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I'm not suggesting banning anything. I'm suggesting it's not entertaining, or harmless fun, but a kind if insidious disease. I think there are better things for us to think about, write about, make tv about, write books about, hell, even name bicycles after, than some meathead adrenaline junkies who won some races. Much, much better. I think our society is the poorer for loving, idolising, worshipping people who are marginally better at doing something fast, because they get loads of privelege and attention and support to do that, than some other similarly priveleged and physically apt people, all in the name of 'national pride'.
We're mugs if we give a toss about something as base as going faster than the other guy, basically. Like fucking animals, neanderthals. It makes me shocked just how much importance 'sporting prowess' is given by our consciousnesses.