Sports were invented to replace physical activities that had a purpose.
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It's potentially worse than that, but yeah.
Sports so we didn’t have to kill each other to see who’s the superior
no, it's a way to vent frustration at being enslaved by a tyrant
Just to be clear, I meant professional sports in regard to betting activities which forever altered the competitions. Ffs, even chess is rigged now. However, sports as a leisure and a way to transform the body is still great. You ever wonder why rugby is originally played 15 vs 15 and football (soccer) 11 vs 11? Although modern sports are the equivalent of bread and circus, there are still valuable things hidden within.
maybe in a village context but everywhere else it's just a way to calm down the herd
Weren't competitive sports also just training for battle?
that's the first use case, second would be bread and circuses, aka 2 minutes of hate
Not necessarily. The ancient Greek schools were interested in sporting activities. Although after the children turned 18y, the focus in the gymnasiums was more or less directed for military purposes. I imagine there was little choice once you grow up in a city which is constantly attacked by rival cities.
they were the first form of two minutes of hate
We replaced physical labor with machines (like using cars instead of walking) and then we use gym machines and sports to add the labor back in.
I was just walking home, admiring nature, listening to the birds, and it struck me that I used to go to the gym after work and walk on a treadmill.
You could have topped it by walking on the treadmill watching a documentary about birds in nature on a screen in front of you.
Treadmill is not sport
I think about that often. How fake we have to behave in this world because we aren't meant for how we live today.
We adapted then and we have to adapt now too
Humans seem to be adapting by creating medical treatments for obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and the loss of muscle and bone density.
Or they do special excersizes.
Men also seem to be developing a taste for very thin women. Perhaps trying to start off at a deficit, so that her added-fat doesn't cause her to later be as big as a house.
Women used to just go up a dress size and look a bit plumper.
It's been rather strange watching most of the women who were narrower than I become wider.
I always felt so humungous because of my heavy frame.
But I just stayed that way.
it's sugar, starch, grains... these are very unnatural foods for us... bird and rat food, not human food
30% of the human population can't tolerate lactose, i would estimate 60% of the population can't tolerate amylose - if the heart attack, diabetes and cancer stats say anything
Humans have been eating grains for thousands of years.
approximately 15,000 years
and before that, what you think?
for some 185,000 years we did not eat this shit
Human adaption is slow. Not that slow. That's about 215 generations.
And humans have always been able to digest some starches, such as roots, vegetables, or fruit. We're omnivores.
indeed, it took some 20k years to adapt to milk and 70% can tolerate it (north africa)
we been drinkin milk longer than we been eating seeds
the process is exponential, i still say maybe 60% can tolerate seeds, and the rest are dying of cancer, diabetes and heart disease easily 20-40 years early
Okay, I can agree with that. Many people probably can't correctly process seeds.
Or alcohol.
alcohol suppresses some of the effects of high blood sugar... i only just learned this recently, it increases insulin response
Ah, just searched for that. You appear to be correct. Interesting.
Perhaps there's a reason why alcohol tolerance and the ability to process seeds occurs together.
yes, beer and seed eating appeared at the same time
the biggest problem is that sugar is quite toxic to cells when it's above some certain threshold... above that point, all kinds of systems kick in to fix the problem, insulin rises, enzymes appear to string it into amylose, which at least isn't penetrating cell membranes like glucose can, and still other enzymes are converting it to fats, most notably being done in the liver
individuals whose genetics do not have the fat synthesis tendency are ending up with alzheimers, cancer, motor neuron disease, attention deficit disorder, diabetes, and numerous other diseases, probably rheumatoid arthritis is caused by this, cramping disorders (cannabis helps these and no coincidence it also increases insulin response)
so, if you eat normal food, and you don't get fat, something else is hiding in the background that is going to kill you slowly as you get older
look at it this way
do a survey of animals that eat seeds, and sugars, and honey, and see how long their lifespans are, i mean mammals and avians
hummingbirds live almost exclusively on sugar... this is required for the incredible power ratio of their wing muscles
they live very short lives and when they sleep it's like a coma
there's many examples you can find but animals that live off starch and sugars do not live long lives, and for that matter cellulose neither
there was some bogus studies done in the 60s to promote the idea that plant based diets were better because bla bla bla short life - these were bullshit that was warming everyone up towards the modern industrial food propaganda system, and developing the cult of veganism
Our civilization is becoming is more digital and less physical. Whether we like that or not is a different matter. We should at least be open minded to a range of possibilities. And physical excercise is ofc still crucial to live a good life.
Gardening is another one. We have a big garden.
We are living completely unnatural life styles now.
The only way for humans to evolve at the rate of the technology we create we need to fuse with it (transHumanism)?
Instead of battling with neighbouring villages, sports could decide the winners and losers.
Similarly, different villages (experience is from Philippines but i suspect other countries have similar examples) had their own costumes and dances and would 'battle' using dance
Not just the physical aspect but in a 'tribal' sense too
I meant German "sport", as in "excersize".
what purposeful activities were sports in the ancient olympics replacing?
Hunting, fighting in private or group battles, throwing projectiles at an enemy, traveling long distances by foot as a mode of transportation, etc.
Hunting, fighting in private or group battles, throwing projectiles at an enemy, traveling long distances by foot as a mode of transportation, etc.