To take or not to take...
To take or not to take... seems to be the new Shakespearean dilemma for many, but in the Olympic season the sportsmen are obviously in the spotlight. The heroes of our time willing to sacrifice their health, and sometimes the very life, for our family-oriented entertainment. So sweet, aren't they?
So, it was established by some sectors of American society that a middle-aged boob is obscene, but doping of all sorts is apparently OK, as long as it is discreet and kept illegal. We love to be hypocrites and to play saints, don't we? Well, so boobs are banned from American mainstream media (thanks goodness Europe is not so politically correct yet), and this hypocrisy is not going away anytime soon, so why don't we end another cover-up and legalize doping in sports? [And while we are at it, let's legalize marijuana too, after all the 100% legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco are more addictive and health-damaging than the herb.]
Back to sports and other phenomena.
Let's see - women take whatever they can to lose weight and bodybuilders do the same to pump it up, kids are on Ritalin and men on Viagra - why on earth those of whom we demand most physically are to be denied "a little help from my friends"? After all it could be better for everyone and closer to the truth. Someone please convince me that Florance Griffith-Joyner and Carl Lewis were clean while only Ben Johnson run on steroids, Lance Armstrong was powered on 6 Tours de France by radiation residue only... riiight. Pure as yesterday's snow in New York (was that the phrase? or something similar?).
If doping was openly admitted the huge pharmaceutical companies could not only take the lead in research of all sorts of legal enhancing drugs, but, why not, sponsor the events too. Pfizer Cup anyone? The purists could have their own Clean Games once in a blue moon. There would be no point of holding many more clean event equivalents, who'd watch "100% Pure Giro d'Italia" with like 5 participants?
Anyway, sad episodes of police raiding athletes' lodgings
could be avoided, let the heroes eat, sleep, train and inject in peace. After all they embody our dreams of fame and fortune, just like the "American" and other "Idol" hopefuls. We love them, we envy them, we live through their success or fall... OK, that's for another post. Soon.
So, it was established by some sectors of American society that a middle-aged boob is obscene, but doping of all sorts is apparently OK, as long as it is discreet and kept illegal. We love to be hypocrites and to play saints, don't we? Well, so boobs are banned from American mainstream media (thanks goodness Europe is not so politically correct yet), and this hypocrisy is not going away anytime soon, so why don't we end another cover-up and legalize doping in sports? [And while we are at it, let's legalize marijuana too, after all the 100% legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco are more addictive and health-damaging than the herb.]
Back to sports and other phenomena.
Let's see - women take whatever they can to lose weight and bodybuilders do the same to pump it up, kids are on Ritalin and men on Viagra - why on earth those of whom we demand most physically are to be denied "a little help from my friends"? After all it could be better for everyone and closer to the truth. Someone please convince me that Florance Griffith-Joyner and Carl Lewis were clean while only Ben Johnson run on steroids, Lance Armstrong was powered on 6 Tours de France by radiation residue only... riiight. Pure as yesterday's snow in New York (was that the phrase? or something similar?).
If doping was openly admitted the huge pharmaceutical companies could not only take the lead in research of all sorts of legal enhancing drugs, but, why not, sponsor the events too. Pfizer Cup anyone? The purists could have their own Clean Games once in a blue moon. There would be no point of holding many more clean event equivalents, who'd watch "100% Pure Giro d'Italia" with like 5 participants?
Anyway, sad episodes of police raiding athletes' lodgings
could be avoided, let the heroes eat, sleep, train and inject in peace. After all they embody our dreams of fame and fortune, just like the "American" and other "Idol" hopefuls. We love them, we envy them, we live through their success or fall... OK, that's for another post. Soon.
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