The last TV Olympics?
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Back in the cold war, they fit into a master narriative of domesticating the threat of communist revolution -- rather than crapping up their countryside with plutonium we had them shooting themselves with steroids.
today a whole bunch of genertically engineering latex clad freaks who stepped right out of marvel comics are battling each other and the anti-doping authorities in a bunch of sports you usually don't care about in an inconvenient time zone.
me? i'm busy enough with my own post-human pursuits. I spent some time with a generative model of cat faces last night and realized the Google/Stanford people missed out on the cat butt detector.
Maybe the Olympics aren't that interesting to you, but I -- and, trust me, millions of other people -- find them enthralling. It's raw sport and spectacle, and a wonderful event. The best part about the Olympics, for me, is that it unites disparate sports fanatics. I'm a basketball fan, and most of my friends are either runners or swimmers, and its wonderful to be united with them under the same grand event.
For all the millions of people who get joy in the Olympics there are even more who get joy, more consistently, by following the Yankees or Sachin Tendulkar.
Relevant: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/how-th...