I am not even interested enough to passively support a team
I honestly could not care who wins, nor do I watch sports in general.
But I now live in Buffalo Bills territory. When I asked others at the bar I was at last night if the Bills had won the game the previous weekend, I was ridiculed! Berated! Publicly excoriated!
I think being a "fan" of something helps set up some of that useful competitive spirit,
Being a fan of something means caring about that thing. I can certainly see how caring would bolster competitiveness.
it creates a position to defend, a position to fight for, something to argue over
This statement shows me the difference between being a mere fan, and a devotee of a higher order. Fandom is easy to rate on a number line, a spectrum. Other issues, those that go beyone mere fandom, are more complex.
I don't need to be first.
In anything, or just consumerism.
:D :D
I think politics is a spectator sport now, where people choose teams, even if they don't know much about the game, how to play, the rules, or what the objective is.
In anything really. I am trying to think of something where I strive to be first. Might think and get back to you on it.
Oh gosh yes definitely politics. No complexities at all for the fans of that slave system. Good example. Now if you step out of being a fan of one team or the other, the issues become highly complex. The only thing I ever know for sure is that any entity of mainstream information sources is not telling the full truth, or even the half of it.
But back to you, is that blassee-ness since the stroke, or have you always been that way? You can't ever remember being a true fan of something? Nothing comes to my mind for this either, actually. And as far as I know, I have never had a stroke.