Olympic Opening
The evening before, I asked my neighbor “ Are you going to watch Olympic Opening ?”
as he got fancy satellite receiver and big screen TV. He said, “may be, but shall we go to a pub to
see it in their big screen”. —– So, we went to a pub round the corner.
This is the first time to go into this pub since I moved to this area 11 years ago.
(As I don’t drink alcohol I rarely go to a pub, except a meeting took place in a pub).
The TV was there though, nobody was watching. The next day’s news said nearly 27 million
people did watch the Opening program = out of 65 million in the UK = it was far less
than half of the population ! = this is the first fraud, the government and the media
have to juggle 😀 (Instead to say 40%, 27 million sound a lot to the most of the people’s brain)
So-called Democracy is based on the support of the majority = popular support
= populism. While forcing austere measure to the people, still spending £9.5 billion =
In order to justify its spending, government had to create an impression
“ Everybody excited and support the Olympic”.
In this populism concept, this Olympic Opening must be the most Politically
loaded and choreographed event in the recent history. (Of cause I don’t know all
the details of another Opening of such as Beijing, Soul, etc —– yet still, most others seemed
to demonstrates the power of the Nation = Government and Military. (such as exactly
synchronized mass demonstration of Martial-art play, performed by the soldiers,
and the mass game of the top beauties gathered from all over the country, kind).
Instead, London Olympic Opening avoided to go this kind, while pretending
GREEN and Politically Correct. = Hence, the people appeared there got to be looks like
just a man or girl next-door, and especially from ethnic minority.
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In this Political Correctness, there was no single Hero to light-up the
Olympic-Flame, but by the group of athletes. —– And the Flame-burner, its
head was a Copper piece brought by each country. (A girl or boy walking with Flag-bearer was
carrying looks like urinal shaped metal piece = it was for this purpose 😀 )
(In certain extent, I think it was a brilliant idea ! = Forget PC blah blah, here 😀 )
—– PS: My friend found the Info’ of the Olympic Flame in this link —–
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/comment/the-flaming-dandelion/5040489.article#.UBaj-FBTs30.facebook
—– As the Info’ says, the Olympic Flame was built in 10 story mechanism, having more than 200 stems in
8.5m long = it can not be made with rotating shafts but be done only with linear air actuators (like a piston
cylinder to push-up) = still, more than 200 gas pipes, 10 pressurized air pipes crammed into small space,
and they moves, while carrying combustible gas = what a task ! —– still, I was surprised to know, it got
16 tons all together ! ? ? ? —– couldn’t be done in 4 tones size ?
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Yet Populism has to have popular figure = David Beckham, Mr. Bean and James Bond may not
have an argument from the mass audience (along side the inventor of WWW = though how many
people knew his name, and the author of Harry Potter’s ).
And draw the Queen out of her holy residents and made her jump from a chopper
(in fact a stunt-man with Queen’s costume and her mask over his face, doubled her) must be
an Extreme-left-wing Anarchist’s dream.
Still, it had made only eye-catching stories of the tabloid paper = not fool the population for whole.
= The unsold empty seats are the evidence. (May needs the same measure of Beijing Olympic to
mobilize local school kids to fill the seats to COVER-UP).
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What-so-ever the COVER-UP story of this country’s history, the fundamental structure were
never touched. = Land owing system, hence the concentration of the wealth.
= Queen as the top landlord, and its status-quo of the Class-system.
Let Tory and Labor fight each other, is the traditional [Divide and Rule] tactics
of the Empire. Top of the Government = Prime Minister is just a hired manager of the estate
= let him manage the people to keep status-quo in good order, while work hard to produce
enough revenue to run the estate.
If any left-wing dissident became a prominent figure, make him (or her) Sir
(like Bono 😀 ) and integrate into the Imperial SYSTEM.
(like the former director of Liberty, John Wadam is now a part of the establishment, and the
another member of Liberty, Shamira Chakrabarty was carrying the Olympic-flag. 😀
= Honor cost nothing still, the most powerful tool to coax the noisy dissident).
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Organizer might have thought that the approach of Politically correct Populism can give an
illusion of Democracy though, in contrary, it highlighted the deception more. = This irony is
exposed also in the history of the Industrial Revolution = “Where the industry started in this
country has gone ?” —– And the same was repeated again = the WWW was invented by
Tim Bernard-Lee though, “Where the Industry using WWW, such as Google has gone to ?”
So, it was not the display of the Glorious Briton, but more of the sawer grape of own failures.
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——- So, it was an interesting program or political farce to watch. 😀
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