Sitting here watching the opening ceremonies of the winter Olympics. What a spectacular pageant. But as I watch it I can't help but think of all the homeless and hungry could be fed and housed with the money from these events. Don't take this the wrong way... I love the Olympics.. I admire the athletes and the work ethics that it takes to achieve the levels at which they perform. I just wonder about the lifetime of sponsor money that is spent training and preparing these athletes for these events. I guess one can't complain too much in these days of multi million dollar football and baseball contracts... Millions of dollars spent on making today's movies.. and the astronomical amounts of money taken in on these movies. I guess the world is just beyond the reach of my understanding at times. We can rebuild entire cities to host these games.. Pay a running back more money than many third world countries run their country's on and pay ten dollars for a dollars worth of movie popcorn yet we have people living under bridges and eating garbage every day to survive. Sad.. Now I realize that a lot of these people chose this life of drug abuse, filth, and hunger for whatever reasons and most couldn't change regardless of the amount of help offered. I guess the world is what it is and I should accept that fact...but sometimes when I hear of these large salaries or watch one of these gala events.. these thoughts just creep into my mind. I wish Norton sold a firewall for my mind.
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I agree; it is amazing how money can be found for those things - and their opposites: soldiers instead of athletes; weapons instead of sports gear; war instead of pageantry. A Norton filter for the mind is probably in development to reign in pesky thinkers like us :)
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