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Originally Posted by neptune
Does anybody else here think the whole ritual of the "torch relay" is arcane and idiotic?
I mean, who the hell really cares?
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Not me, in a way.
It has never been particularly significant to me that a perpetual flame burns in front of JFK's grave, but it would be consequential if, say, neo-Nazis doused it.
The ritual that seems arcane and idiotic to me is laying down arms in order to gather to compete in sports.
Fifty yard dash, you say? I'm fast...lemme just set this rocket launcher down. How 'bout over here, would it be in the way on the grassy center of the track? I won't be a moment.
What IS significant is that the goodest goodwill portion of the games is derailed by angry protests-read-that-civil-unrest.
What is also interesting that, for all that we lambaste those spiky French, it was they who served Donald Rumsfeld with war crimes papers and they who now rain on the Olympic parade.
I understand that the torch ceremony was interrupted in London, as well.