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"The fallout ranges from warping one tournament's results to raising questions about other players' legitimacy and also about the sport's future."

"To put the experience in perspective for fans of other sports..."

"This is not what sports are about."

You'd think they were talking about a real sport but it was chess. Older generations equate sports with physical abilities. Some activities like billiards, darts, curling (the ice game), and others require skill but are not based on athletic prowess. Golf may reside in a small purgatory but if a cigarette-smoking obese drunk can excel....

Spelling bee competitions appear on sport channels. As do eating competitions - we extol and applaud how many hotdogs can be consumed in ten minutes (and purging afterwards) while a huge percentage of people go hungry each night. Nothing sporting about those except the heartache or heartburn from being defeated. And don't mock air guitar .

E-games are the new sport. South Park nailed it: Gamers are jacked up on soda and processed foods. Getting to the top in any endeavor requires some talent or skill. Sure, a competitive element drives the neurotic behavior but that alone makes not a sport.

And it doesn't have to be sports. Perspective, or lack of it as the case may be, is what drives the Dunning-Kruger effect to new heights. Every profession, hobby, or activity has participants who drive the insanity beyond hope of recovery. Beyond any rational explanation.

To the participants, it would be sacrilegious to imply anything but being the most finely tuned specimens of physical and mental perfection. Psychology says this is a symptom of delusional thinking, mental health issues, or something else just as sinister.

Likewise, we tend to think the things we do are holy. Our goods, services, or whatever are perfect, inscrutable, and any suggestion otherwise is a direct attack on our egos. Even when math or science proves we are wrong, there is always a loophole for a warped mind to sidestep culpability or scapegoat something else.

As a jewelry maker, skewed perspective issues are commonplace and a cancer to the industry. Part of it stems from how simple it "seems" to "make" "jewelry." Anyone is correct to believe they can do it just as good because it takes no skill or talent to make junk! Chainmaille is notorious in this sense.

So these people create stunning, perfect, flawless goods from day one, at least in their own mind. If they can't convince themselves of their wonderment then how are they going to fool others? Perspective is only an opinion unless it's wrong. And no one will admit otherwise.

Posted by M: June 22, 2023

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