Mobile: Sport Based Nationalism

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This is a test, just to see how mobile posting goes. I'm in my living room, on my phone, sending this message to my new blog. Wimbledon, my home town and the centre of the world's biggest Tennis Tournament, is on television.

What I cannot understand, is all the fuss over national pride. Everyone is cheering for Andy Murray. Because he's British. And if he wins, then what? Why will people be happy? It doesn't prove anything about them, and proves very little about their nationality, and all the faith put in British sport stars is misplaced. It leads to disappointment and everyone is always surprised. Well, it's just a game. But even outside games I hardly think that national pride is worth anything. It leads to nationalism and eliteism. Countries are controlled by governments, and I don't think it coincidence that members of those states follow so eagerly in the decisions that the governments make. Ultimately, national pride is a form of selfishness. It's just baseless pride, but still people cry and cheer depending entirely on how one guy is hitting a ball.

I'm just not a huge fan of sport spectating. Playing sport is great, especially solo games. I love playing Tennis but my favourite is and always has been Squash. Well, for the past six years or so. I need to play more.

I am going to try and contact friends to go and see Sin City, because it's worth seeing a few times before I download it. If I download it. I'm running out of hard drive space rapidly. I've deleted half downloaded movies and almost completed ISOs in favour of seeing Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy again. I'll leave this message there. It's painful on the thumbs. I might do this more, but we'll see how it looks.

And Murray JUST lost.