Super Bowl
What a relief it was to have a football player and not the president toss the coin to open the Super Bowl.
I am a total fair weather fan, paying no attention all season long except to fill an occasional rainy Sunday afternoon. But for a few playoff games and then for the Super Bowl, I love the idea - much like the Final Four in NCAA basketball - that a huge part of the nation is engaged in the same thing at the same moment.
The French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who died in 1955, wrote what was then revolutionary suggestions about how our species was going to evolve. He wrote of a noosphere, a layer around the earth like the atmosphere, made up of mental activity and energy. As I read it now it sounds eerily like the internet and satellite communications.
Teilhard believed that the homonisation of the earth, when human though and imagination energy covered the planet, would cause us to become a single phenomenon - his best known book was titled The Phenomenon of Man - and that would lead to world peace.
Half of his prediction has been coming true. What of the other half?
God knows. But yesterday, as I drank a beer, ate guacamole and chile, I felt at one with the country - and a significant part of the world - in a way I seldom do.
I am a total fair weather fan, paying no attention all season long except to fill an occasional rainy Sunday afternoon. But for a few playoff games and then for the Super Bowl, I love the idea - much like the Final Four in NCAA basketball - that a huge part of the nation is engaged in the same thing at the same moment.
The French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who died in 1955, wrote what was then revolutionary suggestions about how our species was going to evolve. He wrote of a noosphere, a layer around the earth like the atmosphere, made up of mental activity and energy. As I read it now it sounds eerily like the internet and satellite communications.
Teilhard believed that the homonisation of the earth, when human though and imagination energy covered the planet, would cause us to become a single phenomenon - his best known book was titled The Phenomenon of Man - and that would lead to world peace.
Half of his prediction has been coming true. What of the other half?
God knows. But yesterday, as I drank a beer, ate guacamole and chile, I felt at one with the country - and a significant part of the world - in a way I seldom do.
posted by Blayney at 9:16 AM
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