London 2012 Olympics...

Just like the football World Cup in South Africa and the Euro 2012 (which once again confirmed my lack of faith in a "civilised" Europe), the Olympic games have become yet another farcical event, a true opiate for the modern "liberal" masses... It purports to celebrate "human spirit" or whatever, but that same spirit dies in this sanitised and tightly regulated environment of exclusion, copyrights, and cheap commercialisation. What is worse, this ideology at work conveniently slips under the overblown spectacle and media frenzy...and we stand in its awe as if someone were pointing a gun at us (or get up at 4.30 in the morning Australian Eastern time to watch the opening ceremony).