Whew! lol! Which is it? Socialists using the Olympics as a propaganda tool, or Corporations using it as a dirty capitalist tool to make bank? Funny how people can watch the same thing and come away with completely different messages.
Corp-capitalism(big fat kid,who ate food of all kids in his class and wanna more food from other's class for himself)+Eu's socialism(german playground for big fat kid) now and national socialism(german nazism) or international socialism(communism) in the past.Find difference
I enjoyed it because It made me understand British history a little bit better well. I mean It was like you want to know what happen to the country really fast without picking up a book. BAM !
I didn't watch all so called ceremony(because was really boring imho)

but I don't think that you will understand fully for example "industry era" from watching some showtime with smiled
adult actors...it's like talking about that what's happened in Japan 2011 for a some time in similar style:"we got fucked by Fukushima 100 years ago but now all is coloured and pinky so 100 years ago,it had to be such gay like now too",let's make showtime,where Japaneses will be played by Native Americans...
Nigga/Asian/Indian/Pakistani and whoever play in this multi-culti bullshit,please
Public events has to be pinky and gay as that's what target group demands from rulers-show us coloured lies in schema known from tv and we will believe that all is fine as you said.
You should understand it as marketers
yeah right its taking money from the poor peoples and pushing it to the big companies.
40 billion pounds just moved from public to big companies.The average joe has nothing from it and the sport part is a joke too its who has the better medicine equipment for doping which cant get traced.Capitol for international doping is spain and china.It has NOTHING to do anymore with sport and fair play idea it has only one function to earn companies big cash and to update the security to the newest level.
the Olympics=roman's area for unhappy roman's mass long time ago=communist's parade's for "new people" not so long time ago
10+ for moral of modern "the average joe",who is going to believe that /her life doesn't suck because "we" have such event in our country or generally in "democracy". Then you can sell him/her some fantastic stories over and over again.
Although the opening ceremony wasn't as good as the Beijing one, I still enjoyed it.
Too bad,that we were busy of so called fight about freedom in Tibet-"free Tibet 2008" sponsored by agencies related to CIA.
It had to be great opening ceremony.