HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Seat Belt, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Retina
Document Summary
Ever since words existed for ighing and playing, men have been wont to call war a game. The ancient greek word aethlos means the ight of warriors and the contest of athletes. Sports is the human acivity closest to war that isn"t lethal. Ronald reagan: maybe sport is priming us for a military mindset. The true mission of american sports is to prepare young men for war. Dwight d. eisenhower: not in a way to give them an avenue for giving of steam, but training for inevitable conlict. Extreme sports derives its primary pleasures not from watching but rather being in virtual proximity to pain and danger. In colonizing discourses of recruiing, war journalism, terrorism, and others, the metaphor has given birth to the rhetoric of the. Batleield playground. " such a relaionship to war is a vital aspect of the virtual ciizen- soldier.
