Amplification of egoism, egomania
In many sports, the egoistic pursuit of performance amplifies selfishness, and makes egomania grow uncontrollably. Performance sport involves a high degree of personal involvement and intense effort, and personal harmonising aspects are often neglected, which can have various effects on the personality and behaviour of a performance athlete.
Performance sport can lead to the amplifying of selfishness, especially by focusing on strictly individual performance. In individual sport, success depends to a large extent on personal performance, which can encourage an intense focus on one’s own achievements. This can lead, in some cases, to the development of selfish traits, when the athlete prioritises success at the expense of other essential aspects of life or at the expense of harmonious interpersonal relationships.
Performance sport often involves fierce competition. The highly competitive environment can foster an unhealthy “win at all costs” mentality, that can end up promoting selfish behaviour, as competitive athletes may feel encouraged to put themselves first, ignoring the needs or welfare of others.
Performance sport involves or is associated with material reward and mass recognition. The reward system, that usually favours winners, may encourage athletes to pursue their own interests to achieve success, fame and material benefits, thus amplifying personality traits that are specific to selfishness. Pride in being a top performer in sport can give rise to egomania.
Passionate spectator involvement
Contemporary society is in some way unconsciously fascinated by the spectacle of the youth of the participants, which in reality however, has a mysterious connection – usually unsuspected by human beings – with the subtle sublime energy of the Godly Attribute of Youth, but also with the spectacle of the health of the participants, an aspect that has a mysterious link with the subtle, sublime energy of the Godly Attribute of Health. Performance sport has come to have a major, even predominant, result, namely the inauspiciously passionate involvement of the spectators.
These aspects are attested to by the vigour and the intensity of unfavourable passion and the obviously inferior feelings that performance sport often unleashes today in the masses of human beings almost everywhere in the ambiance of this planet who watch them and who are so easily carried away by this type of inferior states.
Victims of skilfully maintained collective psychosis
These aspects related to performance sports which, taking place in front of a large audience constantly give rise to an obvious, cunning over-promotion, that takes over a huge number of human beings who become involved in all kinds of sporting activities, either as athletes or as banal and lethargic spectators, who never tire of watching the various sporting spectacles in the stands, that trigger processes of inferior occult resonance in their inner universe that project them and then keep them in a larval state, of pathetic inertia, of endless, ruinous indifference.
By cunningly and aptly unleashing collective psychosis, that is usually not in the least suspected by ignorant, obtuse, selfish and lethargic human beings, a huge number of human beings who live in a ceaseless state of ignorance, of crass stupidity are ceaselessly being seduced in an insidious and skilful way into practising all sorts of sport that dumb them down and enchain them in a state of selfishness and insidious and ferocious materialism.
Financial and ethical deviations
This gives rise to a number of obvious financial and ethical deviations, such as doping. Passionate fans end up spending large sums on tickets and to follow their favourite team wherever they go for matches, while others even end up losing all their money on sports betting. In their desire to increase their performance through any means, some athletes resort to various prohibited stimulants. Even if they try to avoid being detected in doping tests, we often hear about doping scandals involving some top athletes.
Amplification of stupidity
In these apocalyptic times, mass sport and sport spectacles contribute to the emergence and maintenance of a state of immense, abysmal, monopolising stupidity that, paradoxically, is far greater than the state of stupidity that existed in the ambiance of this planet 100 years ago.
The human beings who are fanatics of such illusory, insidious, monopolising passions have not at all awakened in their inner universe the sense of ridicule and because of this they endlessly indulge in this pathetic position which they are not aware of because of the immense, abysmal state of stupidity in which they endlessly confine themselves.
The great genius Albert Einstein said: “Only two things are endless in this world. These are the Universe which constantly embraces us and the all-pervading stupidity. As to the fact that the Universe is endless I am not absolutely certain, but as to stupidity I am absolutely certain that it has never had and never has any limits”.
Dangers related to dynamics of large crowds
Sport spectacles, especially those that attract large numbers of passionate supporters or fans, can become dangerous for several reasons.
A first nefarious factor is the unbridled dynamics of crowds of people adopting herd behaviour. In large crowds, individuals may adopt herd behaviour, partially losing self-control or personal behavioural rigour. This unfortunate phenomenon can lead to impulsive or violent actions that a person would not normally commit.
Anonymity is another undesirable factor that occurs in crowds of sports fans, a sense of which can be conferred by presence in a large crowd, that in turn can reduce a sense of personal responsibility and encourage risky or aggressive behaviour.
Another unfortunate factor that manifests in sports performances attended by large crowds is the unhealthy emotional intensity that causes inauspiciously passionate behaviour. Performance sport can generate intense and disturbing emotions. For example, defeat or controversy over game decisions can trigger strong emotional reactions, sometimes resulting in violence or destruction.
Disastrous rivalries are another unfortunate factor. Rivalries between teams or supporters can heighten tensions, turning sporting competitions into flashpoints for conflict and aggression.
Extreme sports can even kill you
In addition, some “extreme” sports are highly dangerous, as they put the physical integrity and the life of the human being at great risk – including sports involving risky, acrobatic activities, such as bungee jumping, ice climbing, mountain biking, surfing on giant waves or climbing without a rope and without safety measures. All extreme sports carry significant risks – they are particularly dangerous because of the high risk of serious injury or even death.