Pathology resident doing research here. Dr. Omalu is a very spiritual person and I've been impressed how persuasive that spiritual part of his discussion can be outside the scientific community. He did important work, but pushing the findings out beyond his cohort was what made the difference. I think there's something to learn there.
"Who will train all the NFL stars?" That's really what it boils down to. Training the million dollar gladiators for our modern society. Living vicariously through innocent children. Parental adrenaline rushes. It's sick. We should just ban it. It's worse than corporal punishment and that'll get a teacher fired but we let kids pummel each other on the field and it's fine. It's ridiculous. Those kids aren't choosing that for themselves. We won't let them drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes, but we'll let them do that to themselves to get a smile out of mommy and daddy. It's awful!<p>I've gone from super excited about life and the future when I sat down at my computer to pessimistic and frustrated with society.