Now you’re on to something. You’re finally understanding. You call it the evolution of Americans. I call it the castration of Americans. The pussification would also be accurate. You see there’s a disconnect between the two sides in our country. There are guys like me who love our traditions, history, etc and those who want to become you. Pool has usually historically been the former. Most who play it now are older males who go to the pool room to cuss, stare at woman with tight clothes and loose morals, smoke, drink, and generally be what males have been since the dawn of the human race. Unfortunately the folks who run everything want pool to be a “high class” artsy fartsy shitshow with prim and proper asexual eunuchs. The European influence makes matters worse because y’all are already castrated. Those of us complaining don’t want to be like the folks our country had to save twice in the last century. We want to be like those who did the saving. We know what they were like because they raised us. Now as Euro type shit is increasingly influential in pro pool we find it distasteful. As for why new players aren’t coming in it has many elements but to your point: yes, the allure of pool and pool rooms is usually the fact that it is one of the last vestiges of historic American masculinity. The fact that your mindset against such is becoming more and more the norm in our schools, media et al the less likely it is that the beta-males being created by our institutions will ever come in. Those who reject this and want to keep their balls are pariahs and outcasts. Since we have no distinctly AMERICAN PRO POOL for our own players there is no incentive for young men to dedicate themselves to become excellent pool players anyway. But we just keep catering to the rest of the world anyway.
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