Olympia

My paper states that the olympic movement and its games should stop pretending that they play a role in the mutual understanding of, and brotherhood between nations. After all, they had enough common sense to stop pretending that they were about pure competition between devoted and focused amateur sportspeople. The games should focus on the competition between athletes and between their sponsors. In that way, turmoil about political issues could be avoided.

The paper writes that it is utterly hypocritical to force athletes into the vanguard of the political action for civil and human rights in China while commercial and state missions keep falling over each other, desperately trying to do business with the same China.

I fully agree. The hypocrites who should take action - if any action needs to be taken at all - are not the athletes but governments and businesses. And a point on the side : the Dalaï Lama is a very remarkable and noble person, but Tibet never has been a democracy : it was a dictatorial theocracy. Let's not forget that. And what about human rights and democracy in most of the Middle East, in Africa, in Myanmar and in so many other regions and countries of the world ?

But then this one sided approach to the problem is quite similar to the approach of another economic topic : whenever there is a doubt about falling growth rates or fear about rising inflation, the focus automatically is on the workers, as if the other other stakeholders i.e. business leaders and government, had nothing to do with it.

Another law of yours truly : when a noble political principle collides with greed, greed will always prevail.

Greed of corporations and business tycoons is all right, but as for you workers : just shut up !