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I'm sure everybody has heard about some of the unhappiness about the Olympics. The lip-synching for the opening ceremony and how the fireworks that were shown on the screen were actually pre-recorded. This has taken the world by storm as we all feel outraged and cheated. I'm sure some of us feel that way, if not all and i can fully empathize with these people. Is China really over-doing it or is it just doing it's best to ensure that things don't go wrong?
Personally, I think they aren't exactly at fault. The scale at which Olympics is held is extremely huge and there can be no room for mistakes. Under such pressure, one would succumb to what I'd like to call cheating which is exactly what China did. China cannot risk smearing it's reputation in one of the most important moments in sports history. The best way would to be to cheat which I think is not something new when it comes to conducting large scale events. There would always be back-ups or ways of sorta indirectly deceiving the audience. Just like when you go for an open house, you can't take the things there at face value. The environment is just so contrived and artificial. But people aren't ever outraged. People only get outraged over these things if it's exposed in an explicit manner. Allow me to draw a parallel. You enter a school carnival and the school is known for it's caring students etc and you see students providing assistance to the elderly and less-abled and on your way home, you see students from that school ignoring the existence of a physically-challenged person who clearly needs help. I think you and I would both feel outraged and cheated in a manner.
The same goes for China. Perhaps the organising committee should not have had admitted to all those things that they did. But again, it would be a matter of integrity.
Human psychology is just weird, I feel. Even though we know we are being cheated, we allow ourselves to be cheated willingly.