Games with fire

Whatever the child amuses himself with... The significant seriousness with which adults and, at first glance, intelligent people treat the ritual of the Olympic torch relay, was at first touching. Wow, how much attention, effort, feelings and resources were devoted to the game! Ah, one torch has gone out! Oh, the guard set it on fire with his lighter! Is this fire now authentic or inauthentic? Greek or not Greek? If the lighter was Greek, then the fire is authentic. Or maybe fly to Greece again? Can't find a light?

There is Putin, and bikers, and traffic closures in Moscow and endless discussions with serious expressions on their faces. Rodnina, disgraced by her racist outburst, talks about the “magical and mystical” meaning of fire. The Chief State Sanitary Doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, and the Administrator of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Kozhin, are also running with passion. And the Russian Orthodox Church is seriously gloating: the torch went out because the fire in it was of pagan origin. Mass psychosis on a sports-ritual theme!

It’s really true: whoever God wants to punish, he deprives him of his reason. Or makes you a sports fan.