Oh the Drama...

Were the Olympics ever as good or as important as people seem to remember them being? I mean, yeah, at one point the games were dominated on one of the only three networks available, with the over-arching theme of Superman (USA! USA!) vs. Ivan - Raper of Children and Freedom (USSR), so maybe it made for compelling television. But in this day and age, with the media fragmented the way it is, cynicism running rampant and the USA water boarding people who smell of hummus, it's difficult for me to be excited about anything, let alone something like the olympics or its torch.

But there's been protests pretty much anywhere the things been (Google News - Olympic Torch Protest). People are PISSED. And not in the angsty "i'm going to blog about this SO HARD" kind of way. But in the "Let's bum rush the torch and extinguish it" kind of way. I guess the whole China/Tibet has peoples panties in a bunch. But lets talk about some stuff.

Right now people seem to be pretty quick to dismiss any respect for the torch because it was a ceremony started by the Nazi's. For real. So NOW, boldly, seventy odd years later, now we can disrespect it. You realize of course that that argument is stupid on it's face. And that anyone accepts that as anything other than a way to justify their own anger or resentment or fear is blind. Or delusional.

Also, they feel that attacking the Olympic torch is an acceptable way to protest. I liked you guys better when you just did Beastie Boys concerts. Extinguishing the torch has the same impact as the naked PETA people in cages pretending to be animals. In that I shrug my shoulders because it makes you look foolish.

We're not in THAT society anymore. Protest marches and speeches and sabotaging a phallic BIC lighter, won't impacting jack or shit. This is the DIGITAL age. We get our information in fragmented nuggets. If you have something to say, don't bum rush a flame and risk jail time, take it to fucking YouTube, like a normal person. You whack-jobs.