[lbo-talk] Olympics

[John Thornton]

Thomas Seay wrote:
> --- On Sat, 8/9/08, Max B. Sawicky <sawicky at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> The idea of some giant, oppressive machine staging an
>> entertainment on a grand scale on the theme of universal peace and
>> brotherhood just rubs me the wrong way.
>>     
>
> Yes, me too.  And it has more in common with 1936 than even you identify.  There is a strong streak of supremacism in the Chinese middle/upper classes.  This display was not so much an attempt to make a statement about the superiority of the socialist system (gag, if that's what you want to call the strange mixture of state dictatorship mixed with laissez-faire that exists in China), it was more a statement about "WE" as a people are superior.
>
> -Thomas

I don't watch the Olympics but I've never found the Chinese streak of 
superiority any stronger than that of Germans, Americans, or Japanese.

John Thornton