Chapter 35 Think twice about football

2000/04/25 Sanlian Life Weekly Author: Xu Bin I have never opposed football, but I like it very much. However, now there is such a force that makes me gradually stay away from football. Such a force is the unconditional enthusiasm for football in the whole society.This is another form of echoing what others say that is widely ignored, another form of selling one's own aesthetics and discernment, another form of convergence and kitsch with mass culture. Fueling this unconditional vulgarity is our media.Flip through most newspapers and magazines on newsstands, turn on the TV, tune in to any channel, and there's always a chance you'll hear and see something about football.And stuff like that is highly provocative.It is difficult to expect me to point out specific inflammatory words, because things about the news are all advertised as "objective" and "fair", and they also try to appear "objective" and "fair".However, is it "fair" when a media uses more than any one element of life to cover football that is not an element of life? "Objective"?

The problem is that people who like football and the media who like football often cannot be satisfied with their hobbies, and spare no effort to sell this hobby (for them, it can even be called a lifestyle).As far as the media is concerned, whether they know what it is and don’t know why it is, or they don’t know what it is and let alone why it is, they often talk about the "mental journey" of their fans in the tone of a "cultural" Taibao, making insinuations and even admonishing them. The "ignorance" and "backwardness" of football people.Originally, this was only for men, but recently due to the awakening of feminist consciousness, this kind of discourse has also spread to women.Moreover, the obsession with football has taken on a more avant-garde meaning among women.

A person is so crazy about football that it becomes his religion, get drunk, have fun, get out, fine, no big deal.But don't sell this pleasure on the street for cheap.I saw a certain A talking about classical music to a certain B, and B was very annoyed, and said in a surprising way: "What are you talking about, fast Adagio, very slow Allegro, slightly faster Adagio, Slow allegro, neither fast nor slow little quack, it's all bullshit to me. I know that some melodies can enter my heart, and that is good music." I originally liked music but didn't seek deep understanding, but I was bewitched by "audiophiles" who "seek deep understanding" for a while. When a series of profound terms came out of their mouths, I doubted whether I understood music.However, there was an interview on a TV program with the music director of the Vienna Philharmonic, and his old man's words took me out of my confusion.His old man's words are very similar to those of the B group. The main idea is that the melody that shakes your heart is good music.According to him, when listening to "The Blue Danube", the so-called thoughtful thoughts are associated with spring water flowing eastward; when listening to "Moonlight Night on the Spring River", there is a picture of the bright moon on the sea and the rising tide in the mind, all of which are distortions of music.Extending this theory to football, taking pride in being able to watch TV with smoke and having a wife go home without regret, being able to recite the family histories of all big-name players, and being proud of being able to point out any small mistakes made by referees is a distortion of football.And most of the fans in front of me, most of the media's high-spirited talk, generally did not break out of this kind of stereotype.I have seen and heard the beauty of music and the words that can really make me realize the beauty of music. However, I can only see the people and words that he loves and loves on time. His explanation of football can expand my understanding of the beauty of football. I have neither seen nor heard of it.