I’ve been chatting with a few of my detractors and wanted to respond with a very brief post, since your attention spans are so short.
Here’s a gem:
Wow, evil potato called me for a Spirit of the Game violation. As usual with the Ultimate Frisbee Collective, instead of coming out and saying what he really meant, he just used a slur to assert that he is a better human being than I am.
As if I care.
You see, in 2004, after watching Dog Town and Z-Boys, I made the conscious decision to Just Say No to Ultimate’s Spirit of the Game Ideology. I can’t tell you how liberating it was.
What I finally came to realize was that the SOTG boiled down to just one thing. It was a tool for one person to assert their moral superiority over another person. SOTG was the original Virtue Signaling construct. I saw first hand for decades how players exploited this mechanism to ostensibly downvote other players’ sportsmanship as a way of implying their own. It was always sick and disgusting.
By 2004, I had had enough.
You’re going to threaten me to “behave as you would have me behave” or face the wrath of becoming a social leper? *gasp* *horror* No, not that. Please, anything but that. Please don’t treat me like a social leper, Not that! (LOL)
You’re going to kick me of /r/ultimate is I didn’t adhere to your misguided sense of morality?
You’re going to boot me off of @Being_UIti because you can’t tolerate the way I think?
You’re going to threaten to ban me from a tournament because I sent out mean tweets?
You’re going to evict me from the local league here in Boone, NC before I every played a point because I called you out for your hypocrisy?
Elon says it best here. Is he being an asshole here? No. Is he angry? No. Was Bob Iger of Disney attempting to impose some sort of collectivist moral superiority over X? Absolutely.
This collectivism, this pseudointellectual, elitist sense of communal moral high ground is The Party of False Decorum. As an aggregate, it’s an implicit, determinative moral compass established by the group as way of establishing associateship.
In short, it’s a You’re either with us or against us filter. It’s no wonder why Ultimate has never changed. The The Party of False Decorum filters out anyone who thinks differently.
There are no absolutes when it comes to morality but possibly the most immoral thing any person can do is assert their own moral superiority over another human being.
I am a sovereign.
My choices, my thoughts and my actions are my own. You should try it sometime.
All my posts on rec.sport.disc, on /r/ultimate, on @Being_Ulti and elsewhere have been me demonstrably proving how dehumanizing your SOTG ideology is.
Just look the extent of which and the lengths that you will go to in order to dehumanize me, just so you can feel better about yourselves.
So to each and everyone of you, especially all of the moderators on /r/ultimate, to Brian Sherry and to Charlie Eisenhood and especially to you Drew Shepherd, who have never realized that the joke was always on you—
GO FUCK YOURSELVES
You’re all a bunch of fucking hypocrites.