Waffle
12-31-2009, 01:14 PM
If any of you want an interesting experience, watch an organized sports competition (I'm watching basketball right now) and pretend like you have no knowledge of the sport or organized sports in general.
First grasping the concept of rules and that the players are bound by these rules, how it modifies their behavior (obviously the best rule-free way to score baskets is to knock out the other team and shoot repeatedly), and the fact that so many people have gathered to watch the event, each bound by loyalty through geography to their team, with their emotional well-being contingent on the performance of their team, is a really interesting experience.
I don't know why, but keeping the first paragraph in mind, watching the players run back and forth as a basket is scored is probably the weirdest experience for me. I'm just putting it out there.
First grasping the concept of rules and that the players are bound by these rules, how it modifies their behavior (obviously the best rule-free way to score baskets is to knock out the other team and shoot repeatedly), and the fact that so many people have gathered to watch the event, each bound by loyalty through geography to their team, with their emotional well-being contingent on the performance of their team, is a really interesting experience.
I don't know why, but keeping the first paragraph in mind, watching the players run back and forth as a basket is scored is probably the weirdest experience for me. I'm just putting it out there.