Michael Lewis doesn't like golf

He starts a recent Bloomberg column with this:

One of the amazing things about golf is how many people have been fooled into believing it is actually a real sport. All over the world people now talk and think about golf as if it's more like football or basketball than, say, bird- watching. 

Then he gets ugly.

Comments

[JorgXMcKie]

I dunno. Is there any dumber an activity pretending to be intellectual exercise than column writing? I mean, we pay people who are facile with the written word as if they actually might have thought deeply and well about some subject of both interest and value. Practitioners like Michael Lewis certainly put the lie to it actually having any real intellectual content.

It does, though, obviously have the quality of letting others (so-called 'readers') who can share vicariously in this hypothetical intellectualism by nodding wisely and agreeing with the writer, when in actuality he's doing nothing that the drunk just down the bar from you in the local pub doesn't do except actually recording the maunderings.

Then, of course, we also rope in 'guest columnists' and 'op-ed writers' who may actually *be* persons of intellectual heft, thus transferring some further gilding to the psuedo-lily of the career columnist.

And it's probably no coincidence that the writing has "what might be called (it's) negative attraction; it pulls people in by what typically is not found there. In no particular order of importance these are:

1) Actual Work

2) Wife

3) Kids

4) Awareness that any of the above might be more important than (opinion writing)."

Plus the positive attraction of being able to present oneself as someone whose thoughts are of enough value to be published.

No wonder these MSM types resent blogs. They have a nasty tendency to demonstrate the state of the Emperor's actual habile.

[Sports Blogger]

This sounds like the ranting of a 100 handicap player. Those who can't play, either respect the game or talk trach about it. Let's see how Michael does against any driving range pro. Then see how that pro does against Tiger, that will give him an idea of the tiers of golf ability that are required.