Its all about timing, I just think I was brought in at the right time, the right time frame and now that it has come, its just all set for me now. I cant explain it. I dont know if any of you all can explain it, why this is happening now, but Im very excited Im in this show.
LeBron James, the 18-year-old basketball phenomenonas reported by the New York Timesresponds to correct indications that he would be the first player selected in the NBA Draft.
If youre not into sports, you might have missed this kid, but it would be hard. He is being touted as the next savior of the NBA, the next Michael Jordan in terms of marketability if not skill. He already has a shoe deal worth more than the Bolivian GNP (which leads me to think of Mike Tyson when he said I guess Ill just fade into Bolivian after being beaten by Lennox Lewis, but I digress).
Although LeBron stops short of objectifying himself, he does place himself in the dead-center of things. And its understandable when one considers his name from a Francophone perspective. Being comprised of the definite article le, he is only one space away from being The Bron. Consider, then, that if he were UnBron, with all its implications of indefiniteness, he couldnt have the same impact. Would you buy shoes named after A Bron, even if he were really good at basketball?
Theres also a very interesting allusion to fate, a sense that the phenom LeBron is part of some larger cosmic significance, or embroiled with in it, that he is a product of the divine Will. Im not referring to God here, in the Judeo-Christian sense, but to god in the natural animism sense, that divine natural power that exists in everything, to that greater Will that presides in judgement over sporting contests. In every game the will of two sides are pitted against each other and the greater of those wills always emerges, but to say that one will or person is the greatest is wrong because that person or will is only an aspect of the greater Will.
I always get really worked up when basketball season gets close.
LeBron James, the 18-year-old basketball phenomenonas reported by the New York Timesresponds to correct indications that he would be the first player selected in the NBA Draft.
If youre not into sports, you might have missed this kid, but it would be hard. He is being touted as the next savior of the NBA, the next Michael Jordan in terms of marketability if not skill. He already has a shoe deal worth more than the Bolivian GNP (which leads me to think of Mike Tyson when he said I guess Ill just fade into Bolivian after being beaten by Lennox Lewis, but I digress).
Although LeBron stops short of objectifying himself, he does place himself in the dead-center of things. And its understandable when one considers his name from a Francophone perspective. Being comprised of the definite article le, he is only one space away from being The Bron. Consider, then, that if he were UnBron, with all its implications of indefiniteness, he couldnt have the same impact. Would you buy shoes named after A Bron, even if he were really good at basketball?
Theres also a very interesting allusion to fate, a sense that the phenom LeBron is part of some larger cosmic significance, or embroiled with in it, that he is a product of the divine Will. Im not referring to God here, in the Judeo-Christian sense, but to god in the natural animism sense, that divine natural power that exists in everything, to that greater Will that presides in judgement over sporting contests. In every game the will of two sides are pitted against each other and the greater of those wills always emerges, but to say that one will or person is the greatest is wrong because that person or will is only an aspect of the greater Will.
I always get really worked up when basketball season gets close.
sure, Freddy here isn't talking about a collective/divine will, but i'll de-contextualize him to serve my own twisted endsperhaps more of a Will to Flower than a Will to Power.
and, you know, the World Cup and New York's Fashion Week do the same thing to me.
are you a fatalist?
but when a culture (15th century Europe) sees the sum of knowledge perfected by the Greeks, a discovery of something that they HADN'T found leads to a drive for newness rather than classical imitation (this is, of course, a huge oversimplification of the Renaissance->Enlightenment thrust). i am by no means implying that the contributions of the Greeks were not monumental; they were. but discovering something new made them look less omnipotent, not a fault by any means. it changes not the Greeks but, rather, the intellectual perception of them during the time in question.
and perhaps i oversimplified in other respects.
republicanism- i meant the advent of large, corporate-acting Empire (rather than feudally-aligned nation-states) more than Plato's Republic, which doesn't put forth as much politic as it should to make an argument that it actually births republicanism. but i was vague.
the same sort of couldn't-find-the-perfect-word logic applies to deism.
i suppose i meant both as popular movements rather than as actual births of concepts.
thanks for actually having it out with me. i respect and cherish you for this.