Big Ewis
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As I was taking a shhit; I get bored during that, so interrogate myself with random questions; I suddenly thought of a surrealistic scenario where my team would constantly win a ***le. Like, an enormous streak from now on til, like, when I even possibly stop caring about Rugby, in about another 40 years.
So, my question: would you ever get bored of seeing your team win the ***le every single year (let's say 6N, or 4N) ? It's really a deeper question than it looks, but without getting cheaply philosophical: the obvious answer would be 'no'. And then again, a cliché answer would be 'yes'. But would we really ever get tired of it ? The only real-life example I can think of that could come in handy here is Clermont former invincibility at home. I'm sure the fans never got tired of winning during that 76-game win streak...
But in a context like the Six Nations, it's different. The stakes, the psychology of it, the effect on the fans. As surreal a vision as it is, I think it's interesting to ask the question: would it ever get boring ? Would you stop caring after 10 years ? 20 years ?
What would it say about us if we didn't get bored of it ? Would that make us petty and vain; tiny little creatures that cheer with the same intensity for something that's been repeating for far too long ? Or is it a very exaggerated paradigm of how the "small things" in life never get old, and human beings as a species are so easy to please (that even in perpetual re-occurrence, they maintain the excitement) ?
It would also mean we're all, at least as a vast majority, amazingly selfish and so self-centered (which we are, anyways) that we would settle for winning all the time and not caring about others at all. Like everything we "belong to" is all that matters, and all the rest, all of the "otherness" means exactly nothing.
We are a tiny little thing, aren't we...and pandas aren't bears.
So, my question: would you ever get bored of seeing your team win the ***le every single year (let's say 6N, or 4N) ? It's really a deeper question than it looks, but without getting cheaply philosophical: the obvious answer would be 'no'. And then again, a cliché answer would be 'yes'. But would we really ever get tired of it ? The only real-life example I can think of that could come in handy here is Clermont former invincibility at home. I'm sure the fans never got tired of winning during that 76-game win streak...
But in a context like the Six Nations, it's different. The stakes, the psychology of it, the effect on the fans. As surreal a vision as it is, I think it's interesting to ask the question: would it ever get boring ? Would you stop caring after 10 years ? 20 years ?
What would it say about us if we didn't get bored of it ? Would that make us petty and vain; tiny little creatures that cheer with the same intensity for something that's been repeating for far too long ? Or is it a very exaggerated paradigm of how the "small things" in life never get old, and human beings as a species are so easy to please (that even in perpetual re-occurrence, they maintain the excitement) ?
It would also mean we're all, at least as a vast majority, amazingly selfish and so self-centered (which we are, anyways) that we would settle for winning all the time and not caring about others at all. Like everything we "belong to" is all that matters, and all the rest, all of the "otherness" means exactly nothing.
We are a tiny little thing, aren't we...and pandas aren't bears.