tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24279830.post6003595096849703175..comments2023-09-10T09:42:14.978-04:00Comments on Fears and Frets: China is so... ChinaRionn Fears Malechemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05998730706323172918noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24279830.post-81294732409374359362008-08-29T01:58:00.000-04:002008-08-29T01:58:00.000-04:00Fireworks is a Chinese art, and if anyone's entitl...Fireworks is a Chinese art, and if anyone's entitled to digitally enhance them, it's the Chinese.<BR/><BR/>But no one is.<BR/><BR/>As an Olympic host country, China was competing for the amount of brouhaha they could create. And fireworks are part of that. They were misrepresenting their digital superpositions as these works of art on which nations compete -- every time I go to Canada, it seems, there's a bunch of other countries there competing with fireworks displays.<BR/><BR/>Fireworks are a particular thing. We don't allow athletes to be enhanced by drugs or prosthetics, because the isolation of particular things is fundamental to international competition on those things. Red China was essentially thumbing its nose at the concept of unenhanced presentation. It's a bad way to start an Olympics.Rionn Fears Malechemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05998730706323172918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24279830.post-4789783566410057492008-08-20T16:12:00.000-04:002008-08-20T16:12:00.000-04:00Perhaps it is intent? In this case aren't they sim...Perhaps it is intent? In this case aren't they simply trying to create magic? And they are so pleased that they succeeded. It was quite a show! Not sure where the harm is?Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17810861213736562235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24279830.post-35624917328902166502008-08-15T13:52:00.000-04:002008-08-15T13:52:00.000-04:00Your title is so...aptIt is totally unfair of cour...Your title is so...apt<BR/><BR/>It is totally unfair of course, but somehow, where this sort of thing is totally, utterly unthinkable in a Western society, it is reasonable in China. Why?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com