Such machinations of sport have been seen throughout history and serve to stimulate the conqueror nature of man and allow it to flourish through the mastery of a medium other than the violent practices of old. Competition fuels the cultural trauma of tribal war, specifically through using the same emotional set. The exact context of an event or practice means next to zero when compared to the emotional context of the thing itself. If one could place another in a empty room and trigger the emotional set of childbirth, it would be as practically synonymous to the thing itself. Hence the experience of reality works with feeling above material, something more spiritual, as seen by many and spoken of by a few.

Meditate.