Melting

Wow divinely sweet is this? The Vancouver Olympics, the last mighty bellow of our worn-out civilization and a fraud of global proportions is melting. Melting. You may have been reading that there has been no snow at skiing venues for weeks. Well now it's a crisis (that's right, another one).

In typical civilized fashion instead of accepting that there are limits to what we can and cannot do and that we are ultimately controlled by our ecosystems, the organizers are going to start trucking in the snow. Another conquest but at what cost? Kiss your precious budget goodbye VANOC. Not only trucks, but snow cats and even helicopters will seek out and deliver snow to Olympic sites. Imagine it, a relatively green forest, then smack in the middle, a piece of Canadian winter for all the gawking tourists. They're so disconnected from the real world that they'll likely assume this is normal.

It's really a facade that they are building. Made of straw and wood with a little snow on top. A thin cover to all our myths. Hollow and short-lived, like most of civilization's creations.

Not once have I heard mention of climate change. It's actually ironic because the snow is melting around the world because of our lavish lifestyles and the Olympics are the epitome of this destructive pattern. Imagine all those thousands of "fans" coming from all corners of the world to watch athletes and spend spend spend on everything and anything. All those greenhouse gases no one wants to talk about; oh yeah, we'll just buy some carbon offsets. Nationalism combined with overconsumption and a little international travel make for a deadly combination and at the very least, less snow on mountains.

Though I can't help realizing that Mother Nature is so generous with her errant children that she'll probably send snow just in time for the games. When we deserve to be beaten severely for our childish behaviour we'll once again be passed a candy and told to "run along".