Leaving aside the rage I feel whenever someone claims that atheism is synonomous with immorality, and the irritation at anyone who redefines an already useful word, adding more confusion to the already addled english language...
I think there is value in playing team sports. What I think people miss is that you can get the exact same value from playing in a large music group, which is a much more suitably geeky option!
Basically, it's good to experience being a team aimed at a common goal, how it works, how much you have to focus on the 'us' rather than 'me', and how it can feel pretty damn exciting. It's excellent preparation for the workplace. It's a good antidote for the some of the social ineptitude often ascribed to geeks...but it's an even better antidote to the selfishness so prevelent in the mainstream.
I think being a sports fan is pretty much the antithesis of this, actually, since it's all about cheering or bitching and NOT contributing. The same cannot really be said of symphony fans...though it would amuse me to see symphony fan hoolaganism.
Regardless, it's not geeky one way or t'other, just something I think it's good to experience.
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Date: 2009-11-17 05:34 pm (UTC)I think there is value in playing team sports. What I think people miss is that you can get the exact same value from playing in a large music group, which is a much more suitably geeky option!
Basically, it's good to experience being a team aimed at a common goal, how it works, how much you have to focus on the 'us' rather than 'me', and how it can feel pretty damn exciting. It's excellent preparation for the workplace. It's a good antidote for the some of the social ineptitude often ascribed to geeks...but it's an even better antidote to the selfishness so prevelent in the mainstream.
I think being a sports fan is pretty much the antithesis of this, actually, since it's all about cheering or bitching and NOT contributing. The same cannot really be said of symphony fans...though it would amuse me to see symphony fan hoolaganism.
Regardless, it's not geeky one way or t'other, just something I think it's good to experience.