Post#22 » by ElectricMayhem » Mon Nov 28, 2016 2:01 am
We have a poster who, during our horrible drought, always seemed to be on the GB hyping up how great the Pistons were. Now that we are actually on the upswing and a playoff team, all he can do is talk about how horrible the team is. To me, that is a good reminder that our opinions of the team are not always (or never) constructed in an objective reality. They are colored by our current living situation, various personality ticks that cause you to either identify with or reject a specific group of players, how you were raised, the weather. Every aspect of your life provides the context and thus the filter through which you see the team. So when all these different people gaze upon the same object and see completely different things, it doesn't say much about the object they are looking at so much as it does about their own filters.
We have a diverse array of posters with different intensity levels of fandom, different personalities, geographical locales, sports philosophies, etc. While occasionally my gag reflex may be triggered by posts I deem as illogical, understanding where different people come from is an important skill to have - especially in our current political climate.
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