Comments on: The mysterious death of playing outside http://caughtinplay.com/mysterious-death-playing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mysterious-death-playing the culture of entertainment Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:46:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Peter Stromberg http://caughtinplay.com/mysterious-death-playing/comment-page-1/#comment-678 Peter Stromberg Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:41:29 +0000 http://caughtinplay.com/?p=387#comment-678 Yes, you are picking up on a theme. I think that a central component of the contemporary American concept of self--what we think a person is/should be--has to do with fame. Although typically people are reluctant to put it this way, there's a sense in which a person without fame is just "nobody." Personal branding is being your own publicity agent, home-made fame. Yes, you are picking up on a theme. I think that a central component of the contemporary American concept of self–what we think a person is/should be–has to do with fame. Although typically people are reluctant to put it this way, there’s a sense in which a person without fame is just “nobody.” Personal branding is being your own publicity agent, home-made fame.

]]> By: JLaw http://caughtinplay.com/mysterious-death-playing/comment-page-1/#comment-677 JLaw Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:13:25 +0000 http://caughtinplay.com/?p=387#comment-677 I think this post links very nicely with your post on personal branding. Literature such as the collected work of Malcolm Gladwell amounts to a mini-PhD in "how to be a rock star." Parents are choosing to hold a child back from kindergarten solely for the hoped-for advantage of being larger and stronger (to excel at high school sports) and better prepared (rank higher academically). This trend seems to stem from a burgeoning belief that a person only amounts to someone if they are unique, have achieved great things, or fulfilled their life's purpose and - getting to the function of personal branding - these achievements are publicly and broadly recognized. I think this post links very nicely with your post on personal branding. Literature such as the collected work of Malcolm Gladwell amounts to a mini-PhD in “how to be a rock star.” Parents are choosing to hold a child back from kindergarten solely for the hoped-for advantage of being larger and stronger (to excel at high school sports) and better prepared (rank higher academically). This trend seems to stem from a burgeoning belief that a person only amounts to someone if they are unique, have achieved great things, or fulfilled their life’s purpose and – getting to the function of personal branding – these achievements are publicly and broadly recognized.

]]> By: Tweets that mention Entertainment and the demise of unstructured playing -- Topsy.com http://caughtinplay.com/mysterious-death-playing/comment-page-1/#comment-410 Tweets that mention Entertainment and the demise of unstructured playing -- Topsy.com Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:35:27 +0000 http://caughtinplay.com/?p=387#comment-410 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Duff McDuffee, Beyond Meds. Beyond Meds said: Mysterious death of playing outside http://bit.ly/9AzLGU Shldn’t my child be riding her bike around neighborhood & jumping rope w/ friends? [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Duff McDuffee, Beyond Meds. Beyond Meds said: Mysterious death of playing outside http://bit.ly/9AzLGU Shldn’t my child be riding her bike around neighborhood & jumping rope w/ friends? [...]

]]> By: Peter Stromberg http://caughtinplay.com/mysterious-death-playing/comment-page-1/#comment-409 Peter Stromberg Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:55:23 +0000 http://caughtinplay.com/?p=387#comment-409 Yes: One sees that one can't compete in this area, so one makes a rational choice to compete in another realm. Such reasoning makes increasing sense in a cultural environment in which even local celebrity is valued over other forms of self-realization (I am only worthwhile to the extent that I can garner some public attention). Once again, very cool comment, very interesting. Yes: One sees that one can’t compete in this area, so one makes a rational choice to compete in another realm. Such reasoning makes increasing sense in a cultural environment in which even local celebrity is valued over other forms of self-realization (I am only worthwhile to the extent that I can garner some public attention).
Once again, very cool comment, very interesting.

]]> By: Duff http://caughtinplay.com/mysterious-death-playing/comment-page-1/#comment-407 Duff Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:13:28 +0000 http://caughtinplay.com/?p=387#comment-407 Excellent article. I've been thinking about the relationship between competitive spectator sports and obesity lately. More and more, moving one's body is becoming a narrow activity that only certain citizens specialize in. This is necessarily the case because of how competitive every field is. To exercise at any level that would pay off socially requires many hours a week, if not many hours a day, and those hours are needed for dedicating one's self to some other specialty--even if that means specializing in trivia about one's favorite television show or celebrity. Excellent article.

I’ve been thinking about the relationship between competitive spectator sports and obesity lately. More and more, moving one’s body is becoming a narrow activity that only certain citizens specialize in. This is necessarily the case because of how competitive every field is. To exercise at any level that would pay off socially requires many hours a week, if not many hours a day, and those hours are needed for dedicating one’s self to some other specialty–even if that means specializing in trivia about one’s favorite television show or celebrity.

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