And rewarded he is with affection from the opposite sex, approval from peers, and money to further his sports career in college. Give up mental pursuits. They will get you nowhere. Sports will make you rich. Sports will make you famous.
Sports are the ideal.
And sadly, many believe the Great Sports Lie. S ports at the collegiate level has crossed the line of subliminal induction and has moved into the realm of obvious control. For many, college is a time when offspring are first permanently separated from parental control, and thus, are easy targets for sembalences of authority designed to further brainwash future generations. From the second one enters any college campus, they are bombarded, nay, assaulted by violent imagery of the respective sports teams in such a blanketing, all-encompassing way that even Goebbels would be proud of. And to further prove that colleges are no longer centers of academia, one has to only look at recent cutbacks in university budgets.