Blogging

In case you were too lazy to read the first post, blogging is kind of a new thing for me. That is to say, I have never started a blog before, researched blogs, or even read any blogs consistently. Therefore, I was completely unprepared for the intellectual demands such a responsibility. I have found myself sitting in the passenger seat of the car (yes I am not old enough to drive in case you were also too lazy to read my profile) wondering what I could write about. As I wrote the above passage, I realized exactly what I should write this entry about. However, I will not change the title to reflect what the latter half of the blog will inevitably contain.

During one of my more recent football practices, I, in an exhaustion-induced delirium, began pondering what is probably one of the most troublesome aspects of human nature. It all started when I fully comprehended that the better my team did, the worse the players on the other team did by comparison. Naturally, no one likes to lose, especially if losing entails, as it did during this practice, bear crawls (if you don't know what these are, I will just say that I tore off several square inches of my palms doing them once: they are hell). I therefore began to sympathize with the other team during this practice game and felt an obligation to lose. I naturally did not follow this obligation and continued competing to my fullest extent. I thought to myself, however, that sports are the manifestation of a dark side of human nature. No matter how well we do, what we really care about is doing better than our fellow man. This trait has huge evolutionary advantages (it promotes competition, which is a vital aspect of natural selection), but when analyzed morally, it can almost be classified as sadistic. So now I pose the question: are humans inherently sadistic? Did the Cro-Magnon man laugh at the pain of his peers? I personally am not qualified to answer this question. In fact, I do not believe that anyone can accurately answer that question, as no one currently alive was there. I personally am confident that modern society has tamed our innate callousness. As for the degree of actual sadism that took place, I have no idea.

By the way, my friend started a blog, and he's posted a link to my blog on his, so I figure that I might as well reciprocate.

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