What The Rest Of The World Saw In The Olympics Opening Ceremony
Since so many people are weighing in on the Olympics opening show, I thought I might put my own two cents in. And should you ask why I would waste my time on such a relatively unimportant issue when there are so many more pressing matters we should paying attention to, that is my point. Why did the French choose to present an opening ceremony reveling in licentiousness and debauchery when they had the opportunity to address more relevant issues? It is because French culture — or more particularly the culture of their ruling class — is empty of any other values.
Some of my more educated friends on social media have been sharing facts about what the French Olympic opening was all about, that it was not a mockery of The Last Supper we were seeing but a bacchanalian feast. And Bacchus was the Greek god for which such festivals were named, and the Olympics began in Greece, so there’s your connection. Although one wonders why, of all gods, the god of drunken revelry would be a suitable subject for an Olympic celebration. Why a god who represents everything Olympic athletes must forego to attain greatness should be the focal point of a competition amongst the world’s greatest athletes. And how exactly does that tie into the spirit of the games, a spirit that epitomizes the striving to do one’s best with an emphasis on “friendship, solidarity…