Michael Schumacher's little getaway
"Games enlist skill and intelligence, the utmost concentration of purpose, on behalf of activities utterly useless, which make no contribution to the struggle of man against nature, to the wealth and comfort of the community, or its physical survival.
Among the activities through which men seek release from everyday life, games offer in many ways the purest form of escape. Like sex, drugs and drink, they obliterate awareness of everyday reality, but they do this by raising a it to a new intensity of concentration.
They re-create the freedom, the remembered perfection of childhood, and mark it off from ordinary life with artificial boundaries, within which the only constraints are the rules to which the players freely submit."
The Culture Of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch (1978)
The Degradation of Sport
But, if an "entertainthlete" can make it to the upper echelons of "The $how", they can have one of these!
Among the activities through which men seek release from everyday life, games offer in many ways the purest form of escape. Like sex, drugs and drink, they obliterate awareness of everyday reality, but they do this by raising a it to a new intensity of concentration.
They re-create the freedom, the remembered perfection of childhood, and mark it off from ordinary life with artificial boundaries, within which the only constraints are the rules to which the players freely submit." The Culture Of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch (1978) The Degradation of Sport
But, if an "entertainthlete" can make it to the upper echelons of "The $how", they can have one of these!
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Athelete?
ReplyDeleteSome say.......he designed the holes in swiss cheese.......that he may be the first celebrity to lose a mansion to rising sea levels.......and that he has actually made DONN COPPENS jealous!
All I know is............He's the STIG!
Hey Alex!
ReplyDeleteDas es einnen nice shack Ja?
I have listened to people suggest that drivers are athletic..and the new breed certainly train more than the good old boys.
and yes I wouldn't mind having a place in the sun but he obviously doesn't believe in global warming!!
HELLO!
Too many rooms to clean.
ReplyDeleteUnless you have houseboys, of course.
or Housefraus :)
DeleteOff-topic: I see that we can’t get follow-up comments notification on your blog.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to permit follow-up comment notification on your blog, I’ve done a post about how to do it here.
Like this? Cool.
Delete*~*clicks The Culture Of Narcissism into ebook queue*~*
ReplyDeletethat house is too far from Wal~Mart. Unless it's in the next island over.
I was thinking of going for a walk but the fridge called out to me.........
ReplyDeleteGreat reaad thankyou
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