Re: Let's talk about joy

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:01:15 +0200, Goldmund <user@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I've followed the post-final posts with the difficulty typical of
these moments on rss (thousands of posts, hundreds of morons whose
mono-neuronic brains wake up just once every 4 years).
I still have about 1000 messages to check, if I ever do it, and I
skipped tons of garbage posted by idiots à la John Shocked or
ITALIA!!!

What I could hardly found, though, was JOY.
There were hundreds of posts of sore losers, and hundreds of bad
winners, that could only shout out loud in a way that had a lot of
rage but no happiness.

Nobody was happy with the result. Not even an Italian could be happy
with the result.

After "Italy-Australia: tale of a game", here's my small contribution
to rss about the feelings involved in this WC.

I haven't read that but I'll make sure I do. Should be interesting
reading you trying to defend the indefensible. But I could be wrong,
so I'll go looking for it.

It's dedicated to all the people who never experienced it, with the
hope that once in their life they have the opportunity. I felt this
joy already twice in my life, and I'm very grateful of it.
So

You're lucky. But just once most of us would like to experience a
world cup with no cheating, no atrocious officiating, etc. Look at it
this way, it's not a lack of joy on my part, it's just that I'm aware
of how good it could be to watch. It's all about potential. When I
criticise the USA it's not just because I hate the country with a
passion, it's because I know all about the base of freedom and
democracy it was founded on, and how the entire country has gone to
***. It's very disappointing to realise that something that could
have been so great is just absolute *** in every single facet of its
current existence. That might sound depressing, but it's not, believe
me. It's only because I know how good it *could* be. That is the basis
for the disappointment.

It's the same with the world cup. I'm not pissed off because my team
didn't win, I'm pissed off because your team did. Because you had to
spread the nose of the USA's only striker all over his face because
you knew they had nobody else who could score. It was easier to play
the game with a man down than to let him stay on the field and risk
him scoring. I'm pissed off that you had to cheat blatantly in the
93rd minute against Australia to win. I'm not pissed off that
Australia lost. I sort of expected it. But I also expected you to win
the game through cheating, and I was doubly pissed off to be
absolutely correct in my assessment of what was going to happen.

LET'S TALK ABOUT JOY

Your joy is fake. You cannot possibly be happy with that ***. I
would rather both Australi and Holland lose than to see them play like
Italy does. Not only are you bad, you have to cheat to win. That must
be so depressing.

No, let's not talk about joy. Because you can't possibly be feeling
it. What you're feeling is relief more than anything else. You should
get in touch with your emotions.

--
That seems to point up a significant difference between
Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't
understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says:
"I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?"
--
Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett.
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