I had an idea today...I think the next olympics should be in Kabul or Baghdad, no, seriously think about it.
It seems like the best way to get people to pour money into development is to host the olympics.
And you could modify the games to incorperate the customs and daily lives of the local people.
In kabul you could have the landmine gauntlets instead of the hurdles, and throw the unexploded ammunition before it blows your hand off, in place of shot put.
What about 'find the cluster bomb' in Iraq?
It seems ludicrous that we in the west and we as Australians should pat ourselves on the back about how great our achievements are and how marvelous we are for spending billions of dollars on what has essentially become an advertising and marketers wet dream.
Meanwhile Afghanistans Minister for development reports that the coffers are dry, western governments who promised huge development loans have not come good on their promises, and the countries biggest economy is again opium.
Iraq is in chaos the countries basic services like power and clean water are still non existent in many places.
Most of the money has been poured into resurrecting the oil industry which is now privately contracted to huge american oil conglomerates and rebuilding the military and government facilities.
Thorpey wins gold! Frontpage headline.
Another poor kid joins the list of millions who are known only by number never by name, who have died from preventable disease and malnutrition.
Sweet Fuck all! Not even worthy of reporting. Do we now as human beings judge the value of life in purely media values? Are some people unpeople?
The olympics is just hype, its false sanctamonious rhetoric about a world in peace and brotherhood is a hypocrisy.
When the poor and homeless are swept off the streets of athens and hidden behind coorperate billboards and holding cells, and the people of Iraq and Afghanistan and a hundred other countries go another day without food in their bellies and medicine for their ill, we have to take a step back and ask ourselves how will history judge our great achievments?
It just fucking overwhelms me sometimes just how little control we actually have over the things that really matter in life.
Sorry for the diatribe.
In happier news their is a huge geko right in front of me, and they unlike the olympics are fucking cool.
Peace, chop.
It seems like the best way to get people to pour money into development is to host the olympics.
And you could modify the games to incorperate the customs and daily lives of the local people.
In kabul you could have the landmine gauntlets instead of the hurdles, and throw the unexploded ammunition before it blows your hand off, in place of shot put.
What about 'find the cluster bomb' in Iraq?
It seems ludicrous that we in the west and we as Australians should pat ourselves on the back about how great our achievements are and how marvelous we are for spending billions of dollars on what has essentially become an advertising and marketers wet dream.
Meanwhile Afghanistans Minister for development reports that the coffers are dry, western governments who promised huge development loans have not come good on their promises, and the countries biggest economy is again opium.
Iraq is in chaos the countries basic services like power and clean water are still non existent in many places.
Most of the money has been poured into resurrecting the oil industry which is now privately contracted to huge american oil conglomerates and rebuilding the military and government facilities.
Thorpey wins gold! Frontpage headline.
Another poor kid joins the list of millions who are known only by number never by name, who have died from preventable disease and malnutrition.
Sweet Fuck all! Not even worthy of reporting. Do we now as human beings judge the value of life in purely media values? Are some people unpeople?
The olympics is just hype, its false sanctamonious rhetoric about a world in peace and brotherhood is a hypocrisy.
When the poor and homeless are swept off the streets of athens and hidden behind coorperate billboards and holding cells, and the people of Iraq and Afghanistan and a hundred other countries go another day without food in their bellies and medicine for their ill, we have to take a step back and ask ourselves how will history judge our great achievments?
It just fucking overwhelms me sometimes just how little control we actually have over the things that really matter in life.
Sorry for the diatribe.
In happier news their is a huge geko right in front of me, and they unlike the olympics are fucking cool.
Peace, chop.
btw.. i agree gekos funkin rule.
Go the gecko and I promise to only watch the Athens Olympics a little bit and to feel guilty when doing so. I only like watching the womens gymnastics, swimming and diving events anyway for there aesthetics value of course. Ill boycott the rest on principle, you know the power of one and all that.
Nuckinya