Have you ever noticed that an intelligent observation repeated enough becomes nothing more than stupid dogma?
"Football is just some guys and a ball on a field, you shouldn't get so worked up about it"
Fair point.
However, some time between the above comment of an enlightened soul and now, the point of the message has been lost.
"Football is stupid, its just some guys running round a field with pointless goals"
Hmm, sounds a lot like life.
"Football is stupid" How can it be, its something you do,
Is opening the window witty?
Is walking funny?
Well I guess that depends on who you are. Really its the people that make something what it is.
Are the people that play sports dumb? Well, mostly yes, that's because people are mostly dumb, but not everyone.
Football isn't any more stupid than whistling or smiling.
"pointless goals"
Pointless is a matter of perspective. You teach your kid to ride a bike, you learn to make pottery. It would be far easier to get someone else to do it, but you do it, for the satisfaction.
Yeah, kicking the ball about doesn't solve world hunger, or cure Cancer but neither does art.
Art is like sport, its just a medium. You can use it to make money, make people think, raise awareness, whatever. Art, like sport, just is.
You play football, you get fitter, you have less stress, but sometimes you get injured.
I'd rather sprain my ankle from time to time than live in a hole hiding from the big bad world.
But people say sport is dumb, because they think that's what clever people say. They are buying into some huge intelligent sub culture, where they know what is and isn't right.
Its the same sort of people that think our system is as good as it gets, because they read the alternative in Orwell.
You have two options
You either shut up about how idiotic it all is, accept that we will do it anyway, and go do your own thing.
Or kill me
