“All avenues of life are marked with/ an unsustainable amount of corruption” - that’s what is so depressing because it is so insidious. From governments & entities & agencies & departments & corporations that are ostensibly created to serve citizens’ best interests, we find greed & hatred for those they all are meant to serve. It’s now in our “medicine”, the air we breathe, food we eat, liquids we drink, money w/ virtually no value, rules/regs/laws on which we were not consulted & did not agree. Honor, integrity, morality, courage, charity, common sense, rationality & good will towards men are sorely lacking.
Every bit of it is surely unsustainable, but because the tentacles are in every aspect of our lives, what happens when the lines are finally crossed?
Very clearly stated and, alas, at least with respect to professional football, probably irrefutable. I share too your concern about the template this cheating, and worse the official/media response to it, provides to our wider society – and not just young footballers.
It does seem, then, as if we are living in a golden age for cheats and liars. However, I wonder if things are not quite as bad in our own day-to-day world? That is to say, I think that we (the collective ordinary persons) are taking the media-presented world of scoundrels and sociopaths we see in sport and politics and conflating it with our own domestic world to make an average in our minds that does not (accepting the usual caveats) reflect our daily reality. Although I concede that believing our world to be worse than it is, helps to make it so. And for this reason alone we should strive to consciously balance the cheating and sociopathy we see presented by our (their) media with a kinder reality we witness daily.
By way of example, I don’t personally know anyone who tricks and cheats their way through their daily life. Compared to the football game you referred to I must live in the company of angels.
I am not actually disagreeing with your analysis, MW, but just placing a rose tint over it. Perhaps I am being naïve?
Great article and very thought provoking, as always. Thanks.
“All avenues of life are marked with/ an unsustainable amount of corruption” - that’s what is so depressing because it is so insidious. From governments & entities & agencies & departments & corporations that are ostensibly created to serve citizens’ best interests, we find greed & hatred for those they all are meant to serve. It’s now in our “medicine”, the air we breathe, food we eat, liquids we drink, money w/ virtually no value, rules/regs/laws on which we were not consulted & did not agree. Honor, integrity, morality, courage, charity, common sense, rationality & good will towards men are sorely lacking.
Every bit of it is surely unsustainable, but because the tentacles are in every aspect of our lives, what happens when the lines are finally crossed?
Truer word not spoken!❤️
Very clearly stated and, alas, at least with respect to professional football, probably irrefutable. I share too your concern about the template this cheating, and worse the official/media response to it, provides to our wider society – and not just young footballers.
It does seem, then, as if we are living in a golden age for cheats and liars. However, I wonder if things are not quite as bad in our own day-to-day world? That is to say, I think that we (the collective ordinary persons) are taking the media-presented world of scoundrels and sociopaths we see in sport and politics and conflating it with our own domestic world to make an average in our minds that does not (accepting the usual caveats) reflect our daily reality. Although I concede that believing our world to be worse than it is, helps to make it so. And for this reason alone we should strive to consciously balance the cheating and sociopathy we see presented by our (their) media with a kinder reality we witness daily.
By way of example, I don’t personally know anyone who tricks and cheats their way through their daily life. Compared to the football game you referred to I must live in the company of angels.
I am not actually disagreeing with your analysis, MW, but just placing a rose tint over it. Perhaps I am being naïve?
Great article and very thought provoking, as always. Thanks.