There is a long-standing, unreasoning, petit-bourgeois/Pabloist anti-golf sensibility on this list. I think it stems from an aversion to fertilizer, plus a lack of appreciation of the extent to which workers play golf at public courses. There may also be some resentment over the deprivation of green space for naked hippies to gambol through. There is also the ageist bias against those of us too old for hackey-sack.
I've been a caddy and a golfer. The former pastime sharpened my sense of class struggle, plus it got me some good money and taught me some filthy jokes related by the tough Italian kids from Paterson. I heartily recommend it to the youth. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:38 PM, David B. Shemano <[email protected]>wrote: > I just returned from a brief vacation in Carmel, CA, and discovered my > email clogged with dozens of email regarding the propriety of pro-Obama > posts. Fascinating reading. Thanks for 10 minutes of my life I will never > get back deleting the emails. > > Talking about Obama, he loves golf. Plays it as much as he can. While in > Carmel, I played a round at Pebble Beach, which is one of the ultimate life > events for a golfer. So I ask you PEN-L members: > > 1. My sense is there an an anti-golf progressive sensibility. Why? > 2. From my persective, the Pebble Beach golf course is one of the most > serene, aesthetically pleasing, uses of a majestic coastline imaginable. I > truly believe that my life is better because the golf course exists (even if > I never played it), in the sense my life is better because Mozart wrote a > concerto, or the Eiffel Tower was built. It is difficult to imagine that it > could be built today for a variety of reasons, but, assuming a hypothetical > socialist California, could or should it be built? > 3. The golf course offers and encourages the use of caddies. What is the > correct progressive response to the use of caddies? If use the caddie, I am > creating a master-servant anti-democratic relationship with another human > being, while if I don't use the caddie, I am depriving another human being > of limited means his daily income. What is the correct choice? > > David Shemano > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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