Timothy Birdnow

The hockey game the other night was full of fights. The media hate that. Now why do you suppose?

Canada, one of the most polite and peaceable countries, is the epicenter of hockey and yet there is so much fighting in their national sport. Now why do you suppose that is? It acts as a safety valve, helping Canadians release their suppressed anger. People live vicariously through the sport and get out their frustrations by watching the hockey goons punch each-other out (and since they are on skates it's almost impossible to get seriously hurt).

If the media truly wants to discourage violence they have to offer an alternative. But that is not their goal at all. Rather, they want to pacify the average citizen but allow the predators to run  amoke to help drive societal change. Taking fighting out of sports goes a long way towards accomplishing that goal.

The fact is every civilization has used some sort of sports to help maintain a cohesive society. The Romans had the gladiator contests. The Greeks had a number of sports, some quite vicious.

Sports come from training for war, I might add. They were toned down and adapted for the civilians, who would never actually fight in a war.

So, what is the rising sport, the one the media likes? Soccer. It is international, multiracial, and there is no violence. Oh, and the referees control every aspect of it and can change the outcome of a game just by how they blow their whistles. It's the perfect model for what they want for humanity.

Americans used to disdain soccer as a foreign and effete exercise.

And while America was the home of both baseball and basketball, it was football that came to dominate (football became the top sport back in 1972, beating out baseball, which had been dominant since 1948. Now soccer is almost as popular as football.

That shows the changes to America's psychology. We used to loathe soccer as a foreign thing. Now we embrace it. Baseball became full of foreigners, I might add, and it has become sunk in endless new rules which have made the sport wimpy. You can't block the plate anymore, or slide cleat first into a baseman.

Hockey has largely been immune, although they certainly have become much stricter with the fighting and the other rough stuff. But it will never be America's sport; it belongs to Canada, and Russia.

Eventually we'll be watching badmitton.

Sports have been a political tool for a long, long time. It was integrated well before society at large, for instance. It has pushed women into sports they would never have thought of (like women's boxing). It is a part of the Progressive program.

I don't know who remembers the old movie Rollerball, (the original, not the '90's remake, which was horrible). The story was the world was run by corporations and Rollerball was a hyper-violent game designed to keep people in line. As Mr. Bartholemew, a company executive, stated "the purpose of Rollerball is to teach the futility of individual action."

The big star in the game - a guy named Jonathan E. - was being forced out of the game because he became too dominant. He refused to resign; he held a grudge because a corporate executive took his wife away. In the end they decided to forego murdering him because it would be too obvious tot he public, and tried sending him back his wife. He told her to go to hell and went forward with the championship game, which now had no substitution, no penalties, and no time limit. It was to the death.

In the end he was the last man alive and stuffed the ball in the goal.

I think in many ways this is an accurate picture of what the Left has in store for us, although they seem to be moving away from the violence and rather trying to numb us. But it is an attempt to use sports to change our character.

So smile the next time you see a hockey fight; it means that at least some people are resisting the pacification of our society.

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