So, the amount of resources required to change the lives of a thousand people misses the amount of resources required for an Olympic event by a few orders of magnitude. If it were really just about the athletes, let's save 99.99% of our money and dispense with the audience and the advertisers, and just provide some grants to amateur athletics.
But people who care about the success or failure of the President, they're concerned to the tune of millions of people and livelihoods, not thousands, and next to that, the personal challenges and glory of a tiny minority of athletes seems totally ephemeral to me. Besides, I'm at least 40% sure that Michael Phelps is a robot.
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Date: 2009-10-14 09:08 pm (UTC)But people who care about the success or failure of the President, they're concerned to the tune of millions of people and livelihoods, not thousands, and next to that, the personal challenges and glory of a tiny minority of athletes seems totally ephemeral to me. Besides, I'm at least 40% sure that Michael Phelps is a robot.