[Seth Says] The Most Dangerous Game
As protests rage across college campuses, some administrations are threatening to expel the student leaders of the protests, while in other locations police are riding horses through the crowds to intentionally trample and injure protesters. So the big question on everyone's mind is:
A ban or a mare?
(Sure, that is a terrible joke, but it's based on terrible news, so fair's fair.)
Yes, the Internet apparently can't stop talking about whether a woman alone in the woods should be more afraid of a man or a bear. Now admittedly, I know many women who go hiking, most of whom encounter men on their hikes regularly without comment, whereas an encounter with a bear is bound to elicit excitedly fearful comment.
But unlike an apparently large number of disgruntled Internet men, I'm not surprised that so many women are answering "bear", because I also have a number of friends who have suffered at the hands of a man and very few friends who have suffered at the paws of a bear. (one might argue that's obviously biased, but I also have no friends who have been killed by a bear, to my knowledge.) (Although if you have been killed by a bear, please reply and let me know!)
Also, did these dudes just never go to the zoo where they have that exhibit that purports to show you "The World's Most Dangerous Animal" and then you open the thing to take a look and it's a mirror? I feel like those were ubiquitous when I was growing up. Like, by the time I was a teenager, everyone in my class had learned many times over that man was the most dangerous animal. We also had Captain Planet to remind us that we were ruining the earth. (For all the good that did; obviously we have in no way stopped ruining the earth, and indeed have found many new ways to ruin the earth, most recently with blockchain and AI.)
Or have these people never gone to a billionaire's private island to hunt The Most Dangerous Game? (side note: I feel like Jeffrey Epstein has ruined billionaires with private islands. It used to be good clean fun, just hunting and killing humans for sport, but he had to go and rent out children for sex and ruin everything.)(Actually on second thought, murder games may not be good clean fun either, probably there should just be no billionaires with private islands.)(Oddly I have multiple acquaintances who have spent time on billionaires' private islands, but none of them read this newsletter.)(Probably too busy hunting and killing humans for sport.)
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
Sure, hunting and killing humans for sport is often considered The Most Dangerous Game, but last month I started a serious contender.
Technically, rather than a competitive bloodsport, it's a cooperative video game. But don't let that fool you, it's very dangerous, as my latest column will explain:
It Takes Two: How to destroy your relationship with cooperative video games
I realize that most people have probably either already played the game because it's three years old, or never will because it's a video game. But it's new to me so I wrote about it. And besides, any time I write a column about video games, I get to once again retroactively classify a lifetime of video gaming as research for my writing, because you're never too old to have to justify your hobbies to your parents.
JUSTIFY MY LOVES
Actually, I don't have to. The convenient thing about enjoying something is that you don't need a justification, if it makes you happy, that's reason enough. (I'm pretty sure that's why everyone keeps hunting and killing people for sport.) (Okay, maybe some justification is required there.)("Is hunting and killing people for sport ever justified?" "No, usually it's right-aligned.")
Anyway, that's it for this week's newsletter, so thanks for reading, catch me in two weeks for another column, and go out and enjoy something that isn't hunting and killing people for sport.
The Hobbygoblin Of Little Minds,
Seth