Olympic Closing Ceremonies–Those Chinese Sure Do Put On A Good Show
August 24, 2008 / 9:21 pm • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier
Nothing like a zillion Chinamen used to create a huge spectacle. Why do I feel dirty watching these ceremonies both opening and closing? Maybe it’s the fact that while there is Chinese pride, there is no Chinese choice. They look civilized. They put on a good show.
They put on a good show.
Communists are impressive. Marshaling humans and using them like tinker toys, building blocks to make a piece of artwork, only to be sent away tomorrow, back to whatever lot they have in life. It is likely not a good one.
I get the sense that the vast resource the Chinese have that they want us, the West, to know they have is people. Millions and millions of people that can be used any way “the people” deem necessary. The people being the Dear Leader. This knowledge is meant to instill fear; they say respect. But it’s really fear.
And watching this, watching the little people crawl like ants, dehumanized in their vast numbers, used to create a flame, up the pyre in the middle of the stadium, I get the message China is sending. It is loud and clear: we are many, you are few. Beware.
They sure do put on a good show.
Architectural show.
Religious oppression.
Only 1.2 million Tibetans dead at Chinese hands.
Oppression of their own people.
Gendercide–infant girls killed, aborted, or put in orphanages in China. 90 million men can’t find a woman and the numbers will get worse.
This is China.
2 Responses to “Olympic Closing Ceremonies–Those Chinese Sure Do Put On A Good Show”
August 25 2008 / 1:52 pm
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Chinese have put on a good public show since the Chin Dynasty unified the Warring Kingdoms and set the precedent for a totally centralized and regulated civilization named after it — China, land of the Chin.
During the Olympics, History Channel (and other documentary channels) ran a lot of documentaries on Chinese History. The re-enacted Mass Spectacles of synchronized prostration and kowtow before the new Emperor seemed especially familiar.