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Arms-Control Breakdown
This is interesting. I found it linked from a site that commented:
"... it’s really about a culture gone insane, favoring victory over health and ambition over balance. Our relationship with sports and youth sports in particular has become a cultural obsessive-compulsive disorder. We would be right to call it a form of socially-accepted child abuse, except that we, as adults, treat ourselves in a similar fashion, driving ourselves far past the point of balance."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/magazine/09littleleague-t.html
"... it’s really about a culture gone insane, favoring victory over health and ambition over balance. Our relationship with sports and youth sports in particular has become a cultural obsessive-compulsive disorder. We would be right to call it a form of socially-accepted child abuse, except that we, as adults, treat ourselves in a similar fashion, driving ourselves far past the point of balance."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/magazine/09littleleague-t.html