Displacement Activity
Posted at 1:31pm on Wednesday, June 6th, 2007Until only yesterday I would have said that the Olympics were the last real example of displaced warfare. Lots of metaphorical and literal flexing of muscles in a thinly disguised version of kicking sand in the 7 stone weakling’s face.
However, yesterday we decided that it would be a good idea to start pointing missiles at each other again so the Olympics briefly returned to sideshow status and we get to have a nice diplomatic standoff, rather than all this sporting subtlety.
That said, the Olympics do still bring out the worst in countries - even towards their own citizens:
