Comments on: Drugged-Out Mutant Olympics?

By: Patrice Ayme

Patrice Ayme — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:58:08 +0000

Dear Eugen: Totally excellent! I had a lot of “fun” as my friend the American would say, watching it…seems the movie may have been part Israeli, no? israel is going to need all this wizardry if Netanayuh and Barak insist with on their hare brained, pathetic attack on Iran… Anyway, we are already there. The degree of automation in the Rafale and the Eurofighter is similar, to what is shown in the movie. At very very low altitude, in the transonic regime, the Rafale is operated on automatic (too dangerous to make sharp turns an aircraft body length above the sea). The Eurofighter responds to voice commands, the planes take command when they see their pilots are blacking out, and do so according to several modes they chose from (the Rafale does 11 gs, with full suits), etc…
During the Libyan war, Rafale pilots could plan a strike, engage 6 ground objectives simultaneously, while the plane executed the attack, and monitored all threats, etc…
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By: EugenR

EugenR — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:20:52 +0000

If you are speaking about mutant watch this short movie.

http://vimeo.com/46304267

How many years we have until it will be real?

By: Patrice Ayme

Patrice Ayme — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:42:59 +0000

Dear OGP: I did not know about the dropping of sport subsidy by the Ivy League in the 1950s.

Rich sports are sports than one practices oneself. Poor sports are sports watched on TV. Thus spoke Poopythustra.

It’s important to maintain the priniciple of a firewall between the Ivory Tower and society. Massive college sports violate it enormously. They have more votes as long as things stay mild in appearance. When we have a massive problem such as generals from some dictatorship armed with nukes on a rampage, or the world ecological crisis in full, then the idea that muscle can replace brains will have to go to the trap.

Considering what is going on in the USSR, Maoistan, and Cameronistan, let alone Koreanistan, or the Arctic, this may be sooner rather than later… (More of what I mean in the next essay.)
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By: Old Geezer

Old Geezer — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:54:07 +0000

The IVY League dropped sports scholarships in the mid- 50s. The result was embarrassingly poor football.

But so what?

However, there are those who persist that there is more to a college education than just mental work.

They have more votes.

By: Patrice Ayme

Patrice Ayme — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:08:09 +0000

Dear Pieceofcake: I meant “cheaper”, not hipper, that was a typo… I am not trying to throw the baby with the bath. Quite the opposite, I called explicitly to have more people to work around the games, and to have two type of games.
It’s clear that Hitler’s racist ideology suffered a blow when Owens became the star of the games. It’s clear that many who are racist, anti-black, today, can only grudginly recognize Usain Bolt, and his colleague’s supremacy.
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By: pieceofcake

pieceofcake — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:59:32 +0000

‘and Adolf made himself and his ideology only heaper by refusing to honor Owens’ – That’s the point! – that ‘Sports’ -(with all its imperfections) – does so much ‘good’ for the people -(and not only reducing their weight – if they take up rowing and running too) – and if you only think about the fact that probably thousands of Americans have learned at these Olympics that ‘Jamaica’ is not only a subway station close to JFK but a whole country it turnes you into the happiest of all babies an earth!

By: Patrice Ayme

Patrice Ayme — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:17:52 +0000

Ought to be for amateurs, but they dropped that ball long ago, because in the USA potential much greater sport ability means big money… BTW, that, per se, is a philosophical mistake. Universities ought to give mental scholarship, not sport fellowships. The latter don’t exist, say, in France. Nor should they. To confuse mental and physical performance is abysmal, in the sense that’s what abyssal creatures do.
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By: Patrice Ayme

Patrice Ayme — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:14:56 +0000

Dear Pieceofcake: I agree with what you say, that’s the I-am-a-happy-baby approach, all fun and games, BUT philosophy is about party pooping:

1) it’s unfair for nations such as Senegal, which don’t know how to do the drug thing right. The results show that this is MOST nations

2) and it’s not just unfair, it’s teaching the wrong example. It’s teaching the higher authorities is such countries that the games out there, all the games, are rigged. So they may as well rig it for themselves, in their old special way, the old fashion way, plain old corruption, which is at its best when cooperating with the world global plutocracy. This is why broken countries such as italy and the UK spend billion of a completely defective, useless plane such as the F35, billions they should send to their own economy instead of a giant corporation such as Lockeed Martin (headed not by an engineer, but by an accountant ex from Ernst & Young).

Europeans have a strong committed sport tradition, they are less obese than USA citizens, much richer than the chinese, so the euro sport traditions are deep. don’t forget, as I said, that it is the French who reintroduced the Olympic games, and invented the Winter ones… And I am all for these international meets. Hitler’s racist conceptology suffered in 1936 in berlin when he saw the black Owens run faster than his Aryan masters of the universe… And Adolf made himself and his ideology only cheaper by refusing to honor Owens.

So I’m not advocating to cancel the Games, no, just the opposite. To make them more honest, by embracing reality. Embrace enhancement, embrace the fact most people are handicapped, look at it squarely, ponder what it means. That’s what Nature advocated (sort of). Hey, maybe there are intellectual mutants, too…
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By: Old Geezer

Old Geezer — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:50:01 +0000

I would watch cricket or baseball. I just think that the Olympics is for AMATEURS, not pros.

By: pieceofcake

pieceofcake — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:20:01 +0000

I didn’t mind the ‘highly critical look at the Olympics] but I liked it even better just to watch ‘IT’ –
All these dudes and gals swimming, running, rowing and jumping – just for my pleasure – how cool is that?- And if everybody is ‘doped’ nowadays -(without getting caught anymore) – isn’t that ‘fair’ too -(in a ‘thinking better kind of way’?) – and still the Europeans got a lot more medals than the US and China combined!