Spectator sport
I enjoy watching sports period. Not the traditional ones. Watching a hockey game leaves me a little bemused. No I found something even better. Give and take a political rhetoric. And we have lots to watch. Multiple channels in a worldwide wreck network if you will. Right now I’m watching four simultaneous court trials. Or at least the lead up to those trials yeah some may never happen. And what I notice is that with the right rhetoric even something I can only watch from a distance becomes more interesting. I was unaware before this just how much posturing went into any given situation. And I’ve tried different levels. From the mundane traffic court cases that are out there. All the way up through constitutional debate. For those involved at the bench level these are serious battles. For those of us watching from our living room, not so much. We can walk away at any point knowing that there will be a new battle tomorrow. Just like sports and TV I guess. I mean, do we really need hundreds and hundreds of hockey games to get us through the long winter in Canada. Unlike those hockey games some of the political battles may actually affect my life at some distant point. Language is a tool. Some of the people involved in the discussion of these court cases have a wit that is sharp edged. Not too much blood drawn yet but one can hope. As for those hockey games well they’ll be around. People make careers out of those. I actually have to admit that I have not been to a proper hockey game in decades. The seats were not that comfortable. Here in my living room I have an excellent couch and it fits me.
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