I am not satisfied with the last post's analysis of the UTV industry. The question remains: why would such an un-fun "sport" be so popular, given the expense of buying it, the hassle of putting it on a trailer to take it anywhere, and the hot, confining body armor you are supposed to wear?
Let's look at this photo again:
When trying to explain how other people think, it is necessary to set aside my own approach towards nature, with the skin being my main sensory organ, and look at it from other people's perspective.
For most people (and virtually all tourists), eyes are the main sensory organ. What do their eyes see in that photo?
They see a military-like machine, exuding power, violence, and destruction in the desert Mideast. Support the Troops!!! After all, many Americans virtually worship the U.S. military, and many tourists in Colorado come from the Bible states to the east, with a mutated form of Christianity that pines for Israel, war, and the Rapture.
Surely someone in the marketing department of the UTV manufacturers has played around with the idea of mounting ostensibly "practical" structures on the top of the UTV to suggest a machine gun. Similarly some kind of horizontal tube on the sides would suggest a missile launcher. Their potential customers would be sexually aroused.
Let's look at this photo again:
When trying to explain how other people think, it is necessary to set aside my own approach towards nature, with the skin being my main sensory organ, and look at it from other people's perspective.
For most people (and virtually all tourists), eyes are the main sensory organ. What do their eyes see in that photo?
They see a military-like machine, exuding power, violence, and destruction in the desert Mideast. Support the Troops!!! After all, many Americans virtually worship the U.S. military, and many tourists in Colorado come from the Bible states to the east, with a mutated form of Christianity that pines for Israel, war, and the Rapture.
Surely someone in the marketing department of the UTV manufacturers has played around with the idea of mounting ostensibly "practical" structures on the top of the UTV to suggest a machine gun. Similarly some kind of horizontal tube on the sides would suggest a missile launcher. Their potential customers would be sexually aroused.
Comments
1) NOISE. The louder the machine, the more Male Power exhibited.
2) SPEED. A fast machine demonstrates Male Power.
3) DANGER. Risk-taking is raw Male Power on display, even if the danger is more in appearance than reality.
Why does Make Power motivate such behavior? You guessed it: because it attracts females.
Based on your comment you would have loved the two ATVers who went through the area yesterday: one of them had a tall gun case attached vertically to the machine. I don't know if Colorado even has a hunting season right now. And I wonder if he even had a gun inside the case.
But it made a phallic symbol!