I got it all figured out, and to think it took me 23 years to figure it all out is a sad sad thing.

According to all the people who know “best” like parents and teachers sports are good for children and teenagers growing up. Organized team sports like football and cricket and even stuff like badminton and TT are all designed and encouraged in the schools for supposedly to encourage character development and social skills and improve the ability to work in teams.

I say it’s Crap!!

People always think they know better than the other person. And all (almost all) have a problem with obeying orders. But the human civilization has figured out a way to change this basic human behavior which is counter-productive in terms of human civilization.

Sports are the solution. They are just another way of brainwashing a young person in to the mould of the society. Sports are nothing but conditioning a person in the obeying orders and conditioning an exclusive set of people for issuing orders. (Sound familiar??)

Every sports played within the school system is based on a single frame. There’s a coach, and there’s a captain. They make all the decisions and the other players are supposed to follow them. What this does is that it makes people conditioned in a way such that when they step out to the real world the average person is quite comfortable with taking orders from another person, simply on the merit of that person being “higher up”.

The captain is conditioned to “lead” and the rest are conditioned to “follow”. And there we have the basic foundation of human society; (A few) leaders, and the masses who follow.

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