In our brain/mind processing of Sports, it would seem we’d be taking a big chunk out of that neuropsychiatric love affair with the discontinuation of March Madness and the NBA schedule.
But continuing with the neuropathological dissection, we are left with bare images of five on five hoop games with no one in the arena!! Of course, such a nightmarish scenario could not be allowed to happen. After all, when you and some pals hit the schoolyard with a big roundball say 40 or 50 years ago, you couldn’t drag anyone to stop watching Leave it to Beaver and stand there watching you and your knucklehead friends.
But of course, you and your silly pals weren’t hitting threes at the rate of 39% or setting heavyweight picks not being 6’10 and 375 (so exciting to see you know).
As usual, I’m being a bit sardonic here, but the COVID-19 deal has revealed that the spectacle of Sport is far more of a magnet than witnessing the draining of jump shots. The Emperor has no clothes!!! Sport is a massive delusion!!! That’s the reason for the shut down of games which could be played in private and then live streamed to the fans who could watch them on TV.
Oh the non-pomp and circumstance of it all!!!
Hoop it up in the backyard with your youngins’ and ponder more why we need Sports Archetypes.
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Kenneth Gross, MD
Fusion Clinical Multimedia, Inc.
Philadelphia PA
*Kenneth Bruce Van Gross, MD is the author of:
Primal Neuroanthropology: A Neuro-Sports Hypothesis
and
Primal Sports II: A Psychoanalytical, Psychoneurological and Neurosociological Treatise with New Game, Myth, Philosophical and Satire Extras
Both available from IPBooks: Click Here