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gopiscrap

(23,766 posts)
Sat Jul 28, 2012, 05:27 PM Jul 2012

We worship sports too much as a society

From High School to Penn State to the Olympics we as a society give way too much to sports. High schools stiff academic funding to funds sports (specially football and basketball) we spend millions on stadiums when cities are decaying, we spend a billion plus to bring the Olympics to SLC and we black out news results of game events...it says something about our society that we value sports this much..we're fucked up!!!

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We worship sports too much as a society (Original Post) gopiscrap Jul 2012 OP
Good grief! HappyMe Jul 2012 #1
Yes, we do. Cerridwen Jul 2012 #2
I love Baseball! demosincebirth Jul 2012 #3

Cerridwen

(13,260 posts)
2. Yes, we do.
Sat Jul 28, 2012, 05:30 PM
Jul 2012

Kicking people in the face for doing so is hardly a way to convince them of such.

BTW, I fucking hate sports!!

I also understand why some follow them to the exclusion of all else. Opium is no longer legal and not all people have the funds or wherewithal to appropriate such.

Figure it out. Start with;

imagine the world does not revolve around you.

It gets easier from there.

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