I have something I need to say

Wednesday January 10, 2007 - 4:55PM EDT

It is time I said something about this. Why is it that whenever I watch anything related to football and New Orleans someone is saying something about how the city needs the Saints to heal. I have heard the stinking pile of bullshit for entirely too long from a bunch of sports writers and the like blinded by delusions of the football gods balancing the universe. It was ok the first hundred times because some people need to vent emotionally.  But it has been non-stop for almost two years now. Do these clowns realize what they are saying. The are resting hopes of a broken city on an NFL franchise. Sure it might help a few hundred people maybe a couple thousand in the short term. But whether the saints stayed or left or sucked or won the superbowl wouldn't do jack shit for 99.999% of the people in need in New Orleans. First off the Saints weren't even all that popular in New Orleans to begin with hence the talk of them moving. This trumpeting of the Saints is to me the most disgusting of elitist and snobish behavior by a bunch of people who felt absolutely no direct effects of the destruction of the city.  They just need to remedy a twisted altruistic urge that gurgles up inside when you see another in need.

With all that said I don't want to completely demonize  that kind of behavior. I just want people to recognize and analyze a situation objectively. Stop relying completely on their ephemeral sense of guilt to guide their decisions. This also goes along with the popular notion of going with your gut or not overthinking things. The statement about not overthinking things is so misleading I hate when people say that. It is rooted in a complete lack of understanding of how humans work and how the brain works. The disassociation of thinking (brain) and feeling (gut/instict) is almost incomprehensible to me sometimes. Everything is brain connected and you need to treat it that way, stop treating thinking and the brain as some kind of separate step child not worthy of consideration sometimes. Fuck I'm tired.