Win, Lose, Drew by Drew Litton for May 16, 2013
May 13, 2013
May 21, 2013
Transcript:
The high school kid who can play a sport gets a lot of attention... the high school kid who can someday cure cancer, not so much... further proof our priorities are out of whack...
Sports will always be revered by humans. Humans have an innate need to feel superior. You can see it in nationalistic jingoism, being cock-sure that my religion is the correct one, racial/social discrimination, even social cliques in high school. I’m sure you can find more examples.
The best part about sports is that we don’t have to do the dominating; we wave a banner or wear a T-shirt or a cap (backwards, of course, so that the sun can stay off our necks while it bakes our eyes), and the other guys do it for us. Taken in this context, isn’t it a small price to pay one person $10 million per year? Isn’t it worth much more?