WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE PARIS - news journal UPDATE - (en) Frace, Mond Libertaire: The idiots of Olympics are biting! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Here we are assigned to eat more than reason! Oh yes, we eat their

Olympic games. Morning, noon, night! Like a medical treatment! A horse
treatment to put us to sleep, and also to make us take money out of our
pockets! Well if we still have money, given how we were shaved, it's not
likely, and what's more do we want to blow money on our real
stupidities? Yes, but no, big rich people full of self-importance, they
can take money out, and pay for all the luxury that Paris offers. This
luxury that I don't like. ---- It's well put together ---- Yes very well
put together, the media, the communications companies, the government,
the advertising, the stars, are omnipresent, as if nothing else was
happening except the games! It must be said that there is a big pile of
money to be made. The Olympics are about money? A bit much anyway. Just
the crap we call derivative products in the colors of the games, it
sells, then it gets thrown away once it's over.

Meanwhile, the real world continues to turn, and it's not turning right
for a lot of people. Poverty, war, ecological drama, genocide.

The Olympics are good, they allow us to divert attention, to relegate
protest to the rank of those who prevent us from having fun in circles.
You suffer from social injustice, war, machismo, you are asked to make
yourselves small and especially to shut up.

Security Security

Full security, we are constantly observed in public spaces, and there is
more, privatized areas of the public domain for the games, you need a QR
code to move around, supposedly for public safety. It's temporary. But I
know only too well the temporary that becomes permanent. Hey, I lost the
Parisian market down the street from my house, for security reasons,
strange in my neighborhood nothing happens and nothing will happen
during the entire duration of the games. This is a fine example of an
excess of authority. I am asked to keep quiet.

The political class does not contest anything

In a beautiful general movement, everyone is silent. Taking the entire
political spectrum, the most absolute radio silence. Of course it surfs
a little on the intellectually shallow controversies. None and no one
calls for protest. For demonstrations. Demonstrations, ah no, it is
forbidden in Paris. The Olympic Games, supposed to be a humanist moment,
deprive us of demonstrations, what a paradox, right?

Nothing is going well

I could point out so many more breaches of the principles of freedom,
human dignity, social dignity, which are legion during these games, a
very long list, stuffing and indigestible.

For me, nothing is right, everything I hate is present in these games.
Money, king, nationalism, arrangement between governments, false
pretenses, machismo, ableism (Paralympic games on staggered dates),
bling bling of stars. Collusion of the media with capitalism and
partisan politics.

And then what, after these games will our lives have changed, at least
for most of us? Obviously not. We will always be confronted with the
same domination, injustice, repression.

Sport yes

I am for sport, for pleasure and not for competitive spirit, this
competition that instills domination. Sport as leisure, alone or in a
group. The pleasure of showing what we can do thanks to sport, sharing
our abilities without capitalism rotting it with its money. Sport or
everyone in their place, a way to regroup despite their differences and
not on one side those who are like this and the others like that.
Libertarian sport and why not?

Eleftheria
Paris Commune Group.

https://monde-libertaire.fr/?articlen=7968
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