Hoosiers: Paradise-Lost

Can basketball/TV create a 'diagram' for Western civilization humility?

An homage to what makes sports-TV reflective of American pride, inspired by Hoosiers (Gene Hackman). Enjoy, 

----

====

I was investigating the special choreography of youthful populism-spirits oriented 'folk-graffiti' and comics-arts for the social-media culture in the American Homeland for post-9/11 era 'chess' ideations of the colors/shapes of street storytelling concerning traffic vigilance and energetic competition-class fantasy (wow).

I decided to post Selfies on social-media alongside my stories about capitalism-race superstition tales on the cyber-highway to create a special 'diagram' concerning the complexity and shapes of competition-class activity in the media-broadcast era drawing interest from modern age Homeland intelligentsia/citizenry (like me!).

The Homeland felt that 'undoubted' safe-zone of traffic/city 'shock' on 9/11 when terrorists crashed hijacked passenger-planes into the globalism-commerce symbolic World Trade Center (NYC). In this new age of media-broadcast era 'chess' excellence, such a 'trauma' would create a ripple-effect regarding the sheer complexity and symbolic value of shared images of social activity speaking to humanity-unifying or even competition-class activity, right?

That's (really) why I took a special 'event' image, available (today!) on social-media (e.g., YouTube), the 'iconic' 1992 men's national semifinal college-basketball 'showdown' between the defending-champ Duke Blue Devils (coached by prodigy-man Coach K) and the defiant/striking Indiana Hoosiers of legendary coach Bob Knight. Now, we all know Indiana-basketball had (already) become a 20th-Century hallmark (or 'standard') of media-broadcast era college-athletics 'celebration' excellence, and this 'complex' showcase between Duke-Indiana (1992) suggested to me that modern media-culture/activity revealed a special complexity/traffic 'intrigue' or 'chess' imagination concerning how capitalism can be reflected through the TV-lens of 'academic' expression (or excellence!). This is the age of Televised Highness (certainly).

The Americana-team of the Hoosiers (Bob Knight) were doing very well against the defending-champ Duke team (Coach K) and would have maintained their 'dashing' lead with striking/potent offense in this semifinal matchup between two very very different college-basketball programs were it not for the ingenious marshaling 'chess-acumen' of Coach K's prodigy-guard (Bob Hurley) who'd eventually help the 'hot' Blue Devils get to their 2nd consecutive national laurel (ha). However, this 'feature-portrait' of defiant Hoosiers 'basketball-TV' illuminated something quite 'special' about the media/TV/Internet era of reviewed social activity and competition/education --- the color(s) of purified highness (or even intrigue).

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”

― Phil Jackson

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

====

"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)