Douglas Rushkoff on 23 Sep 2000 14:42:55 -0000 |
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Re: <nettime> Chinese Torture, Olympic Style |
Fascinated analysis you've forwarded, Josh -- It makes me remember how we used to watch the Olympics back in the 60's. The whole idea of the contests was to pit two systems of government against each other: Russia vs. US, or East meets West. It was if, as a nation, we were trying to prove that 'love of sport' in a free society would produce better athletes than the sort of forced athleticism imposed by a regime. Peggy Flemming and Mark Spitz personified the American Amateur against the commie machine. But, back then, the Cold War made for good TV. ---------- >From: Joshua Goldberg <josh@goldbergs.com> >To: nettime <NETTIME-L@bbs.thing.net> >Subject: <nettime> Chinese Torture, Olympic Style >Date: Fri, Sep 22, 2000, 12:10 AM > > Reprinted from http://www.thetruthasiseeit.com. > > Contact: editor@thetruthasiseeit.com > > > Chinese Torture, Olympic Style > By A. Freudenheim # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net