Do we all really demand/expect superhuman effort from our athletes?

Granted, I’m not a huge sports fan, so I don’t really know the reality of that — but, I thought we just demanded a good game – and, once upon a time, sports people were able to give us that without performance enhancing drugs. I mean, most people are couch potatoes – how the heck do THEY know what a superhuman effort is??? I figured that performance enhancing drugs came because someone else wanted to win more, and then everybody felt they had to take them to compete. (This may be completely idiotically simplistic – I did admit that I don’t know all that much about sports. The rule is “follow the money” and maybe advertising and betting come into it somehow.) THAT had nothing to do with US, as consumers/watchers of sport. I think demanding accountability, at least there, would come in the form of no more professional playing, at all, EVER, in any sport for people who mess about with the drugs. The End of Said Career and all other sporty ones – you can’t even swap to Formula One racing or whatnot. No more sports. That would definitely cut down on it, wouldn’t you think?

And, as for celebrities… if only we didn’t think that they were demigods. I don’t even know what to say about a culture in which you can be famous for… being famous, and in which Perez Hilton exists. We live in a gawking society; I cannot ever imagine us shunning someone by not looking at their idiocy… but, that’s probably the only thing that would work.

::sigh::