Ralph Steadman on the Olympics

The artist's interpretation of London 2012, with hints of Danny Boyle's opening ceremony.

Ralph Steadman for the New Statesman
London and the Olympics. Illustration: Ralph Steadman for the New Statesman

In this week's New Statesman, a double issue special about London (available on the newsstands now), you'll find a superb essay by Will Self on a walk he took through our capital. To illustrate this, the NS artdesk commissioned artist Ralph Steadman to do a piece inspired by London 2012:

 

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Keith Richard Radford Jr's picture

You got it backward in some respects and you have it right on others.
See the ones that were successful subjects are the ones that would continue the work of the third rite, right into the fourth rite continueing the use of religious bigotry to cleans the earth of all the people hitler hated. That is a failed policy and look what it did for Europe in the 30's and 40's. The entire thing is sad to think that religion can solve the worlds problems. Religion is designed to case division between people so they can chose who and how to hate the people that listen to the next religion so that institution gets the peoples praise for serving an unseen entity one way over another and the my gods bigger than your god trash has got to stop before this world of human inhabiters just end up all dead.
No dude, The whole thing has been highjacked by these women who will sex up these powerful men in positions of authority and then the guys have to hide what they did from everyone because these women will use the sex card to say they are not moral enough to be in that position. It's a ridicules paradise, and such a waist of effort to bow to the ridiculers whims when the ladies us such power saying the M-Word (monogamy) to control men.
To the dogs with this trash because it gives everyone's power away to something that is as natural to people as water. That is sex. We know that feeling when we orgasium, and we all know we like it and then we are supposed to feel guilty for that? Don't do it it's a trap. Some people go through life never having an orgasium and don't have a clue what they are missing so it means nothing to them to belittle someone that enjoys the tender loving feeling they can share with an outer person but that's not bad enough these people envy, people that do so they need to be thought of less than they are because the person looking down their nose at the one enjoying life is so egocentric and they have a bible, koran, or some other book that tells them they need to die with experiencing sex.
The pink triangles of the times the words used to degrade one another and the money spent in court make laws to harm each other, all this effort and energy could be used to feed the world and each package of food could arrive with a sex toy and we would spend less money than the things we are doing now. Where is the power in that? Only leaders look for power and only follower need someone else to guide them. MKULTRA is a program designed by people using peoples most basic vulnerabilities. To beat them at that game we must think outside the box. Don't let old tapes destroy our lives.

Keith Richard Radford Jr's picture

You got it backward in some respects and you have it right on others.
See the ones that were successful subjects are the ones that would continue the work of the third rite, right into the fourth rite continueing the use of religious bigotry to cleans the earth of all the people hitler hated. That is a failed policy and look what it did for Europe in the 30's and 40's. The entire thing is sad to think that religion can solve the worlds problems. Religion is designed to case division between people so they can chose who and how to hate the people that listen to the next religion so that institution gets the peoples praise for serving an unseen entity one way over another and the my gods bigger than your god trash has got to stop before this world of human inhabiters just end up all dead.
No dude, The whole thing has been highjacked by these women who will sex up these powerful men in positions of authority and then the guys have to hide what they did from everyone because these women will use the sex card to say they are not moral enough to be in that position. It's a ridicules paradise, and such a waist of effort to bow to the ridiculers whims when the ladies us such power saying the M-Word (monogamy) to control men.
To the dogs with this trash because it gives everyone's power away to something that is as natural to people as water. That is sex. We know that feeling when we orgasium, and we all know we like it and then we are supposed to feel guilty for that? Don't do it it's a trap. Some people go through life never having an orgasium and don't have a clue what they are missing so it means nothing to them to belittle someone that enjoys the tender loving feeling they can share with an outer person but that's not bad enough these people envy, people that do so they need to be thought of less than they are because the person looking down their nose at the one enjoying life is so egocentric and they have a bible, koran, or some other book that tells them they need to die with experiencing sex.
The pink triangles of the times the words used to degrade one another and the money spent in court make laws to harm each other, all this effort and energy could be used to feed the world and each package of food could arrive with a sex toy and we would spend less money than the things we are doing now. Where is the power in that? Only leaders look for power and only follower need someone else to guide them. MKULTRA is a program designed by people using peoples most basic vulnerabilities. To beat them at that game we must think outside the box. Don't let old tapes destroy our lives.

Earthling,unfortunately's picture

I thought the opening ceremony was very apt, because of the industrial age, everybody got more sick and the NHS was born. I bet the big pharmas were counting their money all the way to the big banks, still are. Personally, I preferred the first idyllic scene, with all the green fields and organic farming on a local scale. It was at a time when people looked out for one another. The modern age has allowed the greedy manipulative people to gain power in the world.

I cried when the children's scene came on, not for the totally healthy beautiful children we saw last night singing and acting, but for the fact that there are people in the world who are plotting RIGHT NOW to destroy their innocence and take away their right to have a free life, just as they have done to millions of children already, and are STILL DOING it!

Folks, you need to wake up. There are people on this planet trying to destroy our freedoms, and the whole thing last night was a terribly expensive charade of supposed progress for the better. We are getting eaten from the inside, because we REFUSE to OPEN OUR EYES. You need to watch on youtube, to see what's going on:

"MIND CONTROL - OUT OF CONTROL - MKULTRA - CATHY O'BRIEN" parts 1-2

Cathy O'Brien is one of about 2 million who were taken in as children to the Mind Control program behind closed doors behind the cover of CIA - where horrible, unmentionable things were done to her mind and body, where they rape babies IN ORDER TO TRAUMATISE them, so that they can get control of their minds. We need to help America rid itself of their evil government, because if we don't, this is coming to us next.

anon3's picture

brilliant :)

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