Post-soccertarians
Mistaking principles for strategy, plus an UPDATE
It’s a new dawn at the Twadpockle Report.
I need a new approach to the writing schedule, so I will be experimenting, and we will have a new weekly rhythm, or lack of it. I still hope to average about one feature a week.
Today’s brief piece analogizes a trend I have seen in several movements, and it has been building again in one that I’m a member of now.
I confess, I am disillusioned with soccertarians.
Soccer attracts many of us with its seductive simplicity: NOTHING ELSE COUNTS except scoring goals. But sadly, trying to score a goal all the time is not a winning strategy!
This makes soccer hopelessly flawed. I now consider myself post-soccer, and I chuckle—fondly but with frustration—at those simpletons who remain soccertarians. I seek a more pragmatic game, in which we cleverly roll the ball back, send it sideways across the field, even pass it to a teammate behind us! Such street-wise maneuvers are critical if we are to work around the forces blocking us.
But such a game would not be soccer, because in soccer, NOTHING ELSE COUNTS except scoring goals.
I am grateful to soccer for the lessons it has taught me, and I do still believe as much as ever in winning games by having the most points, but it is time to move on. I hope to awaken more and more soccertarians, to discover a new pragmatic game—maybe basketball—in which we don’t just dogmatically try to score goals all the time.
Liberated from soccertarianism, I am sure we will find it together.
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