School sports not quite dead yet

By and large, there are few more certain ways to make your MP’s eyes glaze over (yes, yes, I know it’s usually the other way round) than to ask him a question in some way connected to school sports. It just isn’t done in polite society, and besides the MP will most probably be under specific instructions not to say a thing about both the Government’s and the Opposition parties’ papable contempt for all physical endeavour. The few old fashioned Tories who once cared about such things are dead, either literally or politically, and if not are either kept on a leash or treated as amusing relics of a distant past.

The result of such neglect has been disastrous. If you read Private Eye (sadly mostly unavailable online), you will know about the sheer number of state school sports fields sold off. Those few that do keep theirs nonetheless keep them simply as mementos of a dying era, all actual exercise having been abandoned in order to prevent anyone’s feelings getting hurt or to engage in whatever latest nonsense has been dreamt up by the Labour meddlers, such as ‘cooperative’ Sports Days. In essence, sport and political correctness (and the therapy culture) simply don’t mix, and as the latter are the modern day religion of our leaders sport just has to go.

In such a climate, even the slightest turn-around is encouraging, and so with that in mind this should be considered:

Children across the UK are to be given the chance to compete in their own version of the Olympics.
The government hopes the UK School Games will help unearth British talent for the London Olympics in 2012.

Granted, this is still just bread and circuses, something to make sure that London’s 2012 Olympics do not end in the embarrassment that we, quite frankly, deserve. There is also every chance that this’ll turn into yet another showcase for how much Africans contribute to the UK. I’ll be convinced otherwise if and when I hear a govenrment employee make full clear why sport is to be encouraged.

First of all, and this shouldn’t be beyond even one of our hollow NuLabour/NuTory types, it should be made clear that a healthy lifestyle must inevitably involve exercise, and that such a lifestyle reduces the burden on the NHS, reduces working days lost to illness, etc, etc, etc. Going further, we might also add that a healthy population is less likely to fall prey to various potentially dangerous fads and enthusiasms. That a healthy mind requires a healthy body was medical orthodoxy until Hitler’s advocacy of this idea discredited it in the minds of certain people (who probably don’t get enough exercise).

Indeed, it is simply obvious why sport is beneficial. Only an organisation utterly incapable of looking beyond the next few years would not encourage its members to participate in it. Step forward egalitarian democracy, the God that Failed.

The question of sport in schools may seem trivial by comparison to others facing us, but it is controlled by the same dynamics which control our heedless immigration, social and economic policies. As such, it is fairly obvious why the impeccably populist Messiah that Failed, Tone Blair, should wish to ignore entirely its long term benefits. He’s still a Keynesian at heart, at least in the sense of believing that ‘in the long run, we’re all dead’, and until that pernicious doctrine is shown up for the destructive agent that it is, no long term future of any sort can be secured for us.

Posted by Alex Zeka on Friday, September 8, 2006 at 08:27 AM in Health
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Posted by Al Ross on September 08, 2006, 09:35 AM | #

Keynes’s famous “in the long run we’re all dead” is the sort of selfish narcissistic idiocy we must expect from White homosexuals, for whom the future of the race is a matter of supreme indifference.

Keynes was much more intelligent than Blair though, as evidenced by his answer to a question regarding the consistency of his economic worldview, viz.

“When circumstances change, I change too. What do you do?”

Posted by karlmagnus on September 08, 2006, 01:36 PM | #

With the exception of cricket and maybe occasionally golf, I will welcome the success of genetic engineering in tweaking our metabolism so that it is NOT necessary to take exercise. It is an utter waste of time and, in the case of school rugby for example, most unpleasant in many ways.

Posted by Alex Zeka on September 08, 2006, 07:08 PM | #

karl, I would suggest that extreme care has to be taken before embarking on such a project, indeed so much that it mihgt well be entirely unviable. GE is a complicated affair, and as any good conservative knows any form of engineering in any way associated with the oft inexplicable animal called man is fraught with unintended consequences.

To take one example, increasing the lifespan of a man, whilst seemingly wonderful, would also require firming up his bone structure, as this decays towards our old age. This in turn would require a body shape better suited to this thicker bone: stooping, broader shouldered, ungainly. In short, in trying to create a super man, the utopian scientists would have created a neanderthal, as Mary Shelley intuited would happen when she wrote Frankestein.

Whilst it might be possible to create a creature which does not require physical exercise to remain in good health and superficially resembles you or me, it is questionalbe in the extreme if this creature, either in body or in mind, could be termed a human.

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