RE: the return of the NBA

[NAOS]

Let’s set aside the idealisms and bromides like ‘sports bring people together’ for just a minute and consider something...

How much of the activism right now—critical and effective activism—is being fueled by the fact that people have been without their usual Entertainment distractions?

That’s kind of an awkward wording... to conceptualize the catalysis of a reaction in terms of a LACK of something isn’t without its challenges. But I think you get my drift: most people have become more dominated by a set of non-stop Entertainment values than they’d like to acknowledge, and these values keep us in a sort of suspension that isn’t conducive to change. In fact, they may very well be directly resistant to change: they have us where they want us; our attention spans are the raw material for their capitalist production.

Bromides like ‘sports bring people together’ we’re authored in a different time, well before the emergence and domination of forms of capital (that rely on our attention span to such a significant degree) that we see today. So let’s be weary of these bromides when we hear them.

I can’t support the return of the NBA, or any other sport, right now. I’d rather the critical mass of our attentions keep circulating through the uncomfortable questions that are confronting us: ongoing racial disparities, coronavirus outbreaks, electoral failures in Georgia and whether or not those predict electoral failures this November, etc.

Please discuss.

 

[DasJazz]

Bring back sports.

 

[Troat Guru]

Interesting observations, non trivial at all...I have to think a bit about that.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Agreed.

Also, Covid isn’t going away without a vaccine.

 

[Nate505]

Let’s set aside the idealisms and bromides like ‘sports bring people together’ for just a minute and consider something...

How much of the activism right now—critical and effective activism—is being fueled by the fact that people have been without their usual Entertainment distractions?

That’s kind of an awkward wording... to conceptualize the catalysis of a reaction in terms of a LACK of something isn’t without its challenges. But I think you get my drift: most people have become more dominated by a set of non-stop Entertainment values than they’d like to acknowledge, and these values keep us in a sort of suspension that isn’t conducive to change. In fact, they may very well be directly resistant to change: they have us where they want us; our attention spans are the raw material for their capitalist production.

Bromides like ‘sports bring people together’ we’re authored in a different time, well before the emergence and domination of forms of capital (that rely on our attention span to such a significant degree) that we see today. So let’s be weary of these bromides when we hear them.

I can’t support the return of the NBA, or any other sport, right now. I’d rather the critical mass of our attentions keep circulating through the uncomfortable questions that are confronting us: ongoing racial disparities, coronavirus outbreaks, electoral failures in Georgia and whether or not those predict electoral failures this November, etc.

Please discuss.

The critical mass of our attentions will eventually go somewhere else. It's exhausting/uncomfortable/whatever to be politically active all the time. At least for most people. It's why so few people are activists in this country.

If it's not the NBA it will be the NHL, or golf, or a new season of some show in Netflix.

If NBA players really want to keep this message of social change in the spotlight, there's nothing better than an actual spotlight to do it with.

 

[fishonjazz]

Agreed.

Also, Covid isn’t going away without a vaccine.

Even with a vaccine it probably won't go away, especially since many idiots won't even get the vaccine for fear that bill gates is trying to control them

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[Saint Cy of JFC]

Sports being gone has improved my life overall and I think the world as a whole (besides people losing their jobs who work in the industry and aren't multi millionaires)

 

[infection]

Even with a vaccine it probably won't go away, especially since many idiots won't even get the vaccine for fear that bill gates is trying to control them

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Don’t underestimate the psychodynamic principles at play where the societal collective will submit to what would be perceived as an acceptable resolution from an appropriate savior. Not in terms of people getting it or it sufficiently suppressing the virus, but its presence as the culmination of “the process” to produce a palatable solution to treat the widespread fear and anxiety. When we have a tangible “Hah! This is why!” solution, that completely shuts down all the rubes in their ignorant arrogance, only then may life resume.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Even with a vaccine it probably won't go away, especially since many idiots won't even get the vaccine for fear that bill gates is trying to control them

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But we’ll at least have brakes then. There will be any kind of answer to this.

 

[fishonjazz]

Don’t underestimate the psychodynamic principles at play where the societal collective will submit to what would be perceived as an acceptable resolution from an appropriate savior. Not in terms of people getting it or it sufficiently suppressing the virus, but its presence as the culmination of “the process” to produce a palatable solution to treat the widespread fear and anxiety. When we have a tangible “Hah! This is why!” solution, that completely shuts down all the rubes in their ignorant arrogance, only then may life resume.

Huh?

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[Beer]

Austin Rivers providing a logical counter arguement to Kyrie.



I think the season should just be cancelled, but I understand the financial ramifications so they should just suck it up and play 20 more games or whatever it will be for most of them.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I don’t know what the right answer is, but the distractions from the protests should be measured against the huge platform they have... but the biggest thing they need to understand is not playing will have enormous financial consequences.

Here is what will happen if the season is canceled... nbas tv partners will be able to use the Force Majeure clause and get a bunch of money back... the nba then does it to the players requiring them to get their money back... the cba is then torn up and they have to renegotiate a new cba.

The nba owners will have huge leverage as next year there may not be fans... so they will dig in and the players either sign a shorty deal for them or they go without paychecks for the year. So you are talking billions in loses and the loss of a major part of their platform for 18 months.

I think some of the players think... eh we will avoid this bubble issue and stay home... nbd... welllllll not so fast.