Power Dynamics
Left: Tokyo Governor Ishihara
Center: Japanese lookalike of U.S. president
Right: Hiroshima Mayor Akiba
When International Olympic Committee Chairman Jacques Rogge announced October 2 that the 2016 Summer Olympics will be hosted by Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara almost lost words and barely managed to mumble, "I can't figure out the power dynamics (rikigaku) within the IOC." He was telling the truth except that it's not only the dynamics inside the IOC but also the dynamics governing anywhere else that the empty-headed governor cannot understand.
Japanese media could not hide their disappointment either because their unaudited poll results had invariably indicated the entire nation was supporting Ishihara's silly bid. Fortunately for them, though, that didn't last long because the Japanese people have been so used to losing a competition. Moreover, it seems as though they have acquired special skills to derive a twisted pleasure from a defeat since 1964 when two athletes committed suicide after they had failed to come up to popular expectations at the Tokyo Olympics.
Then came the news that Barack Hussein Obama, who had also lost in his bid to have Chicago host the Olympic Games in 2016, was awarded the year's Nobel Peace Prize. Now it was my turn to be puzzled about the power dynamics at the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. But I don't care too much about it because by now I have become accustomed to seeing the American president rewarded, in many ways, for his promises rather than accomplishments.
Ironically enough, the two Committees unwittingly paved the way for another moron by the name of Tadatoshi Akiba to make a bid to host the 2020 Olympics. The Hiroshima Mayor, who has had a "slobbering love affair" with Obama since April 5, thought that by 2020, we will be living in a nuclear-free world and Hiroshima will be the ideal venue to celebrate Obama's feat.
It remains to be seen what power dynamics will be at work in 2013 when the IOC members are to cast their ballots. But unless American voters wake up to the real power dynamics governing this world by 2012, odds are high that on August 6, 2020 we will be watching mushroom-shaped fireworks at the opening ceremony of the Hiroshima Olympics.
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