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The Olympics - UK Style...!


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Welcome to lockdown London

 

 

As a metaphor for the London Olympics, it could hardly be more stark. The much-derided "Wenlock" Olympic mascot is now available in London Olympic stores dressed as a Metropolitan police officer. For £10.25 you, too, can own the ultimate symbol of the Games: a member of by far the biggest and most expensive security operation in recent British history packaged as tourist commodity. Eerily, his single panoptic-style eye, peering out from beneath the police helmet, is reminiscent of the all-seeing eye of God so commonly depicted at the top of Enlightenment paintings. In these, God's eye maintained a custodial and omniscient surveillance on His unruly subjects far below on terra firma.

 

So this little chap is the image they want you to think about....

 

 

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Of course, this is in reality what you'll see....

 

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How many will be shot during the games?....

 

I must look up the odds at Paddy Power..... :Fun:

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