The Truthless Reconciler has not often ventured into the world of sports, but since social commentary and analysis is the prime function of this site, such venture seems warranted.
We should consider changing the culture of our favorite sport, football. Once upon a time football involved blocking and tackling. Now, it involves hitting. Violence for its own sake, in a violence for its own sake culture.
Division One collegiate athletics is out of contol, because it makes huge money, and the universities are all willing to do whatever it takes, moral or no, legal or no, to ensure the continued income of big money. Meanwhile, the athletes are ruthlessly expolited, instead of educated.
Major league baseball is a travesty, with every player waering his uniform however he wants to, and nobody with enough backbone or power to make them wear the uniform properly. Nothing wrong with necklaces and earrings. But if one player on the team wears a gold necklace, so should everybody on the team wear a gold necklace. Socks up, or socks down, everybody the same, none of this individual preference crap.
And of course, professional athletes are paid a million times more than first grade teachers, which is a reflection of a corrupt society with corrupt values, reflected in its corrupt economic system.
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