"I hate golf. I do not understand how anyone can enjoy it, much less love it"
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Mohr’s little tantrum about golf lands because it refuses the polite neutrality we’re trained to perform around other people’s hobbies. Golf, especially in American culture, isn’t just a pastime; it’s a status-coded ritual: leisure with a dress code, a sprawling time commitment, and an unspoken network effect. When Mohr says he “does not understand” how anyone could enjoy it, he’s not really confessing confusion. He’s rejecting the social script that demands you nod along, accept the corporate retreat mythos, and pretend four hours of curated frustration counts as fun.
The phrasing matters. “Hate” is blunt, comic, a hard left turn from the usual “it’s not for me.” Then the escalation: “enjoy it, much less love it.” That “much less” is doing the heavy lifting, casting golf devotion as a kind of emotional misfire. It turns a preference into a personality critique: how do you not only tolerate this, but attach affection to it?
As an actor-comedian, Mohr’s intent isn’t policy; it’s tribal signaling. He’s aligning himself with the people who see golf as performative idling, a game designed to monetize patience and etiquette, where the point is less the sport than the permission it grants: to be unavailable, to talk business, to cosplay calm. The joke is that golf’s biggest feature isn’t joy; it’s plausible deniability.
The phrasing matters. “Hate” is blunt, comic, a hard left turn from the usual “it’s not for me.” Then the escalation: “enjoy it, much less love it.” That “much less” is doing the heavy lifting, casting golf devotion as a kind of emotional misfire. It turns a preference into a personality critique: how do you not only tolerate this, but attach affection to it?
As an actor-comedian, Mohr’s intent isn’t policy; it’s tribal signaling. He’s aligning himself with the people who see golf as performative idling, a game designed to monetize patience and etiquette, where the point is less the sport than the permission it grants: to be unavailable, to talk business, to cosplay calm. The joke is that golf’s biggest feature isn’t joy; it’s plausible deniability.
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