The ethnic warfare and collapse of Yugoslavia after those games, along with the current political unrest in Ukraine and other parts of the world, highlight the limitations of the Olympic movement in the real world. Hopefully, the people of Sochi, if not the facilities, will fare better than those in Sarajevo.
Kind of beautiful in a way. I find the way the natural world takes over and deconstructs man's creations comforting. Like the Earth can absorb whatever humans try to do to destroy her.
ReplyDeleteKinda deep for a Sunday morning, I know. Now back to Candy Crush!
Wasn't that one of the less threatening and terrifying threads of The Road? That and don't look in the crawl space?
ReplyDeleteActually, cellar, wasn't it?
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