One thing to break free.
Taking advantage of the postponement of the Olympic Games for the first time in the history of the Olympic Games due to the impact of masks, let's talk about sports.
In the "Animal World", a long-established TV documentary, you can often see the frolicking scenes of the lion cubs chasing each other in the lion pack, and the TV narrator will always remind the audience at this time that this seemingly purposeless behavior actually has very great practical significance, and it is through the training of this behavior that these little guys gradually master the hunting skills and enhance their physical functions, so as to lay a vital foundation for survival in the future.
When it comes to the breeding season, the young male monkeys in the monkey pack will always try to challenge the current monkey king, and the two sides will fight for their lives for their position in the population, and the winner will eventually get the right to mate. At this time, the commentary will always emphasize the importance of this behavior, because the selection and reproduction of strong genes determine the existence and continuation of an animal population.
Of course, this kind of performance exists in almost all animal populations, and of course, humans are no exception, and the original purpose of human sports is probably because of this.
Whoever runs faster in the track race may be a must to save one's life when being chased by fierce beasts on the grassland; Whoever throws farther in the field may be the gatekeeper skill of knocking down and capturing the prey in the jungle; The superb skills such as diving and racing displayed by athletes in the swimming pool may have been practiced by humans for the purpose of saving themselves when the flood came; Gymnastics such as horizontal bars and rings can still reveal a little bit of our posture when we used to collect fruits on the trees. One-on-one competitions such as boxing and wrestling may have a similar relationship with the competition for mating rights among monkeys, while archery and shooting competitions on the shooting range are directly born out of hunting and human cannibalism for greater gain.
But from today's point of view, Bolt's time of 9.58 seconds in 100 meters is only 37 kilometers per hour on the car's odometer, and he is not qualified to go to high speed with this speed; The world record in the weightlifting class is 396 kilograms, which is just the lowest scale for an ordinary truck-mounted crane lifting weight scale. In today's society, the laws of most countries in the world have mandatory provisions on monogamy, the so-called "equality between men and women, freedom of marriage"; Injuries caused by street fights are punished as illegal offenses anywhere on the planet, and the so-called "hospital for defeat and jail for victory" is punishable.
As one of the 12-member tug-of-war team in the class, your team won the championship of the tug-of-war competition of the school's senior first grade group, and in the process you did your best, maybe for class honor, maybe for personal satisfaction, but definitely not to practice this ability in the future to drag the hunted rhinoceros back to the cave with these friends; Tyson knocked out Bruce in the first round of the boxing match in 109 seconds, and he must have been so ruthless to keep his WBA belt and win a huge prize money, but definitely not to snatch the opponent's girlfriend.
The progress of human science and technology has erased the actual role of physical activity in enhancing our ability to survive; The progress of human civilization has weakened the evolutionary selection of physical activity to optimize our strong genetic inheritance; In short, the all-round progress of mankind has basically eliminated all the practical significance of physical activity, so that the skills in sports can break free from the specific needs of survival in reality, and the development of sports has broken free from the evolutionary guiding role in reality.
Furthermore, modern sports, especially competitive sports, have been highly positioned at the virtual level of individual realization, social value, collective and even national honor, and have not only completely broken away from all the meanings of reality, but even the actual behavior of sports itself. In layman's terms, as long as you can win the championship, win bonuses and even raise the national flag and play the national anthem, it is the ultimate goal, so that the specific choice of which sports to engage in training has become secondary to a group of people engaged in sports; On the other hand, this group of people who are fighting on the field is regarded by our modern society as a representative symbol of the human spirit, and has broken away from the actual concrete competition situation itself, and has been elevated to the Olympic motto, which represents higher, faster, stronger, and now with the human values of greater solidarity itself, whether they are engaged in summer sports suitable for low-altitude areas or ice and snow sports suitable for high-latitude areas.
The matter of sports has broken free from the matter of sports itself.
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