my miracles are not on ice
Aug. 23rd, 2008 01:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pauraque_bkI've never liked the Olympics. When I watched them I found wondering if people would succeed too anxiety-inducing, and watching people lose too depressing. Then when I quit TV (more and more I think of it like quitting a horrible drug), I realized I was just being crammed with sentiments about sports I didn't know anything about, played by people I had never heard of and would soon forget.
Around here there's a lot of commotion about boycotting the Olympics due to China's human rights violations. Rather like the "free Tibet" bumper stickers that are extremely common here, and the customers who ask me where a toy is manufactured, it often makes me wonder why they have picked that particular cause, and whether they really know anything about it, or are simply parroting the popular soundbites of the moment.
A long time ago I saw the Tony Kushner play Homebody/Kabul, and the only thing about it that I really remember is the Homebody's line: "I love the world." The audience laughs uncomfortably at the ignorance of that -- fixing on shiny little shallow pieces and thinking it counts as knowledge, that breadth without depth. Probably recognize it in themselves.
Around here there's a lot of commotion about boycotting the Olympics due to China's human rights violations. Rather like the "free Tibet" bumper stickers that are extremely common here, and the customers who ask me where a toy is manufactured, it often makes me wonder why they have picked that particular cause, and whether they really know anything about it, or are simply parroting the popular soundbites of the moment.
A long time ago I saw the Tony Kushner play Homebody/Kabul, and the only thing about it that I really remember is the Homebody's line: "I love the world." The audience laughs uncomfortably at the ignorance of that -- fixing on shiny little shallow pieces and thinking it counts as knowledge, that breadth without depth. Probably recognize it in themselves.
