Thread: World Cup
View Single Post
  #35  
Old 16th July 2018, 12:22
SJB Norway SJB is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: Brandbu, Gran, Norway
Posts: 48
I doubt that what is important can be decided upon. It may be something that can be influenced by ones declarations of a high level of importance for this and that activity, but mostly it can only be found. There is actually no basic premise for arguing the importance of anything; you have to start with the agreed upon importance of something else. Something that will gain by that what you want to prove is of importance. Therefore, you may claim that the British sailor was of great importance, but this only successfully within a group of people who agrees upon world trade, or something equally needful of sailors, being important.

Now, let us admit it, football is the most important thing in the world for quite a lot of people. They say that a World Cup win for a nation will assure the incumbent political leader a re-election, and no sane democratic leader will publicly admit a lack of interest in the game. Thus, the man who has no comment on the latest development in football is a quiet and lonely man in most late evening social gatherings as well. And this whatever rock-splitting philosophical discoveries he may present to himself on the top of the Matterhorn, or locked in the loo. Therefore, within that wide-gaping agreement on the preeminent importance of football, many more morally deserving “heroes” just naturally fades away.

When we move around so half seriously, what about the “footballer tattoos”? What sociological readings can we find in that? It looks as if a complete fill-up is the trend, a change of skin colour rather than depictions and verbal declarations

Last edited by SJB; 16th July 2018 at 12:26.
Reply With Quote