“In wrestling, nothing exists unless it exists totally, there is no symbol, no allusion, everything is given exhaustively; leaving nothing in shadow, the gesture severs every parasitical meaning and ceremonially presents the public with a pure and full signification, three dimensional, like Nature. Such emphasis is nothing but the popular and ancestral image of the perfect intelligibility of reality. What is enacted by wrestling, then, is an ideal intelligence of things, a euphoria of humanity, raised for a while out of the constitutive ambiguity of everyday situations and installed in a panoramic vision of a univocal Nature, in which signs finally correspond to causes without obstacle, without evasion, and without contradiction.”
― Roland Barthes, Mythologies
Tonight, not for the first time, I went with my family to a WWE show. My son has been a fan for quite a while and so on the rare occasions when the WWE comes to Vancouver we try to get tickets. I enjoy the theatrics of it. Real injuries seldom happen so what you get is a show of simplistic good vs simplistic bad put on by athletes and entertainers who know how to punch, kick and even throw someone without causing any great injury. The violence such as it is thus that of a cartoon in nature. There is a grace to it that is rather fun along with a visceral sense of excitement. As a ceremony and ritual it is rather grounding and quite a bit fun.
Blessings, G
“As for the journey of life; at some point you will realize that YOU are the driver and you will drive!”
― Steve Maraboli
Accountability is a double-edged sword. If I realize that it is up to me to be interested, invested and entertained and not the universe than I have to either surrender boredom or admit to boring myself. Of course the alternative may end up being things like spending time stuck in traffic imagining the Barry Manilow songbook as performed by William Shatner or time in a bank line up identifying which animals each person I looked at reminded me of the most. I have spent more time doing activities like those than I might care to admit but then I don’t have much problem keeping myself entertained. I also have learned its possible to see almost anything as meditation. Boredom isn’t the only thing that I had to give up tho. If entertainment is up to me and not the universe than I have surrendered the right to ever complain about having a bad time. Because what would I complain about? As I said a double-edged sword indeed. I don’t think I’d have it any other way.
Blessings, G
Roman Reigns and Bray Wyatt in the ring 
Tapestry by G A Rosenberg 
