I hear that you are unenthusiastic about the prospect of the Olympics this summer. In your eyes what is the greatest folly of the whole affair?

Rather unenthusiastic is putting it waaaaay mildly: I think the Olympics suck dogshit through a straw. People believe they encourage da yoof to take up running, jumping and fainting in coils – but this is nonsense, they’re a boondoggle for politicians and financiers, a further corruption of an already corrupt self-appointed international coterie of Olympian cunts, an exscuse for ‘elite’ athletes to fuck each other, snarf steroids and pick up sponsorship deals, and a senseless hitching of infrastructural investment – if there’s any reality to
this anyway – to a useless loss-trailing expenditure on starchitectural bollix. The stadia themselves are a reified folly, the new Westfield is a temple to moribund consumerism – in ten years time they’ll all be cracked and spalled, a Hitlerian mass of post-pomo nonsense.

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