ATHLETICISM has played an imortant role in human culture ever since our ancestors stopped hunting and gathering, settled down, and started farming. It could be that our modern interest in athletics, which is tremendous, is a substitute for hunting and gathering, which, at some deep level of our subconscious, we remember and miss.
The olympics is an attempt to promote world harmony, peace, cooperation in every aspect of life other than the actual competitive athletic events of the olympics, which are brutally, cut throat competitive. Seemingly, contradictory.
The influence of mony in athletics is so strong that amateurism seems to have lost any real meaning; the olympics, originally amateuristic, are now corporate sponsored and controlled, with professional athletes.
Steroids, performance enhancing drugs are the inevitable combination of technology, and the pressure to improve athletic performance for money. IN the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties american baseball players became muscle bound behemoths, until steroids were finally outlawed.
But they still haven't altogether disappeared from sports; quite the contrary, it seems. An american baseball player, who is sudenly performing at a much mcuh higher level than he ever had before, arousing suspicion, was tested for drugs, which found testosterone. He was banned from playing the next fifty games.
It is incredible, absolutely incredible, how much his performance improved while using testosterone. So was the hormone the cause? It looks that way.
What is humanity accepted the proposition that every person has the right to ingest whatever he or she chooses, the sacred right to completely control one's body? Currently, we don't have this right. Should we?
maybe if all athletes used performance enhancing drugs the overall quality of athletic performance would drastically increase.
Bb
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