Titillating the Wound: My Thoughts about the Olympics Triggeroo

Staying cool amid chaos is easier said than done but it helps a lot

Here’s what I think is really happening with the ongoing social-media-friendly Olympics outrage. I was originally going to write about it in the context of the opening ceremony but it took me a few days to get to it, meanwhile, another wave of Olympics-inspired outrage came, occupied people’s minds and social media feeds for a full day, and went away. All this made me think again about how and why we sometimes choose to give our energy to bits of BREAKING NEWS that are set in motion as energy mining operations by the people upstairs who are not quite our friends.

What is really happening, in my opinion, is that the aspiring masters are somewhat succeeding at making sincere people in all cultural camps act out their trauma—and, based on the pain from the wound, go at each other’s throats over the symbols with which sincere common people in different cultural camps associate all things good.

And yes, it is true that the aspiring masters don’t mind creating actual pain, breaking actual…