How are the people doing?:
Personnel manual here for years:
Let's dust off a new Olde idea:
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Michael Phelps is God-like.
There are many people in this town organizing against the upcoming Olympics of 2016. They site economic and social reasons of costs and displacement, along with corruption and waste as primary reasons.
I would like them to look at the philosophy of the Olympics and view it as detrimental to the mental health of the citizens. If your child comes home from school and tells you they had a spelling bee that day, rest assured your child has a lazy, unimaginative teacher that plays favorites. Anyone that would allow one winner and all the rest losers is sick. If destroying capitalism is your thing then destroying competition and the celebration of competition should be your calling. Olympics divides people under bickering national flags, is corrupt beyond measure for the sanctified gold medal, and underpins the corporate mentality of prized CEO's, dictators and elitism.
A game is a game. A race is a race. A beauty contest is a beauty contest. Nothing more, nothing less. Are they honestly going to tell me a hockey player is near god-like because his team won a game? He's a hockey player, for Christsakes. Does the one swimmer who won by one thousandth of a second make all the striving swimmers in the world second class? How petty. And as the graceful divers and ice skaters twist and swirl one country's judge gives them a 10 and the other a 2. This isn't sport, it's politics.
I want to see a group of people lined up on Normandy Beach and I want them to swim to Dover. I want another group to climb Mt Everest and the first one there has to set up a picnic. And a good leisurely walk from New York to San Francisco where everyone can participate would be my idea of Olympic endeavors. This 4 year sham, born of the Berlin 1936 drama, is psychologically damaging to every person that doesn't measure up to an unreachable ideal. Like that kid that won the spelling bee and you still resent for it, we should look at these coddled rich kids posing as Olympic champions and remind them it is very lonely at the top.
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