I was watching some street dancers doing their somersaults, splits and acrobatics and it occurred to me that when we watch athletes or even just dancers we are not watching excellence but participating in an imaginary world where we can in some symbiotic form, dance and run as they do.
It goes further than this for the ability of the human mind to project itself onto others carries over into all imaging entertainment. Somehow we are those people, we can be there and if we had practiced we could have been enjoying some of the kudos of their feats of excellence. Feats mind you that are dedicated to our gravity and our world.
This sublimation of who we are in pretending to be what others are is very dangerous. Because although we can see it in how we are entertained we do not see it in how we live and yet it is there. When a Trade Unionist was told the Unions had become corrupt and power hungry in the 1970s he replied they had but that was because they were emulating the bosses and leaders of the country. They did not know any better.
It seems the greatest evolutionary step – for every human being to stand on their own two feet – has not yet arrived if it ever will.