2012 Olympics
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- mikotondria30
I actually enjoyed the end, my snarky sense left me and it was great to see Annie Lennox, and Eric Idle and even fucking Russell Brand looking totally in the moment and everyone really enjoying themselves, it was a great show. It's big and clever to hate on everything and I'm as big and clever as anyone, but sometimes it's worthwhile to just be able to put that aside and sit with your kid and explain who these people are and what their cultural significance is. Spice Girls, really ? Ah but they looked good for people who were at their zenith 15 years ago, it was an almost impossibly lavish and complex thing to pull off and they managed it. No one was a massive prick and tried to blow up anyone else, all the athletes' camaraderie with other teams was excellent and a perfect example of what an anachronism nation states are; in sport, technology, culture, music, science, etc, the nation state is a pointless layer of awkwardness and abstraction to be negotiated around. Only in politics do people act as if the national barriers that cut through humanity have any reality. Any other discipline or field of endevour ignores them, save for the added impetus it gives to competitive games - even then it's just a flag - they are competing for the whole country against another country, they're competing to be the best, for their team, for everyone that's supported them. Countries are a stupid idea, get rid of them - let's just do sport and music and science and everything else we do, but with less paperwork. That's what I took away from the Olympics.
- *not ACTUALLY as clever as anyone, obviously. Clever for me, though. Sometimes.mikotondria3
- Excellent postPeter
- Imagine...Chimp
- Well said. I enjoyed it with my son also. They got rid of the typical theatrical bullshit and decided to jam the entire night. Well Done.OSFA