CNN Thinks They Know Why We Like Violence--err, I mean MMA

would anyone watch CNN? Or FoxNews, or MSNBC ect,. It’s all tabloid crap these days.

“Psychology experts” don’t know crap. MMA, just like what people used to call “extreme sports” in the 90s, is on the rise because it’s fun and because it allows you to escape the usual rules for a moment. I like golf, I like tennis, but come on, the adrenalin rush you get when you drop a decent cliff on a snowboard or when you try to beat the shit out of someone in the ring is second to none.

You can intellectualize that stuff for hours, apply a Freudian reading grid to it or whatever you like but in the end people who like those sports like them because it makes them feel alive.

Those sports are like a breath of fresh air in our hygienist societies. For a moment, you’re allowed to get smashed by a stupidly huge wave, fall on your head trying to clear a handrail with your skateboard or fight with someone who is up for it.

"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off. "
Tyler Durden