Translated material
Olympic default
About our enchanting and quite, in general, the predictable loss at the Olympics is written and said a lot. And about the crisis of looting, and about the coming catastrophism, and about the fact that this loss is the rehearsal of the upcoming apocalypse.
I once drove in a car with the sport-radio, and there almost crying man yells to the commentator: “ You understand, their losing, it’s like amputation! Like amputation, you understand?! I haven’t taken my leg! Now I don’t have my legs and no longer bouuuuuuuu!” And the commentator in response is not gu-gu. The commentator was silent in response.
In short, I would not want to add my five to ten kopecks to these walls. In the Olympic default, and this is what the incident should be called - there is something that has the most indirect attitude towards sports. I’m talking about sports as a metaphor of political life: sports democracy, politics as a spectacle, rejoicing stadiums, shouting either a “ puck-shabu !”, Either “ the king is unreasonable! ”. Neither the slogan " Russia, forward! ", Where without it?!
The Olympic default set up a cross on a hitherto hitherto model of sports democracy. Sports democracy, after all, what is it? This is the element of pure mobilization, mobilization as a kind of art for art. Everyone freezes in a jump, run racing and cowardly, experience shells and their own forces. The image of mobilization for the sake of mobilization is an image of a body of aunt, which overcomes kilometers on a treadmill and does not move from a place. And all this, in fact, for the sake of diets. On the country's scale, the diet was specific - hydrocarbons and nothing more. However, it is incorrect to understand this only as a luxury. Systematic absorption of black caviar is also a diet and even a form of austerity.
Sports democracy is a run of Achilles, which has chosen a method of movement that will not make it possible to catch up with the turtle, even if all the paradoxes of movement without exception are resolved. Sports democracy is a utopia of power as pure energy. Perhaps such utopia could appear not only in the regime of the raw material oligarchy (the authorities likened energy and Bertrand Russell). However, the emergence of utopian sports democracy in this regime is many times more likely.
The Olympic default is a default of raw materials metaphysics, in which it was possible to score power as a pure energy that spontaneously takes the most ergonomic form for it. The form is not a vertical even, but a drill tower .