Sports

it is. … but I really don't enjoy watching competitions

I do long distance trail running and road races, backpack, ski, mountain bike, row crew, lift weights and play frisbee.

I think physical fitness is important, but competition is bourgeoisie. Also video games are dumb unless they are meme games like RuneScape.

While I believe the capitalist system is actually an enemy of free competition, I believe competition is sort of human nature

I don't think you'll ever erase the desire to be appreciated by your peers through achievements. But that's not a bad thing is it?

But it's not. Competition is the only way you can measure yourself and improve the sport as a whole. If you never compete, you'll never know how good you could get and you'll never add anything. Competition is good.

There's an important distinction to be made between the desire to be appreciated by your peers through achievement, and the desire to bolster your own self worth through achievement at the expense of others.

When I say competition, I am referring to the idea that real life scenarios are zero-sum, meaning that if you win, someone else looses. This conception of competition is a bourgeoisie spook that serves the same role in pacifying the proletariat as le human nature meme. In the real world, groups get ahead by pushing to be better not only for their own sake but for the benefit of the group as a whole. Before you say "no, they only appear to be working for the good of the group, but it is all really for their own social standing and their own well being as a result of group prospering" let me remind you that the idea that altruism and selfishness are diametrically opposed is also a bourgeoisie spook, serving to corroborate le "individualist vs. collectivist" meme that plagues our public discourse and generates ideological polarization.

Sure, but how is me taking on another team or person in a competition of wits and strength what you're describing. We're talking about sports, remember

I agree with the rest of your post but I believe the feeling of losing is not interlocked with materialism. When my girlfriend leaves me for a better looking guy, I loose. When my colleague makes a better job in the lab, I lose. People interpret losing for themselves, not necessarily through the smugness of the guy who outpaced you. I think competing is inherent to us not from the perspective of feeling good at the expect of others, but for the self-criticism we aim at ourselves constantly, which is a evolutionary trait in us.

All we can do is to abolish economic losing or flatten the ground as much as possible.

Competitions of wit and strength can have utility when they are not used to inform or paradigm for understand human affairs as a whole.

The problem is that in things like sports and video games, the main goal of the activity is to win. People can impose other goals such as self improvement, but in terms of how the game is structured, the goal is to win. The games wouldn't function properly otherwise.

Participating in activities where winning at the expense of others, and especially having kids participate in these activities, reinforces the conception that the real world operates in this way. Which of course, it doesn't. This worldview makes us accept things like workplace and academic competition, which go against our collective and individual interests.

This is why games are a product of ruling ideology and should be viewed skeptically. Not that they should be abandoned completely or anything, but placing them at the center of our lives in the way we do, without thinking critically about them, is dangerous.

Actually a lot of traditional, formal sports literally demand from you to be respectful towards your opponent, correct the referee when he gave you an advantage by mistake, etc.

It's mostly sports for the masses like football or basketball where the athletes evolve this sense of competition you phrased out, but that's mostly because they have massive profits and corporate interests behind it and are in general part of the spectacle. You'd not have this in socialism

I jog a couple of miles whenever it's sunny outside. Otherwise I play competitive mode in shooter games all day.

Liftan.

In a mere 16 months, I have gained the nagging doubt of why I keep doing it despite getting no results.

Road cycling (Nothing competitive just solo/group rides)

Lifting (I finished SS, had to take a month off because of stress and now I think I'm going to try a PPL)

Fuck yes. I think that capitalism is encouraging men to become more "feminine" (weak and lazy) and we need to stop it.
Working people need to be empowered and physical fitness is a significant part of that.

this is disgraceful, you're going to regret your weak lower back and legs when you're older. don't neglect half your body and most of your muscle mass.

I used to play intramural soccer before I dropped out. I really miss it.
There are some adult leagues around but I gotta get my life together and get back in shape before I start interacting with people again.

absolutely. Burgerstan could use all the physical fitness help it can get.

I do isolate my lower back. I just don't do deadlifts.

And my legs are naturally pretty thick/muscular so I don't really see the point.

forgot this

why?

Man, fencing always sounded fun, but rapier and main gauche always looks bad ass. I honestly am not involved in sports or competition. Only one I pay much attention to is Melee, though I could be easily persuaded to get more into watching competitive Quake. Hockey, rugby, and mostly any combat sport are what I prefer to watch.

I don't lift for strength. I do it to generally be fitter and for looks. You can find it shallow but it gives me confidence. I used to be extremely shy and felt emasculated. An athletic, muscular look gives me heaps of self-confidence. If I'm getting stronger in the process it is a nice side effect at least.

Used to play a lot when I was growing up. Soccer, basketball, cricket, tennis, water polo.

These days I'm too depressed to do much. Haven't played any sport in years properly. I'm not fat and I can still do physical work if needed, just don't have the energy, confidence, money or motivation to play sport.

Fishing

That explains athletes doing these illuminati handsigns!

Only a few selected spots actually cost money. The ones with expensive equipment. Why don't you just get a gym membership? It is affordable even for someone constantly broke like me and the fact that you have it for at least 6 months or something somehow pushes you into going there.

I like tennis more than the others though, which unfortunately needs equipment.
Doesn't interest me

Cross Country running and hiking mostly.

The point isn't that they cause people to be disrespectful or ruthless, although obviously sportsmanship is a good thing, the point is that whether or not people are sore losers, someone is losing and the other person is winning. Again, there is nothing inherently wrong with this, until it is unquestioningly placed at the center of our lives and becomes a cultural value that is applied outside of its appropriate context.

I'm not saying it was an intentional move on the part of some shady elite. It is rather an organic manifestation of our cultures paradigm for viewing class relations.

Modern video games and Sporting events are culture industry and reinforce neo-darwinian corporate fascist attack-dog/gang mindsets. The point shouldn't be that games are inherently bad or not in touch with reality, but that games as they exist in this cultural milieu with the basic intentions and context of competition and domination are something that reflects the ruling ideology. They aren't necessarily causative, there's no necessary direct link between sports and capitalism. But it, just like sores are a sign of serious disease, could be a symptom or warning sign of the malignancy of the culture industry.

I played American football back in the day, but I watch a bit of everything now.

I used to really knock esports, but I've gotten into it recently.

What e-sports? LoL based stuff?