A comment I’ve left in David’s last article:
The ceremony? A revolting demonstration of how “One World, One Dream” means the destruction of all diversity for the sake of some governing power that be, forcing a single idea on everyone. A vomiting sequence of thousands of ants and bees moving at the compass of the negation of self.
That’s what that ceremony is all about: a demonstration of power: “we have 1500 million nameless people under our power, ready to move as we tell them to”. It makes me think of the “Borg” in the Star Trek movies: “All resistance is futile”.
You know what? This ceremony & in general these games makes me think about the 1978 Argentina Soccer World Cup. There were merely 200 meters between the largest stadium (River Plate, in the neighborhood of Núñez) and one of the biggest concentration and torture camps of the dictatorship (The “Escuela de Mecanica de la Armada”).
This ceremony is as revolting as the declaration of Muñoz, a radio and TV speaker, saying “We Argentines are Human and Righteous”. Because right there they were drowning and burning pregnant women and stealing their babies. And 500 meters away from the river, where they were throwing corpses (and living people too) into oblivion, with their feet in concrete to ensure their eternal silence.
For me this ceremony is like watching Argentina winning 6-0 against Peru in the semifinal. The same bad joke, and the people in the country defending themselves against the “bad foreign press”, who are “jealous” of how good their country is doing.
I want to vomit. This is a big circus and everyone is watching it. Geez. I’m not happy.
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08.13.2008
Interesting link to Argentina in ‘78. I’d be curious to know if most Argentinians acknowledge the paradox that you describe. The impression I had during my one and only visit there ten years ago is that people were still not ready to speak openly about events from that long nightmare.
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