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Can a nation of sports lovers be more technically innovative?

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I don't think the new Sino-Australian nation will be a sports-loving nation like the rapidly disappearing Anglo-Australian nation. The Chinese are an entrepreneurial class and will be more concerned with making money and enhancing their social status as the dominant ethnic group in multicultural Australia rather than wasting their time in hedonistic pursuits. There is a saying amongst the Chinese in Australia that goes 'Aren't the whites dumb' and I think that part of that is because the Chinese see the pursuit of pleasure through sport by Anglo-Australians as being anathema to the pursuit of money.
Posted by Mr Opinion, Monday, 25 January 2016 2:56:52 PM
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'There is a saying amongst the Chinese in Australia that goes 'Aren't the whites dumb' and I think that part of that is because the Chinese see the pursuit of pleasure through sport by Anglo-Australians as being anathema to the pursuit of money.

Yes Mr Opinion but it did not stop the Chinese cheating to wind medals or is that more to do with social status. They are also well over represented when it comes to cheating in exams. Maybe they see 'dumb whites' who have been influenced by the Judea Christian ethic that it is wrong to cheat. Thats not to say their are plenty of cases of whites who now cheat thanks to secularisation and no moral base to draw from.
Posted by runner, Monday, 25 January 2016 3:51:30 PM
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Young children learn by working out what's going on around them. Like children from parents practising extreme religions. Children will favour pleasing parents to fit in with everyone, baring sibling jealousies.

Similar to religion, parents watching sports on weekends allows young children wanting to be excepted in social conversations, children take notice of similarly dressed parents. Girls follow mothers, boys follow fathers.

Fathers watching sports, being excited by increased point scores, boys learn to understand increased stimulation at moments of increased point scores. The learning process is all very visual, and I am not apologetic by saying “the process is all very Neanderthal”.

Sending children to school unable to: read; write; do maths, locking children up for long hours in classrooms, unable to move freely at will. Young children's increasing desires to reward repressed behaviours with whatever quick fix pleasuring desires to blot out hours of boredom and stress.

Neanderthal behavioural pathways expressed in sports participation will feel far more desirable than academic forced labours.

There may even be some survey/study that states “male children from working class families whose fathers are often not present, perform better academically at school than children who have good relationships with exhausted male working class parents”. Alcohol becomes less of an issue for teenagers as teenagers as young children have few to no remembered experiences with male parents drinking alcohol, watching sports.

This follows the stolen generation theory. Aboriginal children being removed from aboriginal parents in order to break a culture of alcoholic behaviour.

My accusation is that sports are very important to social stability by physically exhausted working class workers. Weekend sports entertainment to most mentioned class of people are important. Everyone wants to follow winners and or feel they're knowledgeable in judging sporting match performances.

One team and or player has to lose. Who wins are far less important than people's enjoyment in judging match performances.

I say all professional sports are played to audiences entertainment, mixing up plays into as many different surprising performances. And or as few surprising performances depending on believed audiences determined entertainment desires.
Posted by steve101, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 3:13:54 PM
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There exists a documentary series “Greeks, Romans, Vikings” I state by watching the Greeks episode, the Greeks episode starts off by mentioning what Greek philosophers formulated.

I make claims that these famous philosophers, argued benefits of tricking repressed intelligence working slave class. As unhappy slaves needed to be forced to work, in the dark of night, slaves were feared by ruling and warrior classes. Athenian Greeks in often presented history of Greek advancement: Greek philosophic cultures; ship building; trade and a period of Greek economic power. Slaves belief in a degree of democracy and entertaining theatre story telling simply understood heroic behaviours.
Ancient Greece's large building projects dressed with glorifying stone carvings, describes how a belief in free working societies can create powerful empires from small Greek states, other dictator ruling classes with large slave classes can't do.

Witnessing documentaries on Roman: art; buildings and military organisation, comes with many stories about emperors “open to the public” embarrassing stories. What emperors and senators were doing became public knowledge. Embarrassing stories, allowed common free citizens and slaves to feel entertainment. Very much the same as histories scandalous: popes: kings; emperors. Now: Catholic priests; supposed wealthy entertainers; unionists and politicians.

