Is Everything Wrestling?
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Is Everything Wrestling?
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#2>Parsing both those layers — the behavior and the meta-behavior, the story told and the story of why it’s being told that way
This is a fairly major way of partitioning literary analysis. I've seen it called "Watsonian" vs "Doyleist" - you can either take a look at the narrative elements in the story, or at the circumstances facing the author.
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#3At the very least, we can expect every future presidential candidate to have appeared on a reality show at some point. "News" organizations seek ratings. Nothing delivers ratings like the frisson of seeing that same person who did that silly thing on that show, now doing some other silly thing to piss off the nerds on CNN!
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#5Does anyone else yearn for life with what man has long called "wrestling"?
Our ancestors used to cultivate their might, overcome deep physical challenge, and express useful skills in sanctified circles.
Wrestling used to mean something profoundly real to human-kind, as it still does for many cultures who haven't taken a plunge into a commercial modernity.
I remember when I was young reading of loud gasps when `Okonkwo threw the Cat` in Things Fall Apart [0], one story's scene that resonates across distant lands, around familiar campfires, and within men's bones.
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#6Does anyone else yearn for life with what man has long called "wrestling"? Our ancestors used to cultivate their might, overcome deep physical challenge, and express useful skills in sanctified circles. Wrestling used to mean something profoundly real to human-kind, as it still does for many cultures who haven't taken a plunge into a commercial modernity. I remember when I was young reading of loud gasps when `Okonkw…
Yes. But on the other hand, the #2 story on HN right now is apologia for the inability to control one's emotional outbursts.
You'll probably need to solve the hugbox problem before you introduce a primal renaissance to our nerd culture.
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#7At the very least, we can expect every future presidential candidate to have appeared on a reality show at some point. "News" organizations seek ratings. Nothing delivers ratings like the frisson of seeing that same person who did that silly thing on that show, now doing some other silly thing to piss off the nerds on CNN!
Waaaay back in 1992, when Jay Leno was taking over for Johnny Carson, I saw an interview with him in which they asked him about having politicians on the Tonight Show. He said he didn't want to have them on unless they did something unusual "like play a saxophone or something silly like that."
Literally just a few months later then-candidate Bill Clinton appeared on Arsenio Hall and played the saxophone.
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#8Does anyone else yearn for life with what man has long called "wrestling"? Our ancestors used to cultivate their might, overcome deep physical challenge, and express useful skills in sanctified circles. Wrestling used to mean something profoundly real to human-kind, as it still does for many cultures who haven't taken a plunge into a commercial modernity. I remember when I was young reading of loud gasps when `Okonkw…
Yes. But on the other hand, the #2 story on HN right now is apologia for the inability to control one's emotional outbursts. You'll probably need to solve the hugbox problem before you introduce a primal renaissance to our nerd culture.
Surely learning to feel your own life and limb would foster insight and self-control.
And if that holds true, then this one-way media about physical expression, choreographed to maximize drama, surely causes imbalances to healthy and fruitful relief from bottling emotions.
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#9Does anyone else yearn for life with what man has long called "wrestling"? Our ancestors used to cultivate their might, overcome deep physical challenge, and express useful skills in sanctified circles. Wrestling used to mean something profoundly real to human-kind, as it still does for many cultures who haven't taken a plunge into a commercial modernity. I remember when I was young reading of loud gasps when `Okonkw…
Among my friends at least Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has caught on big time. I tried a couple classes. While I enjoyed the workout, I had a feeling that if I did it regularly I would constantly be nursing an injury of one kind or another.
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#10With recent events indicate strong links between the lords of professional wrestling and those of Silicon Valley, I have to give more credence to the idea than I would like.