.
Big sport is now a hostage of the same money disease that holds most of us in its spell. It is a deep political subject in its own right.
Big sport has been converted into mainstream TV entertainment and is now the plaything of big business and needs to be seen in that context.
Winning and losing are by-products of the show.
Take, as an example, FI motor racing. It must now always come down to the last race in Abu Dhabi. Why? Because Abu Dhabi F1 track and facilities cost £15 billion --- far too much to have the championship done and dusted before it arrives there. Simply because no one would watch the final race because it would have no bearing on the championship.
Multiply this across the spectrum.
Big sport is now a hostage of the same money disease that holds most of us in its spell. It is a deep political subject in its own right.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14