American Castration
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- Oct 9, 2023
The 8-minute mark on is poignant, talking about how Karl Jobst cannot just take an "L", literally.Gen X Gamer is trying to message Karl telling him to get out of his patter echo-chamber.
There was an excellent article around 2021 called something like, "The Lessons of Sports" or some such. It was written by a Boomer or early X-er. The guy was shocked at seeing his grandchildren and grand-nephews and their peers just spazzing out whenever their side (implied they were shitlibs) lost at anything, even random political debates at the dinner table. He noted how all the kids who played sports always handled losing more calmly. That's life. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Either way, if you competed well, you walk away with some measure of pride, and lessons learned.
These kids who grow up never being pushed, never facing legitimate competition, never learn that. They think that reacting to losses like this:
....is totally acceptable.
If Karl Jobst had wrestled, or played rugby or soccer or whatever they do in Australia, he would've never been in this position, and he definitely would've grasped that he lost a long, long time ago.