United States right-wing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene broke the defense of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, especially parodying the Last Supper, which she considered a holy Jesus. She called for a boycott of the Paris Olympics, angrily calling it "the Olympics of Satan the Devil".
Compared with United States, China's public opinion field is still much more relaxed, at least no one has reached such a point.
Playboy feels that many people are overinterpreting the Olympics. In the United States, sports are regarded as a type of entertainment industry, and I didn't understand it at first, but after thinking about it, I think it makes a lot of sense. If the Olympics were classified as entertainment, many of the issues would be much simpler. There is no need to make the Olympics so sacred, in addition, especially in the entertainment and sports industries, many people eat youth, there are many strong men and women, and they rely on their bodies. Therefore, it makes sense that many famous sports stars are combined with movie stars in the entertainment industry, or make all kinds of scandals.
The interpretation of heterogeneous cultures is often absurd
The playboy is naturally very familiar with Chinese culture, and he has a good feeling for Anglo-Saxon culture after many years of overseas wandering, but for French culture, because of the relationship between language and humanistic quality, and the lack of life experience, it always seems to be very separated, and the grasp of details is not so accurate. In fact, this problem is the same for most people in the non-French-speaking cultural circle.
United States is actually a conservative country, which is not the same as the popular impression. It's not surprising that its right flank is broken. But I know that even the United Kingdom have a slight opinion about European culture, I once went to the home of an old United Kingdom couple, and the humanities are excellent, but when it comes to France, their first instinct is that "all the world's troubles come from that place". At that time, I was surprised, and then the old couple gave a lot of examples, such as the passion that came from the France Revolution, the chaos that followed, and then the passion that created the world and the chaos that followed; This is true in contrast to the silent "glorious revolution" of United Kingdom.
Only the France cut off their queen's head and put it in the opening ceremony to promote it, and in contrast, the United Kingdom's royal family is still alive and well, with scandals and scandals.
Looking up and down at heterogeneous cultures
For the vast majority of people, the definition of culture is preconceived, and it is either looking up or looking down, and it is rare to see anyone look at it with a normal mind.
For example, for the general public, thinking of Hermes and LV is a high-end luxury and a work of art. But is that really the case? No matter how delicate it is, isn't it just a bag? They are nothing more than a cultural game, symbolizing capitalist consumer materialism. Of course, the playboy thinks so in his heart, and he will never say this on his lips, which is absolutely devastating to the "pickle girl". Ordinary ladies and beautiful young ladies don't want to listen to your principles at all, so why bother to be bored? Why don't you think differently and see it as a "pickle girl artifact"?
When the mind is opened, the attitude towards heterogeneous culture has a normal heart. The same is true for a heterogeneous culture like France, not forgetting the original intention, looking at it with a naïve childlike mentality, with a game mentality, which can be immersed in it, and can be easily withdrawn and maintain a relationship that is as if it were separated.
The same is true for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, where many people's attitudes are defined as advanced at the beginning, and then interpreted preconceived interpretations based on that. There's no need for that. Many France actually say "What the hell is this?" to many scenes. To be honest, from an aesthetic point of view, it is neither high-class nor beautiful.
The "sense of relaxation" at the Asian Games in Hangzhou and the Paris Olympics
The source of relaxation is a kind of cultural self-confidence, which is a confirmation of one's own abilities. Relaxation does not need to prove itself through some external form, nor does it need the approval of others.
Because of the suffering of the past century, China has burdened many things with too many undeserved factors. For example, sports. Just like the spirit of women's volleyball, in that era, it was indeed a kind of pride of the Chinese; And at the time of the Beijing Olympics, there was a lot of stuff that needed to be introduced and expressed to the world, and this was done, and for most Westerners, they still thought that the opening ceremony in Beijing was the best. These are all things that China has been weak for a long time, and we need a sports project and a major event to lift up the people's sentiments and prove ourselves to the world. Frankly, many East Asian countries are the same, such as Japan, such as Korea.
However, time has passed, and China no longer needs to prove itself through a perfect tournament. Therefore, the playboy especially likes the relaxation shown by the Hangzhou Asian Games, which is not like an encyclopedia, to be comprehensive, but has a full national self-confidence. And France showed this cultural self-confidence in the opening ceremony of this Olympic Games.
I believe that the opening ceremonies in China will become more and more relaxed in the future, and the more relaxed, the more advanced they will be, the more original, and the more cultural they will be.
This sense of relaxation stems from the fact that it is often found only in the original home country of culture. For example, the tea ceremony in Japan is to remain steadfast about the tea ceremony of the Song Dynasty, to the point of no reason. And the Russian aristocracy was often more obsessed with France court etiquette than France France people. And many of the cultural ideas we see now, films, sculptures, paintings, architecture, etc., are truly revolutionary, often originating from United Kingdom and France.
This sense of relaxation is also often hugely destructive, as in the case of postmodernism, whose historiographical outlook is constantly subverting their own culture and their own history. However, as the boss of the empire, when the national power is strong, the damage of this postmodernist historiography is often not great. Exporting to its colonial powers often has earth-shaking negative effects and causes a lot of trouble. For example, if China's culture is really strong to a certain point, archaeology will no longer have political connotations as it does now, and if you say that Chinese civilization is 5,000 years or 3,000 years or 3,500 years at a discount, it will not make any waves. And during the War of Resistance Against Japan, this was definitely an issue of the death of the country and the species.
Variations of the Olympics
What is the sanctity of the Olympics now? Isn't the Russian-Ukrainian war fought the same way? Isn't the Israeli-Palestinian conflict still happening? The commercialization of the Olympics has been out of control, and has even dominated the development of the entire sports industry, so I am very much in favor of reducing the sports industry to the entertainment industry.
As for some projects, they really should be scrapped. When you see the bodies of athletes, you know how far they have been destroyed by the sports industry, all high-tech, drugs and ruthless work.
The name "athlete" should also be abolished, and there is a socialist ideology in it, such as breeder, cook, announcer, commander,...... Should we change the name to "sports star", "sports entertainer"?
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in France, persimmons pick up soft pinch
Finally, I have to criticize the creator of the Olympic Games in France, which is actually very cunning. In order to awaken the audience and create a visual revolution, artists in the Impressionist era often had to slap ordinary audiences in the face. And in our postmodernist artists, we ordinary viewers are often too much, slapping us in the face for the sake of slapping us.
And many times slapping is also risky, so who to slap and when? It's all skillful. In short, artists are refined egoists, and this is very fine. They dare to laugh at the Last Supper because Christianity has become completely secular and tolerant. Do they dare to laugh at other religions? Think of the "Charlie Magazine case."
What's more, political correctness is fashionable these days. The opening ceremony is the safest in terms of political genealogy. If the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in France can promote "conservatism" and satirize the "politically correct white left", this makes me admire. This is called anti-"anti-orgasm". And what he is doing now just proves that persimmons pick up soft pinching, and they are not heroes.