agosto 2012

Atropofagia olímpica: a grande orgia internacional onde o prato principal é o atleta

Ontem foi publicado um excelente artigo do psicólogo esportivo João Ricardo Cozac a respeito da motivação patriótica, da administração emocional, pelo atleta, das expectativas coletivas quanto à sua vitória e dos paradoxos envolvendo tais elementos do ponto de vista da estrutura psicológica da motivação. Acredito que João Ricardo deu conta do doloroso reflexo subjetivo desta […]

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Sports Patriotism revised: why I am not proud of my country

I once watched a conference by philosopher Denis Dutton who argued that humans have some sort of programmed drive to appreciate and do “things well done”. He was trying to explain why humans, in spite of their great cultural diversity, all have a conception of beauty. I don’t think I agree with him at all,

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Painful ambivalence: the Olympic Games

Yesterday I watched the 77g weightlifting event at the Olympics. I watched in real time as Lu Haojie  , from China, badly injured his left elbow at the snatch. I saw him climbing down the platform in pain, his coach kneeling beside him as he cried holding his arm. He then proceeded to the clean

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