&&&RMED LOVE - Jack Scott, Bill Walton, the SLA, and the Athletic Revolution
Added 2024-07-24 10:00:12 +0000 UTC&ers, &y, and Sean look at the career of New Left sociologist JACK SCOTT, who founded a "Jock Liberation Army," overhauled the Oberlin Athletics Department, and linked up with the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Jack Scott:
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/kw/jack-scott-the-athletic-revolution/
https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/spring-2020/wild-ride-jack-scott-and-jock-liberation/
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/09/21/archives/radical-jocks-how-jack-scott-once-known-as-chief-who-would-go.html
Bill Walton:
Bill Walton On The Road With The Portland Trail Blazers by Jack Scott
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2024/05/searching-for-bill-walton/
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-walton-activism/tnamp/
Audio clips: Interviews with Harry Edwards, Bill Walton, and SLA communiques
Past ARMED LOVE episodes: https://www.patreon.com/collection/87680?view=expanded
Past &&& episodes: https://www.patreon.com/collection/500909?view=expanded
Song: Patti Smith - Hey Joe (Patty Hearst)
Comments
youtube
The Antifada
2024-08-06 15:23:45 +0000 UTCI need to use part of this patty hearts communique in a song; what did you search to find it?
Adam
2024-08-06 08:42:25 +0000 UTCIs it just by chance that this comes out at the same time as the Tribal Thumb episodes of True Anon lol
Daniel E
2024-07-25 18:12:12 +0000 UTCThis episode comes at an interesting time in esports, as the IOC just approved the creation of an Esports Olympics at the entreaty/behest of the Sauds. The Saudis are using many sports to launder their image and reputation to the rest of the world, but esports, given their notorious unprofitability, are a particularly easy target for them. Esports players, commentators, and orgs are hungry for wealth and legitimacy, and the fighting game "community" (FGC) in particular. Despite the long history of the genre and its foundation in one on one play, it has never enjoyed mainstream attention. The closest fighting game to mainstream is Mortal Kombat, and very few people play it at a professional level (it had fewer competitors at Evo last weekend than Under-Night 2, which generously sold maybe 10% of the copies MK did). So of course all the Fighting Game players and commentators are running to Riyadh to work for the Sauds in the "Esports World Cup". And esports orgs are scooping up fighting game players as the EWC pays out based on overall team performance across all games, not just League of Legends or Counterstrike or whatever. So all of this is to say that I'm watching video games, in particular the fighting games I've come to love over the past year, transform into a spectacle to sell advertising for and legitimize the Saudi regime. And nobody seems to care. I feel completely powerless. You can't even muster a basic boycott among Gamers- they want their distractions and to not notice the world going to shit around them (including the increasingly predatory monetization of their games, which they complain about but take no steps to investigate or resolve). I'm sorry for this colossal wall of text, I'm just at my wit's end. As for the ep itself, it's sad how much of the story of the American left is based in idiosyncratic idealism and not rooted in a concrete understanding of the world beyond "capitalism bad". Glad the guy got his second chance and became a sports physical therapist, I suppose.
Amelia Moss
2024-07-24 12:08:36 +0000 UTC
