What’s the difference between “Grand Theft Auto V” (GTA V) and boxing? For starters, GTA V is a video game, and boxing is a competitive sport. One side is influenced by money, weapons, sex, and drugs. The other is influenced by physical brutality and roaring chants of spectators. Both of these two have their differences, but one thing that they primarily share is violence. Statistics show that GTA V was a record breaking video game seller – having sold over 34 million copies. It was also one of the most anticipated game ever – predicted that GTA V was going to have a tremendous amount of features than the preceding GTA games. For boxing, there are millions of spectators sharing a large interest for just two people fighting with each other.
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Suppose a man has the urge to shoot something. The best case scenario could have him shoot several rounds to a paper target. The worst case could have him shoot several rounds to live targets – in other words, live people. The same applies to Clifford Geertz’s, “The Balinese Cockfight.” In Geertz’s essay, he emphasizes, “For it is only apparently cocks that are fighting there. Actually, it is men” (554). The first sentence is described as what is literally happening in a Balinese Cockfight. The second sentence goes in depth of what is mentally happening. What a normal person would see is a usual cockfight – two roosters fighting/pecking each other out. What the Balinese men seem to see are “actually” two men fighting each other. What the Balinese men do is that they, “spend an enormous amount of time with their favorites, grooming them, feeding them, discussing them, trying them out against one another, or just gazing at them with a mixture of rapt admiration and dreamy self-absorption” (Geertz 555). In this sentence, rapt is defined as one being distracted by one particular thing, and self-absorption is defined as being busy with one’s feelings. In Bali, it is as if a man’s cock is his own identity. Imagine men, “grooming” themselves, “feeding” themselves, or “trying [themselves] out against one another.” Next, imagine them fighting against each other – similar to a typical blood-sport cockfight. This scenario is not happening since (1), “gladiatorial combat was abolished under the Christian emperors Constantine and Theodoric, and its practice discontinued forever” (Geertz 550), and (2), would not it be just inhumane? Balinese men are training cocks, not themselves. These men utilize cockfighting as their own form of violence to unleash their hidden
Suppose a man has the urge to shoot something. The best case scenario could have him shoot several rounds to a paper target. The worst case could have him shoot several rounds to live targets – in other words, live people. The same applies to Clifford Geertz’s, “The Balinese Cockfight.” In Geertz’s essay, he emphasizes, “For it is only apparently cocks that are fighting there. Actually, it is men” (554). The first sentence is described as what is literally happening in a Balinese Cockfight. The second sentence goes in depth of what is mentally happening. What a normal person would see is a usual cockfight – two roosters fighting/pecking each other out. What the Balinese men seem to see are “actually” two men fighting each other. What the Balinese men do is that they, “spend an enormous amount of time with their favorites, grooming them, feeding them, discussing them, trying them out against one another, or just gazing at them with a mixture of rapt admiration and dreamy self-absorption” (Geertz 555). In this sentence, rapt is defined as one being distracted by one particular thing, and self-absorption is defined as being busy with one’s feelings. In Bali, it is as if a man’s cock is his own identity. Imagine men, “grooming” themselves, “feeding” themselves, or “trying [themselves] out against one another.” Next, imagine them fighting against each other – similar to a typical blood-sport cockfight. This scenario is not happening since (1), “gladiatorial combat was abolished under the Christian emperors Constantine and Theodoric, and its practice discontinued forever” (Geertz 550), and (2), would not it be just inhumane? Balinese men are training cocks, not themselves. These men utilize cockfighting as their own form of violence to unleash their hidden