The many television documentaries are describing a relationship to story telling has persuasive powers, used to manipulate common working class people to believe some degree of independence from being “do as you're told” slave labour.
Roman slave owners gave freedom to slaves for years of devotion to their owners, rewarded with Roman citizenship that came with monthly food quoters.

My suggestion is that television's many documentaries compressed ideas into a concept of how for two and a half millennium, ruling classes govern populations using trickery.
My suggestion will no doubt be rejected by most people, fearing new ideas.

If by understanding the above ideas, real government leaders aren't going to spend time pandering to common people's need to feel intelligent for understanding faked democracies.
Posted by steve101, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 3:15:40 PM
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Monty Python's: “the meaning of life” movie song describing earth's speeds relative to the universe. Last song words as the singer steps backwards into a fridge, “pray there's some intelligent life somewhere up there in space because there's bugger all down here on earth”.

Both soccer and grab the ball and run games to my informed knowledge was derived from British military training. A scene in 'the meaning of life' movie showed how a brutal football game leading directly to a scene of trench warfare, soldiers arguing over giving a birthday cake and a grandfather clock to an army officer. Directly after, British officers in the Boer War were seen more concerned with themselves than brightly red uniformed common foot soldiers battling with Zulus. Movie watchers can appreciate: the humour; if any change in present to past officer class; the relationship between sport and trench warfare; a relationship between wealthy class that has so much wealth, the wealthy class can eat and eat until they burst. Whether watchers noticed the compressed ideas or simply tried to enjoy the comedy without bothering to conclude what the movie was about.

Somehow, by mentioning similar ideas to people, would listeners start laughing as though they had watched “the meaning of life” movie and found the movie ideas to be humorous?

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Like most to all people who want to maintain and or share political influence to increase wealth, real democracies are opportunities to corruptly enter into relationship organisations to influence laws in favour of keeping a limited number of people rich. Justified by stating, “without us, things could be worse” exampling Monty Python's “the meaning of life” and New York mayor Boss Tweed, organised corruption. Creating family bureaucratic systems from generation to generation, controlling: media stories; public finance; transport; building; corporate market forces and government services employment.

Bad education and media: crime; scandals; science advancement; conflicting cultural and religious ideology, distractions, allow people to enslave themselves in work to satisfy moving forwards, away from poverty, cultural competitive productive get rich while you can, beliefs.
Posted by steve101, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 3:17:20 PM
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January 23, 2016. I watched an SBS recorded Chinese 2010 movie: “Reign of Assassins”. Attempting to read fast moving subtitles, watching fast moving Kung Fu sword fighting impossible flying through the air action scenes. I enjoyed the movie because I found unbelievable scenes different compared to US stories. I accuse such entertainment movies were scripted and directed to keep viewing populations Neanderthal dumb. Other than loyalty and betrayal, absolutely nothing else permitting wise consideration could be learnt.

Other obvious to me dummying examples are:
ABC television's 1930s period stories and murder story programs.
Action; sex; romantic chick flicks. Dumb... dumb... dumber scripted and directed viewer entertainment.

Add periodic: commercials; programs with quick flashing scenes; not getting to the point statements; shallow meaningless personal histories; overly enthusiastic applauding and cheering audiences; guests on talk shows talking about pointless events in their lives made to sound humorous; game shows where everyone laughs at everything most all the time. Animals in the wild programs are meant to limit knowledge to simplest understanding.

Movies and television programming are limited to limited technology. Instead of practical modern technology, media experiences are shown impossible science, impractical possibilities. Can't conclude anything from murder story investigations. Hero stories are: cowboy gun fighting, John Wayne; Superman; Batman; Captain America; Ironman; Sherlock Holmes inspired improbabilities to real life problems.
In real life, exploring collective memories for useful/usable imaginations have few memorised comparisons.

Even though I accuse school education as being limiting to life learning, persuading children to follow sports. Media's controlling stories, limits how humans experience information and images responding behaviours.

Needs for alcohol medication leads to many hours spent at hotel bars. Limited to competitive bar conversations, embarrassing moments lead to built up aggression. Aggressive: sport entertainment; newly introduced fight programs; action hero solutions to problems, everyone feels they're the good guys; no real obvious Homo-Sapien solutions are learned from media stories.
Posted by steve101, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 3:19:23 PM
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