11/22/2025
Dare I poke the bear on this topic? I think I will. Ill never defend this "sport", but at the same time I don't defend football, boxing, or any other gladiator sport that destroys the physical health of those players.
What is it that makes us want to see these things? Why has this tradition been part of our societies through history? What exactly makes us so bloodthirsty we watch these things for entertainment?
I think its rooted in envy and respect. But why do we destroy those we envy and respect?
To understand the history of dog fighting is not to justify it, but to face the truth about human nature:
Dog fighting was never cruelty for cruelty’s sake. It revolved around one idea: the admiration of gameness - a trait every culture, in every era, has celebrated for as long as records exist. It describes the refusal to surrender under pressure, pain, or crippling disadvantage. The triumph of spirit over self-preservation. A quality that has always fascinated us, human beings, probably since our existence.
And it still does. It would be naive to believe that modern society has lost its interest in that kind of unbreakable will. Far from it. We have simply learned to consume it in forms that allow us to deny what we are truly drawn to.
The denial itself is the only modern invention.
📷 Garrett's CH JEEP ROM