I am an Olympics junkie, and am also watching the Olympics with comparable mixed feelings. And wow, those opening ceremonies. So many questions and thoughts.
I wonder what message is supposed to be sent by the fact that all the music played while the athletes were walking in were by extremely familiar classical pieces by European composers -- that started repeating about two-thirds of the way through, as if the organizers couldn't even be arsed to pull out a sufficient number of works to cover the entire time.
And that the Olympic cauldron...isn't. It's a torch, only slightly larger than the pass-the-flame torch, surrounded by a giant snowflake.
And having one of the people to do the final lighting be a Uyghur woman seems to smack more of tokenism than any meaningful statement about rights or change.
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Date: 2022-02-07 04:10 pm (UTC)I wonder what message is supposed to be sent by the fact that all the music played while the athletes were walking in were by extremely familiar classical pieces by European composers -- that started repeating about two-thirds of the way through, as if the organizers couldn't even be arsed to pull out a sufficient number of works to cover the entire time.
And that the Olympic cauldron...isn't. It's a torch, only slightly larger than the pass-the-flame torch, surrounded by a giant snowflake.
And having one of the people to do the final lighting be a Uyghur woman seems to smack more of tokenism than any meaningful statement about rights or change.