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4 hours ago, a.d._510_n_ok said:

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Fanaticism can mark a break in emotional development. For many, sports is a surrogate means of fulfilling the human existential drive to effect change in their environment. As a child, we experience our environment as an external locus of control over our internal drives and desires. In the right environment we learn the consequence of our actions and the effect it has on others. During puberty we develop a greater sense of internal locus of control that often gets expressed as rebellion. Again, in the right environment we gain greater self awareness by seeing ourselves in the reflection of how others react to our behavior. This is a very formative stage of development where we begin constructing our identity and managing the interplay between the internal and external worlds. Stepping from childhood into adulthood we develop the drive to effect change on our environment be it constructive or destructive. This also marks a point of passage to either retreat back into an immature external locus of control and abandon self identity, or face the challenge of owning and controlling one's own life. The later is when we seek out ways to effect that change. Some seek out like minded others to construct a team,  for many the military provides a way of surrendering self will (and often self identity) to a team. For others it might be academics, joining a gang, or actually PLAYING a sport. For someone holding an external locus of control, that drive to effect change is experienced through others in the external environment, ie fanaticism, or even a parent who lives their life through their children. 

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bread and circuses

noun
something, as extravagant entertainment, offered as an expedient means of pacifying discontent or diverting attention from a source of grievance.

 

 

A phrase used by a Roman writer to deplore the declining heroism of Romans after the Roman Republic ceased to exist and the Roman Empire began: “Two things only the people anxiously desire — bread and circuses.” The government kept the Roman populace happy by distributing free food and staging huge spectacles. (See Colosseum.)

 

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“Bread and circuses” has become a convenient general term for government policies that seek short-term solutions to public unrest.

 

 

 

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