long suffrin' boulez fan wrote:payitforward wrote:He doesn't fully explain Plato's allegory 100% correctly, but who cares? Change my vote -- draft the kid!
If the Wiz do draft him, do you think that, at fan appreciation day, he’ll explain Jaques Derrida to me?
"So like, the idea that your opponent is in fact your opposition in the game is a false dichotomy. Really we are cooperation on this bassketball court, there are no losers, we are all winners here. Even the disappointment of a missed shot or 'lost' game, is an opportunity to gain persepctive, and you know, in practice, attempt to improve. Ultimately that way lies disappointment, there will never be perfection, a perfect game, a perfect player. The players driven in this way by hatred of the absense of winning are themselves charicaristically empty people. Consider the best of the best, does a guy like Michael Jordan feel fufilled? Even six championships was never enough, and with his rage to win he never seemed happy, you understand. There is a subtext to the cocept that his mickname is 'Air'. does that connote emptiness? Or perhaps that he is of such a lofty height that he is alone, like uh, uh, a hermit at the top of a mountain. But true fulfillment comes from recognizing that imperfection creates beauty. That your opponents are your, kinda, dance partners, and in striving, you attain. I mean that's why we like competition, and why people cheer, because there is a chance you fail, so, that adds the thrill. If we won all the time without effort it would be boring, right? And if anyone could do it, if it was easy, no one would watch. The imperfection in a loss provides the beauty of a win, it's the imperfection inherent in any creative act. So it underlines the essential emptiness of existence by providing bright moments of you know, a chance at failure narrowly avoided. That's why Overtime is so much fun. And also hey, it puts digits on my paycheck. You want me to sign the back, or on the front?"
