My last Break article was a critic that explained the trivialization of culture. It compared the present’s habits with those of the past. I explain how and why our appreciation towards art has become poor and reckless over the years. How T.V stars and great soccer players have on the traditions, tastes, and mores, the influence that teachers, thinkers, and theologians once had.
After going to the Monumental, Universitario de Deportes’ soccer stadium, I had a great realization. Even though I am very hard in our contemporary culture and a fan of the ancient one, I understood that we are not so different after all. We definitely manifest our feelings and beliefs in very modest ways, we may have lost the sensitivity of before; but the natural instincts of a human remain the same.
A football game can be of course for the fans -I am one of them- a great show of skill and harmony. But the big football games serve mainly as Roman circuses, as a pretext to vent into the irrational, as a regression of the individual to its status as part of a tribe, as a gregarious piece in which, protected by the anonymity of the warm tribune, the viewer unleashes his aggressive instincts of rejection to others, of power, and commits a symbolic annihilation (although sometimes real) to the adversary.
The famous " hooligans " of certain clubs and their damages, such as murder and vandalism, show that in many cases it is not the practice of a sport which magnetizes so many fans - mostly male-, but the ritual that triggers the instincts and irrational impulses that allow the individual to relinquish their condition of civil and behave, throughout a game, as an animal. All in all, humans have some unchangeable behaviors that are inherited by blood.
After going to the Monumental, Universitario de Deportes’ soccer stadium, I had a great realization. Even though I am very hard in our contemporary culture and a fan of the ancient one, I understood that we are not so different after all. We definitely manifest our feelings and beliefs in very modest ways, we may have lost the sensitivity of before; but the natural instincts of a human remain the same.
A football game can be of course for the fans -I am one of them- a great show of skill and harmony. But the big football games serve mainly as Roman circuses, as a pretext to vent into the irrational, as a regression of the individual to its status as part of a tribe, as a gregarious piece in which, protected by the anonymity of the warm tribune, the viewer unleashes his aggressive instincts of rejection to others, of power, and commits a symbolic annihilation (although sometimes real) to the adversary.
The famous " hooligans " of certain clubs and their damages, such as murder and vandalism, show that in many cases it is not the practice of a sport which magnetizes so many fans - mostly male-, but the ritual that triggers the instincts and irrational impulses that allow the individual to relinquish their condition of civil and behave, throughout a game, as an animal. All in all, humans have some unchangeable behaviors that are inherited by blood.