07-22-2016, 02:31 PM
(07-18-2016, 03:57 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The most noteworthy thing about the Olympics is that Brazil has polluted the harbor where the water sports will take place and refuses to clean it up. They refuse to shut down their off-shore oil industry (as does the USA), contributing to global warming and thus not to global peace and sustainability.
The Olympic Committee could have picked Chicago, a city which already has excellent sports venues -- arguably the best sports venues in a city that hasn't had the Olympic games in a century. Water sports? Chicago has one of the greatest lakes.
Maybe it didn't want a President running for a Third Term using the Olympics as a scene for establishing dictatorial power.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.