Alexander Hamilton

Hamilton.
Gentlemen, I maintain that those machines which demand the careful memorizing of particular strokes and combinations—such as the combat styled Mortal Kombat—are the superior order of diversion. In them a man rises by industry alone. He who invests hours in the study of the proper sequences, who drills the fingers until they obey without thought, earns the victory. This is the true spirit of a free people: that excellence should be open to all who will labor for it, and that the reward should follow the effort. To prefer mere chance is to slight the very principle of improvement upon which our republic rests. Jefferson.
And I say the contrary. Those diversions in which the outcome turns more upon fortune—such as the pulling of a lever in pinball—are the more agreeable and the more republican. They place the novice upon a level with the practiced hand. No long apprenticeship is required; no prior advantage is suffered to dictate the result. In such games the field is equalized, and a man may enjoy himself without the burden of having first devoted half his life to the mastery of secret motions. Is it not the freer amusement that asks nothing of past privilege? Hamilton.
Privilege? Sir, you speak as though diligence itself were a crime. The man who has spent his evenings committing the combinations to memory has earned his superiority by honest application. Consider the farmer who improves his soil by constant care, or the soldier who masters his drill. Shall we call their advantage unjust? To cry equality against such exertion is to discourage industry. I declare that you, in championing pure chance, betray the freedom spirit of the American people—the freedom, namely, for some men to excel at games by the sweat of their own practice, and for others to admire or emulate them. That is liberty properly understood. Jefferson.
You twist the meaning of liberty to suit a narrow ambition. And I declare that you, sir, are a privileged dark wizard of false pretenses. You would cloak the advantage of long familiarity in the language of virtue, and call it justice when the unpracticed are shut out. Your “skill” is but the accumulated fortune of those who have had the leisure and the means to practice. What of the laboring man who has but an hour after his day’s toil? Shall he be forever bested by one who has rehearsed his strokes a thousand times in idleness? True freedom equalizes the chance; it does not enthrone the few who have already mastered their motions. Hamilton.
Idleness! You name industry idleness because it does not serve your fancy for equal outcomes without equal effort. A free people must be free to improve themselves, even if that improvement leaves others behind for a season. The alternative is a dull level in which no man strives and all remain mediocre. Your pinball equalizes only by denying the fruits of application. That is not freedom; it is the envy of the unpracticed dressed as principle. Jefferson.
And your Mortal Kombat enthrones only those who can afford the time and the coins to practice until the machine yields to them. It is a closed circle, favoring the same hands again and again. Chance at least opens the door. A single fortunate pull may give the newcomer his moment of triumph, and that hope itself is more republican than your endless rehearsals. You speak of the spirit of the people, yet you would reserve excellence for the few who have already claimed it. Hamilton.
I speak of the spirit that built this republic—men willing to study, to practice, to perfect. You would replace that with the roll of a lever and call the result justice. Mark me, sir: such a preference leads only to the decay of every useful art. Jefferson.
And mark me in return: your preference leads to an aristocracy of the practiced, dressed in the plain coat of republican virtue. I will have none of it. Washington.
Gentlemen! Stay your hands and moderate your speech. This contest grows unseemly. Hear me. It matters littl

In the Tone of the Revolutionary Era Hear ye, my fellow countrymen and patriots! I speak as one who has stood with General Washington upon the frozen fields of Valley Forge and the muddy banks of the Delaware. Tonight, Monday the twenty-sixth of October in the year of our Lord 2026, three contests contend for the single glowing box that sits within the common room. Yet I say unto you that the game of baseball—the national pastime, the game of our fathers and grandfathers—must claim that solitary screen. Baseball is the best game in America by right of tradition. It was played by soldiers in the camps of the late war, by boys in the fields of Virginia and New York long before any modern league. Its rhythms are those of the pastoral republic Washington himself cherished: nine innings, measured and deliberate, like the slow turning of the seasons. The World Series Game the Third, Brewers against Rays at eight of the clock upon FOX, carries the weight of more than a century of autumn championships. To turn the dial from it would be to turn our backs upon the very continuity that binds the republic. But mark! Here come Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, those eternal antagonists, and on this rare evening they are of one mind against me. Hamilton:
General, with respect, tradition is a fine cloak, yet it does not feed the living body of the nation. The National Football League is the game that now commands the public mind. Tonight the Cowboys meet the Eagles at a quarter past eight upon ABC and ESPN. The media, the moving pictures, the great spectacles of the age have made football the true American contest. It is the game of industry, of concentrated force, of the commercial republic I sought to build. One television exists in this house. It must show the Monday night game, for that is the game the people themselves have chosen through their newspapers, their theaters, and their constant talk. Jefferson:
For once, Mr. Hamilton, I concur—though for reasons of my own. You speak of commerce and spectacle; I speak of the vigor of the people. Football has entered the culture more deeply in these latter days. Its heroes stride across the silver screen and the public imagination as no baseball player now does. The single box can display but one contest. Let it be the NFL, for the spirit of the yeoman is now stirred more by the clash of lines than by the measured pitch. The baseball championship, however venerable, has become the quieter pastime; the football game is the louder voice of the present republic. Hamilton (again):
Observe, General—we agree! A singular event. My reason is the power of modern media and the moving pictures that bind the commercial nation together. Football fills the theaters and the evening talk; it is the game the market has crowned. Jefferson:
And mine is the culture of the free citizen. The films and the public discourse have made the NFL the more American contest of our time. Tradition alone cannot claim the only screen when the living people have turned their eyes elsewhere. Thus the two old rivals stand shoulder to shoulder, each for his distinct cause, both insisting that the solitary television must be given to the Cowboys and the Eagles. The baseball game of tradition waits upon FOX; the football game of the present age waits upon ABC. Choose, then, as free men must—but know that Hamilton and Jefferson have, for this one night, buried their quarrel in favor of the modern contest.

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