Friday, December 9, 2011

Juggling History: Combat

Combat is a juggling game, a very very fun juggling game. Combat, in its most typical form, consists of a number of players juggling three clubs each, attempting to interfere with other players' juggling, with the winner being the last to remain juggling three clubs — not necessarily those they started with. It gets very intense and very violent.

When you have 20 jugglers with clubs flailing around and clubs high in the air and clubs everywhere, people get hurt. But it is still fun. The point of the game is to throw one club high enough that you have time to take your other clubs and whack peoples clubs out of their hands. It may sound stupid, but if you watch the video below you will understand.

The idea of the public sphere was invented by Habermas and then reinvented by Aaron Barlow in terms of blogs. Well combat is like a jugglers public sphere, except people get severely injured and don't share any information. Oh, and to make things even more official there is a league MLC, Major League Combat.
Just watch the video...

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