I live in London, I hate the Olympics.
The park is encircled in a ring of steel, SAM batteries on residential rooftops, electrified fences, more soldiers than are serving in Afghanistan currently, private security, a warship in the Thames.
The Olympics stands for everything paranoid, reactionary, capitalist to me.
The 'Olympic Spirit' is a media hype, posited by 'impartial' journalists and sycophantic hangers-on, preaching nationalism and other such divisive false-consciousnesses. Attacks on the working classes are at a record high. All I hear is how many god damn medals team GB won, and how much wealth that no-one I know is ever going to see, is or isn't being generated by the influx of tourists to London, while people pay out their arses for tickets to a venue where they are strip-searched for illegal items such as bottles of water, for the pleasure of entering a totally sterile corporate wasteland-park and enjoying the non-existant 'community' atmosphere.
The Olympics are supposedly going to 'Inspre a Generation', but if they are, then it won't be my generation, because I have seen my generation rise up in riot and protest for the past 2 years, we couldn't care less about the Olympics, but the more we shout, the less we are heard.
All this at a time when Capitalism is cannibalising it's own support mechanisms, the things that keep people out of poverty, it's a perverse joke.
Sorry to be a downer but I had to get this off my chest somewhere.
