The Sinner In Me

I was a philosophy major, so I ask you to indulge me...

Why did Tony Dungy win the Super Bowl? According to him, it was because of his faith. I think that's ridiculous. If it were up to his faith there would be no winner, because there would be no competition, every one would deeply feel an unconditional urge to help their neighbor-- there are no winners and losers in Christianity, just winners. Dungy did partake in the competition, his team left full of pride and accomplishment, Luvie Smith's full of disappointment and loss, therefore Tony has a desire to conquer, but no faith. And the reason, ultimately, why his team won the Super Bowl was not master strategy. Listen, football is a set science with set actions and reactions, and assuming that both sides have equally complete knowledge of the science, over the course of the game, the measures and countermeasures should cancel out. No, Dungy won because his bloodthirsty pack of savages were a little more thirsty and a whole lot more savage than the other guy's. So Tony Dungy is America's role model, the faithful sheep, the good Christian, a GOOD person. But it looks to me like he's nothing more than a hypocrite and an idiot. Though Dungy is stupid, it would appear he's still a good person. I disagree-- a stupid person can in no way be a good person.

America, if you're reading (and judging from my hit counter you are), we need to chastise stupidity. It goes against our nature. Aristotle, Metaphysics, line 1: "All men, by nature, desire to know." How proud Aristotle would be at our progress, that in 2,000 years, the world's dominant nation has completely suppressed that urge! Stupid people, sheep, are inhuman. They are irrational and overly emotional. They can not understand the causes of things, they have no ability to formulate solutions. They are impetuous, they often start wars for no good reason. They don't see the larger picture, they are too egotistical, even those like Dungy, a guy that is probably so solipsistically wrapped up in his own faith, he doesn't make time for hearing other prospectives, specifically atheistic ones. (Which, by the way, I'm not championing.) Irrationality breeds greed and the desire to crush. It does not make the world a better place.

Is it just me, or is this really depressing? I guess that we could content ourselves with the fact that improvements have been occurring throughout history. We are no longer neanderthals, we cooked meat, we built cities, crushed fascism. But I think we have regressed somewhat, that present-day America has eradicated some earlier progress. It's as though Karl Marx had never penned "religion is the opiate of the masses." It as though Latin has been entirely forgotten, that the Latin word religio meant bind back, enslave. In a country with so many great technological advantages, specifically, the availability of computers and the educational abilities of the internet, why has this happened? I can think of only two reasons. First, the majority of the human race doesn't have the intellectual capacity to realize what's going on, at which point you need to ask why our punditry, why our political leaders, the intellectually fit, are not taking counter measures. Second, the majority doesn't want to use their intellectual capacity, they are fine with being sheep, fine with being animals, don't care about being human, and that the intellectually fit, succumbing to their own irrational greed, are fine with them remaining that way. Alas, there is nobody to drag us from the cave. We are forever doomed to darkness. Jesus Christ it's time for another French Revolution!

But hey, I am just a Communist and an atheistic asshole. The sheep and Tony Dungy have the right idea. Eventually, they'll be slaughtered and then they'll be in heaven.