Sports is a way for us to satisfy a primal part of our mind and pretend we’re going to war with people from other towns.
Shopping has been tailored by very smart people to break down our psychological defenses, cause analysis paralysis, at which point we succumb to marketing and buy whatever has been had the most advertising dollars spent on it, thereby being emblazoned in our mind as what’s best regardless of its actual quality, because our brains aren’t well suited for the sheer number of choices we’re presented with while shopping.
Maybe “stupid” isn’t the right word for shopping or sports, but both of the modern versions of these things are designed to exploit and extract profit by manipulating built in human circuitry.
Shopping has been tailored by very smart people to break down our psychological defenses, cause analysis paralysis, at which point we succumb to marketing and buy whatever has been had the most advertising dollars spent on it, thereby being emblazoned in our mind as what’s best regardless of its actual quality, because our brains aren’t well suited for the sheer number of choices we’re presented with while shopping.
Maybe “stupid” isn’t the right word for shopping or sports, but both of the modern versions of these things are designed to exploit and extract profit by manipulating built in human circuitry.