tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37179942.post2811791026808255882..comments2023-10-22T05:51:58.898-04:00Comments on Soob: Jay@Soobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12208597218366281778noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37179942.post-66110151342892419952007-03-03T08:54:00.000-05:002007-03-03T08:54:00.000-05:00I should mention that I never trained to such a Br...I should mention that I never trained to such a Bruce Wayne level of intenseness. <BR/><BR/>But I liked to think raw atheleticism and smarts were the makings of true future warriors rather than wearing 5kg helmets with every technological attachment known to man hanging off it.Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10588546748297924666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37179942.post-88240058482397321702007-03-03T08:23:00.000-05:002007-03-03T08:23:00.000-05:00Arn't sports brilliant [1]. Great for entertainmen...Arn't sports brilliant [1]. <BR/><BR/>Great for entertainment and bringing people together but also highly underrated as a form of personal education and enlightenment. That enlightenment coming from the process of athletic hardship and going into the "zone" after overcoming great odds and then reflecting on that performance. Or as some humanist psychologists called it: "peak experiences". <BR/><BR/>I always thought it'd be interesting to marry up the traditionally opposed worlds of scholarship and sports to create scholar-sportsmen/women who strived for high performance in the physical, mental, and emotional domains of their chosen sport that transferred to other areas of life.<BR/><BR/>Whilst in the Army I always thought of soldiering as a form of athletic performance. Imagine being peaked trained in quick visual detection, reaction skills, combined with the agility of a gymnast, and the speed of a sprinter. Then combine that with the bloodthirstyness of the boxer Mike Tyson's mindset. Tyson was found by some reporter jogging at 4am in the morning for a fight and the reporter asked him "What are you doing up at this ungodly hour?" and he goes "because I know my opponent is asleep". <BR/><BR/>Footies<BR/><BR/>1. I sound like that fast show sketch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knYOcaQ-x5o<BR/><BR/>Arn't footnotes brilliant? They 'av numbers with additional information and that. Fantastic.Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10588546748297924666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37179942.post-34834672435648696092007-02-28T22:20:00.000-05:002007-02-28T22:20:00.000-05:00Whatever the event is, it's probably beyond our kn...Whatever the event is, it's probably beyond our knowledge. However, I don't think that America has evolved past a cylical rise and fall.aelkushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02250169760199903577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37179942.post-59187475157683405402007-02-28T20:21:00.000-05:002007-02-28T20:21:00.000-05:00long after we lose superpower status.Given the les...<I>long after we lose superpower status.</I><BR/><BR/>Given the lessons of history this seems a <I>when</I> rather than <I>if</I> scenario. I wonder what the global situation would have to entail (short the obvious global catastrophe of, say, a particularly large meteor) to bring about such. Certainly this vision (short of some rather shallow assertions born of sensationalists)is hard to imagine. And yet history nearly assures it. Can (or has) America evolved beyond the cold, cyclical grasp of history?Jay@Soobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12208597218366281778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37179942.post-5155240043973001712007-02-27T15:38:00.000-05:002007-02-27T15:38:00.000-05:00I think it's likely that we'll see American cultur...I think it's likely that we'll see American cultural products around long after we lose superpower status. Even anti-American movies, like Turkey's Valley of the Wolves Iraq, are merely pirated rehashes of American cinematic tropes.aelkushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02250169760199903577noreply@blogger.com