Comments on: Sign of Society’s Degradation?

By: timgombis

timgombis — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:14:22 +0000

Totally agree, Daniel. Funny how this ‘bi-polar’ vision of things comes up in so many ways in so many contexts.

By: Daniel B

Daniel B — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:32:36 +0000

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,…” While I think these words were likely penned more for showing contrasts parallel to other contrasts in the novel, I think they also represent the way in which each era has a certain pride in itself. Making a general observation, it seems that each generation (especially with the dawn of Modernism) has its own pride that insists that it is unique and extraordinary in some way, even if it is extraordinarily bad. Just a thought.

By: timgombis

timgombis — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:37:10 +0000

With so many venues for talk talk talk, they gotta just keep jabbering away.

By: timgombis

timgombis — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:36:17 +0000

HA! That reminds me . . . I’ve got it DVR’d! Was watching the Jets game, but PTI is far more enriching!

By: thebareden

thebareden — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:56:05 +0000

With all the outcry over this, I assumed refs quartered his body and fed him to various wild beasts while the rich feasted and orgied.

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By: Haddon Anderson

Haddon Anderson — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:11:46 +0000

I heard that radio clip as well, and I did find the thought of playing in a studio to be quite outlandish.

I would agree that spectator behavior is not getting worse. As you noted, ugly incidents like what happened yesterday have been happening for many, many years.

I would also say that the ugliness of spectator behavior is now more visible and comes in more forms than previous eras. Hate-tweets and death threats now appear after every unfortunate ending to a game, and the overall access to social media exclaims the ugliness. Imagine if Twitter were around when the Bartman ball occurred. An ugly scene would’ve been even uglier…

But that doesn’t indicate that spectator behavior is getting worse. There are just more vehicles for ugliness to be displayed.

Overall, it seems like ugly scenes have occurred in the past, are occurring now, and will continue to take place in the future, but perhaps there is more buzz surrounding them now because everything is excessively publicized and debated.

P.S. This is a great topic to be discussed on PTI. Give Wilbon a call and tell him to spend 5 Good Minutes on this…