FIFA World Cup 2014

Skybird · 07-14-14, 02:57 PM

If you consider to what immense degree this event has the power to remind people of their shared - national - identity, and how much you also are made by these events to realise the national identity, the group identity of the others in their other colours, I would not say that it is all not important.

It teaches a lesson, especially to identity-denying bureaucrats like in the EU or socialist partie, that it is not just foolish but - considering that these emotions obviously are real and intense - almost obscene to just declare all that irrelevant and non-exiostent, as if that identity can be defined at will, by arbitrary adminstrative decision. It brings back some tribal emotions, making something emerging again that is usually covered under a layer of "reasonability" and " pragmatism". But that energy is real, and it motivates people for better or worse, under certain circumstances. Than k good it is a sports event this time. All too often it has been wars.

Even an emotional Vulcan like me yesterday felt that deeply hidden energy touching my inner core. Have I anything to do in real life with those hundreds of thousands and millions of German people? No, I even have attacked them as an anonymous group over political issues many times, and am angry at them. And still - yesterday, for a moment, I felt very clearly that I definitely am not Argentinian, or of any other national or cultural identity - but German.

That may be irrational. Even confusing. Nevertheless such irrational symptoms still can echo in reality, and define it.

The football world cup is the last of the nations' camp fires around which the tribes sit together and do voodoo to scare away other tribes. And if they win, the whole gang howls together, like wolves do.

07-14-14, 02:57 PM	#11
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,819 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	If you consider to what immense degree this event has the power to remind people of their shared - national - identity, and how much you also are made by these events to realise the national identity, the group identity of the others in their other colours, I would not say that it is all not important. It teaches a lesson, especially to identity-denying bureaucrats like in the EU or socialist partie, that it is not just foolish but - considering that these emotions obviously are real and intense - almost obscene to just declare all that irrelevant and non-exiostent, as if that identity can be defined at will, by arbitrary adminstrative decision. It brings back some tribal emotions, making something emerging again that is usually covered under a layer of "reasonability" and " pragmatism". But that energy is real, and it motivates people for better or worse, under certain circumstances. Than k good it is a sports event this time. All too often it has been wars. Even an emotional Vulcan like me yesterday felt that deeply hidden energy touching my inner core. Have I anything to do in real life with those hundreds of thousands and millions of German people? No, I even have attacked them as an anonymous group over political issues many times, and am angry at them. And still - yesterday, for a moment, I felt very clearly that I definitely am not Argentinian, or of any other national or cultural identity - but German. That may be irrational. Even confusing. Nevertheless such irrational symptoms still can echo in reality, and define it. The football world cup is the last of the nations' camp fires around which the tribes sit together and do voodoo to scare away other tribes. And if they win, the whole gang howls together, like wolves do. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.