The Word B

does anyone else find it odd, that most of the news telecasts these last 10 days have focused entirely on the olympics? the sports is great, and highlighting on the achievements of the athletes is great too, but there is other things happening in this world that need addressing. these problems are not going to go away by simply ignoring them. people are still starving in africa, people are still dying in iraq and afghanistan, people are still homeless and eating out of garbage cans in america, children are still locked up in prison in australia, yet how wonderful is it to discover china won a gold medal in ping pong. table tennis, excuse me. the olympic games to me seem like one big corporate marketing campaign, and a global smoke screen to turn the attention of the world away from the criminal atrocities that are continuing by the nation-state.
wasn't the original greek olympic games a time of peace, where all fighting and war was called to a halt during the time of competition? at least that was the story promoted in my history book in school. regardless it is still a good idea to stop fighting and to be able to re-evaluate what you are really fighting about. gold medals or oil?
don't get me wrong, i love sport. i love to compete and to watch sporting events, but to use it as a tool to create a global hoax and cover up for the sake of advertising and money is a very twisted and downright evil exercise. does anyone else see this point?
for me, the only team that holds any true interest during these olympic games is the soccer team from iraq. these few individuals are defying the odds. it is great. if anyone is deserving to win, it should be them. i for one, hope they do.