NEGATIVITY IN PIGEON RACING
by Jim Emerton
You know I accentuate the positive and decline the negative in an optimistic mind mode. However, there is a rampant and insidious malaise in our society, epitomised by the attitudes of some fanciers. I think it lies in the propaganda and negative perceptions of the messages in the media, and in response to some of the personalities who govern a quasi-democratic society. At the core of the endemic problem in the sport today is an unhappy synthesis of commercialism, jealousy, criticism and a decline in generous, spiritual and moral values due to the unhealthy rise of materialism as the base line entity of out of control capitalism. People demonstrate their instincts and emotions in a diversity of guises, and the obsessive will to win at all costs philosophy is contributing to a sport that has rejected balance, fun and enjoyment, in favour of exaggerated hype, self delusion, and illusion. Bring back the long distance master, poised in vibrant expectation, for the arrival of his old favourites, in beautiful and kind surroundings.
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Elimar - March 2014
