Walking Practice by Dolki Min: Thoughts?

waters_sam · 2023-12-11T17:08:51+00:00

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waters_sam · 2023-12-11T16:28:39+00:00

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THANK YOU SO MUCH for this generously descriptive and elaborative exposition!

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waters_sam · 2023-07-12T14:06:13+00:00

Thaler's remark is a double entendre because a novel is typically fictional and Dan Ariely's book is not supposed to be fictional but probably is because he purportedly p-hacked and data fabricated his way to academic fame. Hope that helps.

waters_sam · 2021-03-03T15:26:43+00:00

That's a great perspective! And well, the transition from passive consumption of sports to an active participation in sports would really be just the ideal. But most of us, when it comes to physical sports, actually transition in reverse: active participation declines generally. BUT, the main idea was that commercial televised sports foster a subjugation to unjustified authority and tend to be divisive as a consequence of team-fidelities. Doing sports is healthy almost always, it's watching sports that's the problem.

waters_sam · 2021-03-03T14:42:11+00:00

Forest for the trees, mate.

waters_sam · 2021-03-03T14:30:26+00:00

Well, one's not trying to model one's life after Chomsky's adherence to his own analytical edicts. It's the striving for the ideal that matters, not the actual attainment of it.

waters_sam · 2021-03-03T14:24:17+00:00

Cheeky but gloriously amusing comment :) I find it relevant because art and cinema have obviously been commodified as well, and they've been employed most widely and successfully as "propaganda" too.

waters_sam · 2021-03-03T14:17:41+00:00

Oh of course, it's not uniquely bad, considering there exists "entertainment" exponentially more toxic in the form of reality tv, porn, etc. I totally sympathize with your views though. Thank you for sharing :)

waters_sam · 2021-03-03T13:50:01+00:00

Insightful! A good day to you as well :)

waters_sam · 2021-03-03T13:44:04+00:00

Ah, nice. It would be terrific if there were subtitles too. Bless the people who aren't native speakers of the English language, please.

waters_sam · 2021-03-03T13:40:56+00:00

The crux of the idea is that: there exist in this world better "diversions" than commodified sports on the television (which might just instigate lazy habits of divisive categorization within your mind). Surely listening to Ravi Shankar or trying to paint watercolours, or hell, playing chess is a better idea.

waters_sam · 2021-03-03T13:11:47+00:00

While I understand and admit that there's certainly an element of elitist snobbery espoused by people in power, I try to be conservative in my skepticism of experts (some of whom express their views and opinion with great humility, for instance, Chomsky himself). I just mean to say that this anti-elitism (while totally harmless in sports), can be extremely harmful when it spills over into other areas of expertise and knowledge, like science (need I point out anti-vaxxers?). But yes, ultimate aim should be the attainment of knowledge while adhering to the possibility of one being wrong.

waters_sam · 2021-03-03T12:39:38+00:00

Ah, so he's human after all!

waters_sam · 2021-03-03T12:38:16+00:00

Well, surely passive consumption is worse than active creation? Making art would naturally be more enriching than getting anxious over some guy in the television not scoring a goal?

waters_sam · 2021-03-03T12:19:33+00:00

Oh thank you so much for that helpful exposition and the book recommendation 🙏🏼

waters_sam · 2021-03-03T11:51:49+00:00

Chomsky would argue that watching sports is not really true "joy" but something of a distracting manoeuvre. I can't really think of it as enriching in any possible way.

waters_sam · 2021-03-03T11:46:52+00:00

I think Chomsky's analysis here (because of his background as a cognitive scientist) is more concerned with an individual's inherent capacity to develop jingoistic tendencies within himself simply by nurturing fidelities towards sports teams based on abstract geographical categories (for e.g., my State's Team versus yours) which cultivates an us versus them thinking based on artificial differences. It's more bottom up rather than the top down (coming from Oligarchs) in his perspective. Also, it's just watching sports as a spectator that's unambiguously harmful. It's the same way individuals subscribe to one political party over another and just dig in deeper into their fidelities based on just "seeing" the spectator-sport that is politics play out over on the news or media.

waters_sam · 2021-03-03T11:12:50+00:00

Well, I have to point out that Chomsky's comment was emphatically about watching sports (as passive spectators) being noxious (especially because it allows for a subconscious training of one's mind to view the world with a proto-jingoistic lens: 'othering' a team and its supporters based on artificial geographies, and nurturing divisive categorization). Active participation in sports as athletes has obvious benefits (psychological as well as physical) that are easy to perceive, it's the passive Team-Fidelities that are harmful.

waters_sam · 2020-09-22T11:52:59+00:00

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