Ice cream as evolutionary tool
Fighting is barbaric.
It just is. Whether it's with weapons or not, this Shirtmaster can't think of an activity that ignores - and in fact, retrogrades - the human spirit of progress more than the destruction of life; and, to a lesser extent, things.
People often complain that other 'people are animals.' Barbaric and brutish, life is a struggle for survival that is ultimately fatal anyway. But there's no need to hasten the inevitable demise along.
This obviously raises an obvious contridiction; what about a survival struggle or some sort of resistance movement that exists to counter a certain colonial power? Both examples employ 'the fight' in a venue that speaks to both this human spirit of progress AND the destruction of persons (though a good counter is that to force a party into a fight is as barbarous as the fight itself, thus generally absolving one who is forced to fight as a means of survival and placing all blame on the aggressor - though not all will buy this argument). Either way, how do we reconcile this? I say ice cream. But that's just me.
So, I guess what I mean is that, specifically, fighting as entertainment is barbaric retrogression. This means you, Ultimate Fighting Championship...and you too, today's Daily Shirt
(though, to be fair, he's not a fighter anymore - now he's busy shilling; obviously a much more noble endeavour...)
It just is. Whether it's with weapons or not, this Shirtmaster can't think of an activity that ignores - and in fact, retrogrades - the human spirit of progress more than the destruction of life; and, to a lesser extent, things.
People often complain that other 'people are animals.' Barbaric and brutish, life is a struggle for survival that is ultimately fatal anyway. But there's no need to hasten the inevitable demise along.
This obviously raises an obvious contridiction; what about a survival struggle or some sort of resistance movement that exists to counter a certain colonial power? Both examples employ 'the fight' in a venue that speaks to both this human spirit of progress AND the destruction of persons (though a good counter is that to force a party into a fight is as barbarous as the fight itself, thus generally absolving one who is forced to fight as a means of survival and placing all blame on the aggressor - though not all will buy this argument). Either way, how do we reconcile this? I say ice cream. But that's just me.
So, I guess what I mean is that, specifically, fighting as entertainment is barbaric retrogression. This means you, Ultimate Fighting Championship...and you too, today's Daily Shirt
(though, to be fair, he's not a fighter anymore - now he's busy shilling; obviously a much more noble endeavour...)
posted by Edmund J. Whipplethorpe @ 9:22 AM
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