Hypocrisy
This from Dan Gillmor's eJournal on the steroid story that refuses to go away in professional sports.
His last point is that he has tuned out the steroid story to focus on the Middle East and a lot of people dying. I believe that this is the worng answer. We have tuned out too much and accept being lied to as the norm. I tried to add this to the comments section but hit server problems.
I would never compare deaths in Iraq with taking drugs in sport. However, our ability to tune out events that we knew to be lies, corrupt, hypocritical started with sports and then moved pretty rapidly to low-level politics, then to national politicians and then suddenly to voting and participating in society.
Drugs in sport is just another example of us (the people) being taken for a ride by the establishment. In some cases it does not matter; take boxing for example which is now so corrupt that it barely registers a flicker before being ignored again. In too many cases just ignoring the bad and corrupt leads to a situation where we accept being lied to as part of the daily truth.
At some point we have to stand up and be counted by demanding that lies be accountable. Sports is not a bad place to start.
06 December 2004
Hypocrisy
This from Dan Gillmor's eJournal on the steroid story that refuses to go away in professional sports.
His last point is that he has tuned out the steroid story to focus on the Middle East and a lot of people dying. I believe that this is the worng answer. We have tuned out too much and accept being lied to as the norm. I tried to add this to the comments section but hit server problems.
I would never compare deaths in Iraq with taking drugs in sport. However, our ability to tune out events that we knew to be lies, corrupt, hypocritical started with sports and then moved pretty rapidly to low-level politics, then to national politicians and then suddenly to voting and participating in society.
Drugs in sport is just another example of us (the people) being taken for a ride by the establishment. In some cases it does not matter; take boxing for example which is now so corrupt that it barely registers a flicker before being ignored again. In too many cases just ignoring the bad and corrupt leads to a situation where we accept being lied to as part of the daily truth.
At some point we have to stand up and be counted by demanding that lies be accountable. Sports is not a bad place to start.
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