I Can't Seem to Face Up to the Facts

Part XXVII (Luke's Response)

Great question. Worth pondering because, as we've said, of the meaningful function sport serves to us. I'm not sure we care about sports enough. Let me clarify. I'm not sure we care intentionally enough about sports.

We spend a great deal of time paying attention to sports, on TV and in person, but I wonder how much time we spend in reflection.

As you pointed out, some of the allure of sports is the "escape." They help break the monotony of our regular routines and offer a safe emotional release. But a tricky thing happens- we're prone to shift into a comfort-induced mental auto-pilot. I doubt that generally sports fans spend too much time in reflection over the existential significance of sport. And those are the deepest reasons sport is good. So we ought to be more intentional with our thought/reflection about sport. Let's examine the ways sport brings us together and helps us live deeply.

But in the more plain way, yes we probably do care too much about sports. It's not a hard case to make that at least some of the money we spend on sports could be more wisely spent. At least it could have more meaningful impacts.

The jump from sports fanaticism in America to piggy excess is not a difficult one, right?