[just posted this on site incredible called freedarko.com wanted to store here to expand upon 1 day soon... on the topic of the olympics...]deron said "there's a time and place for everything. and this isn't the time for that." and unpopular though the notion rings the spirit that is the olympics feels to me like one of celebration, of athletic prowess and national pride. not nitpicking (no matter how large or atrocious it is the nit that is to be picked).
maybe as suggested hitler used olympic berlin to futher fan flames fascist. but what's that mean? 1 man the mein kampf architect rallies a nation. he did that before those games and he did it after. the olympics and life--what you make of it, it becomes. if 1 tries to make it a stage of protest, a national platform to voice views, the chinese hand will come down, inevitable, the only power in the world that can quiet the loud of the web. doesn't mean a protestor shouldn't try and do what he does. but on 8/8 should he be talking tibet, holding posters and placards?
the games come around once every 4. is it pretentious/is it an unbearably grand sweeping under the rug/a big fake smile if we just try to enjoy it? to compete without weapons of destruction mass, just minimal traces of steroids or something of the sort. war for rings and not for oil. is it microcosm-like shit? or perhaps universe parallel where things are prettily harmonious. a break from reality, like television, like books, like the arts, like ... sports.
can we escape without shame? there's a time and place for everything. this isn't the time, place for that. in his words. in my opinion.
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