Congratulations to the people of Rio de Janeiro and Brazil for their right to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. It's their problem now, and good riddance, so Tokyo can heave a sigh for having dodged a bullet. Government here has enough on its plate already — trying to control its foreign residents, deciding which dams to build or not to build, prosecuting celebrities for drug possession, whitewashing history textbooks, etc.
Organized, competitive team sports being what they are make the Olympics a mania-inducing pathology. So there is an element of mental illness involved in them — participating in them, soliciting them, advocating them. They are not the peak of athletic achievement. That is what World Championship tournaments are for. They are not a celebration of the brotherhood of man. That is what universal religion is for. They are not a peaceful gathering of ordinary people so much as a hostile congregation of tribal warriors.
The Olympics are more than anything a political and capitalist orgy, pushing the depravity of organized team sports as a kind of opiate of the masses. I reject organized, competitive team sports because they are an opiate and an inappropriate model of human relationships and interaction. On the one hand they dull our senses, and on the other hand they lead us in a wrong direction. The former paves the way for the latter.