Olympic Spirit

This is going to be a diatribe on how the Olympics are no more moral than war!
I know it sounds ridiculous so you know what... if you wish you can stop reading now.
Otherwise SHeeeeYeDDup and read (dont know if i wouldve been so loose as to go there if i wasn't onto my second 40oz)


Let me ask you a question, a few questions:

-If there were games every four years in which all Men in the world organized their best players ___ and all women in the world organized their best players so that Men can challenge Women for supremisy, what would you think about that?

-How about all folk daker than a brown paper bag vs everyone lighter than a brown paper bag?

*HERE YOU GO WITH THE TREE HUGGER SHIT*

-What about all little wee wee guys vs all big wee wee guys?

*ROOM goES SilEnt




As a former athlete and student of the game (namely Baseball) i tend to lend great respect to "the natural"; the individual who made it and excelled off of little more than their grit/determination, knowledge/instincts, and physical ability. I suspect that while the general public ooos and ahhhs over the more polished players, (piveledged to have the best equipment, with trainers and dieticians whom keep a schedule for them, with access to not only some of the most healthy food but often genetically enhanced food) , the PURISTS (coaches and fellow players)marvel over the man whom trained running with worn down shoes yet wins the race, the boxer whom enters the ring looking malnourished and stands victorious, the female raised in a society where women are kept in their homes like veal and lift the gold. And this is how the purist feels REGUARDLESS of whether or not that athlete is your own or one from an opposing team.
But the olympics are not for the purists.. they are for the massess. And the media influences how we see these games.. it tunes our lens to apply our faith and pride in the flag over which these human beings compete rather than over the banner of human kind. It generates feelings of nationalism and patriotism in a world where such concepts are ALOT more transparent then they once were.

The Internet (World Wide Web)
Multi-National Corporations and 'world banks'
Interracial families
Intercontinental Political/ economic Unions: ex: European Union
Churches, ideological centers which organize people of all nations
ect...

The world is no longer divided by borders. It is no wonder a large number of people polled insisted that the olympics do not appeal to them, they do not watch them! When i think of someone sitting on front of the tv crying over some fellow countryman winning a medal i laugh. Now in days the teams are often not even completely made up of people whom are actually from the nations they represent at the games. You have Brazilians playing on the Italian team, Americans playing on the Russian team, Africans playing on the French team. It is all about the money, and if you have any historical dept of knowledge the olympics emphasize colonial dynamics. Of course the English, the US, the Russians, China, Saudi Arabia win every war, every olympics, every gain in the stock market... they have divided the world amongst them. They have monopolized the worlds resources and are the centers best to turn towards to attain 'the best' of anything.
BUT like i said... the world as one people are resisting this psychology of dominance. We dont want war because now, as opposed to the past, we have all the information and when considered, it doesnt often make sense... we are more readily prepared to speak about alternatives (your leader wants war and my leader wants war? well shit... he didnt ask us first. You know what... yours didnt ask yall first. Why are we listening to these jerks? get rid of him and we will get rid of ours here so that we, the more cooler heads, can discuss a way to turn this into a plus) ___Of course it isnt always that way and most of the times more complicated, but without a question that freedom for the common people to have a say exists today more than ever, where in the past when information wasnt so readily available___

Same thing with the Olympics. They promote division and some kind of subliminal fascism. Look at what it has done. Everyone is accusing everyone else of stacking the ranks: The chinese want the most team goals, they have installed bias judges :: The Americans want the athlete with the most medals so they count relay medals (which took team effort) amongst Phelps' golds

*OH NO YOU DIDN'T.. LEAVE PHELPS ALONE*

See what i mean?

Last i saw Michael Phelps he was hugged up on his moms titty talking to reporters bout how much he misses his XBOX and Cereal! (It'll be three years before we discover that like many before him over the last 2 decades, he took some kind of perfomance enhancement) OR maybe not

My goal is not to hate on anybody. More power to Phelps. He is a superb athlete. But im just saying. Some people apply a significance to these games that does not exist. Like there are thousands of people who all of a sudden feel as if though social injustice and imperialism do not matter because Phelps sweapt the games and proved Americas greatness. Why not that he proved his own greatness, and happend to be fortunate enough to have the best training. SOmewhere in that story i can admit just as well that it proves our greatness as a species, that we have developed the technology to cultivate what was impossible in the past. We can do this without allowing our pride to become our ignorance.


Anyway im tired of bitching
i have no sources to transform this rant into any kind of article
so i will leave it as a spear in the sky
If you find it coming your way and wish to return fire
i will gladly invite the debate

as for now im going to fall back...
seems this drink is putting me to sleep