Re: Plain Trouble on "Da Plains" (all AU posts here)
I’m glad you admit that the trees are insignificant in the grand scheme of things. They are plants – plentiful and replaceable. I wish your brethren could understand the same context.
Perhaps you prefer an analogy with animals. Say a tradition involves flying a bird around a stadium filled with 80,000 people, which is not something a bird would naturally do. Say this bird occasionally crashed into windows and goal posts. The tradition continues. Say a study is done by the school that says the bird is developing CTE due to continually banging its head. The tradition continues. The bird is now close to death due to head trauma. The tradition continues. Harvey shoots the bird dead. Fans claim they love their sacred bird and Harvey deprived said bird of a long, healthy life. A rational observer would rightly condemn both Harvey and the damaging, circus-like stunt the bird was forced to do throughout its life. Only a deranged fan base would claim to love and view as sacred that which they were slowly destroying.
Maybe you don’t understand the purpose of an analogy. It wasn’t my analogy anyway; I just corrected it to show that the damage done to the trees initially and persistently was not some act of God but rather the act of Auburn fans in the name of tradition. The analogy is fine.
I’m glad you admit that the trees are insignificant in the grand scheme of things. They are plants – plentiful and replaceable. I wish your brethren could understand the same context.
Perhaps you prefer an analogy with animals. Say a tradition involves flying a bird around a stadium filled with 80,000 people, which is not something a bird would naturally do. Say this bird occasionally crashed into windows and goal posts. The tradition continues. Say a study is done by the school that says the bird is developing CTE due to continually banging its head. The tradition continues. The bird is now close to death due to head trauma. The tradition continues. Harvey shoots the bird dead. Fans claim they love their sacred bird and Harvey deprived said bird of a long, healthy life. A rational observer would rightly condemn both Harvey and the damaging, circus-like stunt the bird was forced to do throughout its life. Only a deranged fan base would claim to love and view as sacred that which they were slowly destroying.
I don’t see how one mourns the loss of an object of abuse – unless the mourning is the lost opportunity to abuse. But, now there are new, fresh trees to torment. Party on!
Other than Updyke, I have no idea who those other people are. I assume they are Bama fans who behave poorly. That doesn’t even move the needle on my care-o-meter. Any team in any sport in any country that is significant enough to have a fan base has its morons. Some will get carried away by definition. Every team that I am a fan of has dumbarse fans. And so what?
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