Posted by Kenneth Anderson: PS Further Thoughts to the Berkowitz Post, on Sports: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_06_07-2009_06_13.shtml#1244931110
This is a post script to the post below on conservatism and the curriculum, only this is specifically about what I said there concerning sports and politcs: So. Okay. I have to make An Important Confession. I don't know anything about sports. It seems kinda strange to admit, but since my childhood sport was ... fencing ... I somehow barely played basketball, baseball, and never played football. I don't actually know how football is scored. So when I say in the post, "I understand it if it's sports ..." what I mean is, understand in a completely abstract sense. Experiencing a general existential unease at, I don't know, dying without knowing anything about sports, professional or collegiate, I've been thinking in my dotage that maybe I should take up sports the way I once took up wine as a non-drinker who did all the winebuying for my wife (she figured out I'd buy better quality wine for her than she would). That is, take up wine as a quasi-Wittgensteinean exercise in seeing if I could accurately use the language of wine (shades of mushroom, hints of blueberry, etc., etc.) in a more than plausible way without ever having experienced the actual sensation. It turns out this is not very hard with wine. It might be some kind of alternative Turing test. _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
