The Olympics
Friday, October 31st, 2003I’m an Aussi so I am biased. The reconcilliation thing with the opening
ceremony (the black/white thing) was a master stroke that will change our
culture. There has been a lot of aggressive nonsense going on that just
causes people to entrench in their racial positions, but this ceremony
achieved reconcilliation without kitch or patronage or cowtowing to
political correctness. So I thought it was marvellous. I’d love to hear
what you guys think.
It is interesting for the whole Olympics to have gone so well because we are
a culture that denigrates itself, and we were sure we would mess it up - but
in the final analysis I think we put the rest of the world on notice.
Coming 4th in the medal count is nothing short of miraculous considering our
population size.
So we are all rather proud of ourselves at the moment.
Christine