You Should Have Known Better Than to Watch the Olympics Ceremony

The definition of insanity is continuing to participate.

Something controversial happened in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.

Did you know that? Did you watch? I did not. The only reason I know about what happened is because I have heard others talking about it.

Let us say that you are among whatever remaining fraction of people who hadn’t heard that something happened until you read the sentence above.

WAIT!

Before you go looking to see what the controversy was, try taking a guess…

Let’s see, it’s an opening ceremony. That means art direction. That means art directors.

The art directors are working at the behest of an entity—the International Olympic Committee—that has been moving leftwards for decades.

And the left have been moving, largely en masse, to increasingly weird places.

So now guess what sort of opening ceremony will come out of all of this. What sorts of things do you imagine it might include?

Weird sex stuff?
Check.

Some pagan references or Satanic imagery?
Yep.

Lots of trans, non-binary, autogynephilia, etc.?
‘Diversity is our strength.’

Imagery that manifests obvious hostility to Christianity (but not Islam, naturally)?
Mais bien sûr.

Some outright communism for good measure?
You betcha.

In other words, you could have predicted all of this.

Since it was in France, you might also have predicted the spectacle of Marie Antoinette’s severed head singing a song.

Side note: Marie Antoinette was a very decent person; she never said, “Let them eat cake”; and unlike the Germans, the French have never confronted their disgusting history. Instead, they continue to propagate self-serving lies about the abattoir that was their glorious Révolution française.

These people cannot help themselves.

The International Olympic Committee cannot help themselves. Art Director Thomas Jolly cannot help himself. You know this.

So why did you watch?

Did you expect something different? Did you go into it thinking, “How bad could it be?”Did you not expect anything weird at all?

You should have.

At this point, weird should be the default assumption. Is it being produced by anything mainstream, post 2015? Then assume it will be crazy, woke garbage.

Assume it will be anti-male or anti-white or anti-“right” or whatever. If it is a TV show, assume it has substituted agenda and “diversity” for plot.

If it’s the news, assume it is lying to you. If it’s academia, assume they are rewriting history and still pushing Marx.

If it’s a musician with talent starting to come into her own with songs people like, assume she’s going to pivot to preachy lefty lyrics in 5…4…3…2…

Instead of being “on guard” for such things…maybe just stop watching. Stop listening.

Stop participating.

I am not scolding you. I get it. Opting out of one’s own national culture is hard. I have done it to some degree, but I still have a long ways to go.

But I have reached the point where I know a few things…

1. This is how it is now.

2. The architects of all of this are not going to change.

3. Our ongoing participation is not going to cause them to change.

You are not going to rescue mainstream culture. Mainstream culture is broken.

You cannot turn things around through conventional means—by lining up in opposing trenches, WWI-style, and fighting a culture war. That will do nothing but continue the war—a war that you will lose as your trench gets re-dug and pushed back, year after year, decade after decade.

The only way now is to opt out. Get away.

Build something new. Something better. Or just get away and live in peace.

But watching mainstream culture, getting enraged—and then doing the same thing the next day, and the day after—is the definition of insanity.