In the age of corona, it is not easy to judge whether you are more annoyed by the fact that no one actually knows enough about the current virus, or, which is logical in such situations, when there is a lack of knowledge - that everyone knows everything... The absence of reliable knowledge opens the door to the ignorant and fraudsters. It's always like that, and in everything.
We are used to watching athletes on the field, it is their space, their true home, their field of expression, and since the corona suspended the fields, then we are condemned to what remains of the athlete: their persona. And occasional statements in newspapers - their, conditionally speaking, intellectual works. About anything and everything. The time of superficiality is always an ally of stupidity, so you should be careful. And many athletes, no matter how careful they are on the field, that's not in the story...
And when it comes to the intellectual attitudes of today's media stars, especially when it comes to athletes, in principle, we shouldn't expect much. If someone's life is fanatically focused on one thing from the age of seven or eight, it becomes a life "full" of meaning. Paradoxical - then everything else is missing. Perhaps what is missing is unimportant, but it seems that precisely in that continent of insignificance that makes up life, there is the material that decisively shapes us. Our expectations, defeats, disappointments... We are alone there.
Thanks to several of Djokovic's statements that we have heard recently, it is clear that skipping formal education, no matter how willing they are to make up for it all, still leaves certain consequences. It is unlikely that a sports drill can activate - critical thinking. One was - Muhammad Ali.
Again, it's not smart to get angry at athletes because of this or that uttered nonsense, when, every day, you have bigger and more dangerous nonsense, in the media, in politics... When you have statements like you can hear from politicians in the Balkans, the standards and sensitivity to stupidity shift and nastiness.
After an ill-advised statement about the vaccine, this brilliant athlete, probably the greatest from the Balkans, started advertising conspiracy theorists of national moderation... This is what survived from that genre's peak that happened to the narrative - in the nineties. From that Ship of Fools, a few obscure "theorists" welcomed the age of the Internet and social networks. Paradise for "false prophets" and other frauds: this is the team that claims that Jesus spoke Serbian...
Djokovic's explanation about the "alternative history" he is interested in is just naive. He is interested in "the real truth about us". This is usually only the first stage of national frustration. When will people understand that there are no "real truths" about nations. There is no divine design behind anyone's history. You must find other keys to those secrets…
In this kind of haste, one could find part of the reason why ten years after the end of his career, Federer will have more sponsors than Novak at his peak. Those who like him because he doesn't look like a Balkan cliché are now quite confused.
When it comes to medicine, Djokovic is wary of vaccines, but does he believe that "alternative history" makes sense? He is suspicious of scientists about the vaccine, but that's why pseudo-scientists clearly impress him.
This kind of "spill", unforced error, so to speak, does not resemble Djokovic as we know it. For the most part, he gave the impression of a thoughtful and unburdened young man. Again, isolation affects people, it should be taken as a mitigating circumstance.
Many have slipped on history, on that banana peel, Djokovic probably doesn't know that.
In the end, it would be normal to think - why does the great tennis player think that anyone is interested in his opinion on medical or historical issues? And that is already the problem of the time in which we live. Do you remember how, as intelligent as everything he does, Jurgen Klopp asked at the beginning of the pandemic - why are you asking celebrities about the virus, ask the doctors...
And finally - Happy May Day. Death to fascism...
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