the problem with golf
A short Bitsy essay written for my Deep Ecology: Environmental Ethics class. Based on an essay I wrote analyzing the relationship between golf, colonialism, and power.
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such a cool way to use bitsy for an essay :) i love your background designs. they're beautiful!
Really good presentation!
It sounds like your main objections to golf are that it uses a lot of labor and resources.
However, your solution of seed-bombing golf courses will probably just cause *more* labor and resources to be spent in order to remove the seeds. Seems unlikely that the owner will just give up and turn it into a nature preserve.
So while your analysis seems fairly reasonable, your conclusion is actively harmful.
Actually, my main objections to golf are its racist and colonial history, its waste of resources and land, and how it is an elitist sport that exists as a display of wealth over actual leisure!
My conclusion of "seedbombing" was largely a joke, but at the same time-- I, like you, don't anticipate the owner of a golf course giving in to external pressure over environmental concerns. So I think renegade action could be necessary in the event that people with power continue to waste resources for the sake of wealth.
In regards to it creating more labor...I'm fine with that, frankly, so long as the labor is fairly compensated! This essay was not intended to provide a quick solution to the problem with golf; it is me examining its origins and it history within the context of an environmental philosophy course I was enrolled in. Revolution is easy to dream about and complicated to execute, and this essay was not meant to focus on the nuance of radical change.
I appreciate you taking the time to play my game; perhaps next time, you'll read it too!
This was a really charming way to speak some truth about a really dumb sport. Thank you for making this. There's some real craft in it
I love the format of this!!
thank you vian!!! you introduced me to bitsy and i finally got to try it out haha