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Our Last Great Hope
During the presidential election there was much talk about creating a generation better for us than our parents had, that we may be doomed to live lives worse than our parents had. I’m a big believer in the idea that government can’t help create that world, it can only make sure we don’t fall backwards. When you look at the next generation, my generation, I start to wonder. We’re faced with a dying planet plagued with our everlasting thrust for killing each other over what some thousand year old book may or may not have said. This may be the light at the end of the tunnel or the light bulb that comes on after you get a really great idea, we’re probably fucked.
Whatever happened to those Harry Potter-obsessed 11- and 12-year-olds who devoured the books and went everywhere dressed as Harry and Hermione? They’re in college now, and instead of the usual campus sports, you’ll find some of them running around on brooms, chasing the snitch.
12 teams across the US and Canada play this fictional sport against each other. THIS IS NO DIFFERENT THAN LARPING, where a group of virgins get together and prove to the rest of the world how unworthy they are of sex. Only these people are more mainstream and from the sound of the article it’s gaining more momentum than DND ever had. It seems to be because it’s life imitating art, and larping is more about art imitating life. With Harry Potter you’re a wizard, it’s very simple, but with DND you create yourself and customize every aspect of your abilities and looks, endless possibilities. Though I’m sure throwing bird seed onto people screaming “sleep” didn’t help their cause.
To call this a sport I think would do a great disservice to their art (the article does mention that some people have been playing purely for the sport though), because without the culture behind it it’s unlikely this would ever get off the ground. Look at their costumes, titles like “master of ceremonies”, this is more an act of theater than sport regardless of how physically active it is. Even unknowingly many of these players come off more as actors than players even if they don’t have a script. It may end up being a lasting staple of our generation though, when I think of what I’d rather spend my time watching on a Sunday afternoon, a football game or a game of Quidditch, I’d rather kick back and watch people on brooms ‘fly’ around than a bunch of sweaty men smashing their heads together until someone comes out victorious.
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