Leave it to France to theatrically parade the West's majority-defying rottenness — the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony

28 July 2024

National self-destruction is an interesting phenomenon

It represents an addiction to feeding malignantly metastatic internal tumors.

Witness France's perverse Olympics opening ceremony

The French vignettes were frequently capped by performances from outliers to the general population's sexual interest curve. The arguably most societally offensive of these took a gender-'deviancy' shot at Christianity's Last Supper.

Of that intentionally twisted perspective, X's Catturd wrote that:

People trained every day for years to make it to the Olympics — just to have it ruined by a group of narcissistic egomaniac, satanic demons who wanted this to be all about themselves.

Similarly critical was . . .

French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who observed — in a Google English translation of his original French:

I did not like the mockery of the Christian Last Supper, the last meal of Christ and his disciples, the founder of Sunday worship. I do not of course enter into the criticism of "blasphemy".

This does not concern everyone. But I ask: what is the point of risking hurting believers? Even when one is anticlerical!

We were speaking to the world that evening.

Among the billion Christians in the world, how many brave and honest people to whom faith gives help to live and know how to participate in the life of all, without bothering anyone?

That last was a good question

Apparently one that France had no answer for.

It reportedly removed video of the Last Supper parody from public access.

Too late, of course, to rescue France from the offense it had created for no arguably uplifting reason:

The Paris 2024 organisers have apologised to Catholics and other Christian groups angered after a parody of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous 'The Last Supper' painting during the Olympics opening ceremony.

A kitsch tableau parodied the iconic painting, recreating the biblical scene of Jesus Christ and his apostles sharing a last meal before crucifixion.

The sketch featured drag queens, a transgender model, naked singer made up as the Greek god of wine Dionysus and a child.

The scene drew dismay from the Catholic Church, with the organisers explaining that the decision was motivated by a desire to achieve “community tolerance”.

But Italy's deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini branded the scene insulting and “sleazy,” adding: "Opening the Olympics by insulting billions of Christians across the world was a really bad start.”

“We imagined a ceremony to show our values and our principles so we gave a very committed message,” Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet said. “The idea was to really trigger a reflection. We wanted to have a message as strong as possible.

“Naturally we had to take into account the international community. Having said that - it is a French ceremony for the French games - so we trusted our artistic director. We have freedom of expression in France and we wanted to protect it.”

Just maybe

As a matter of intelligent foreign policy, one should not imprint one's nation's name atop an obviously provocatively intended insult to others.

I was curious how France's opening ceremony got to . . .

. . . the majority-hostile place that it wound up.

Had France's been an artistic team's society-embracing effort — in the way that China's artistically impressive 2008 summer Olympics ceremony had been?

Apparently not.

It turns out France chose a reportedly chose a single, artistically inclined and gender-outlier person to create the opening ceremony:

The finishing touches are being put to the spectacular showpiece opening and closing ceremonies that will bookend the Olympic Games in Paris.

Both are being overseen by one of France’s leading directors, Thomas Jolly, who has explored LGBTQ themes in his theatre work and who lives with his boyfriend, also named Thomas.

Around 200 boats will form a flotilla making a six-kilometer journey along the river from east to west, with more than 300,000 people watching from embankments. Jolly admits it may be “a little chaotic” but the measure of success, he insists, is “if everyone feels represented in it.”

His back catalogue of works and stated commitment to reflecting representation at the Olympics can only bode well for LGBTQ communities in France and further afield, hoping to see themselves reflected in the grandest of modern spectacles.

Libracrat dryly (and probably exaggeratively) opined that:

His goal was to include everyone, by excluding 97%+ of the global population.

The moral? — The West is destroying itself . . .

. . . by actively undermining its individually 'national' majoritarian heritages.

Neoplastic malignance describes this phenomenon.

One could (instead) respect and tolerate 'deviance', without elevating it to a guiding principle that destroys the wider society's underpinnings.

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Leave it to France to theatrically parade the West's majority-defying rottenness — the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony