The organizer of the vulgar and sacrilegious display of “The Last Supper” in the Olympics opening ceremony, Thomas Jolly, first enthusiastically explained his vision: “How do you write a show in which everybody, at one point, feels represented and a part this bigger thing, this bigger ‘us'? For an artist, it is a beautiful responsibility to have. It’s ambitious but also complex because one has to broaden one’s own imagery, one’s own outlook and include everyone, understand everyone so that no one feels left behind.”
Having managed, with a blatant obscenity to both the Christian and the civilized world, to destroy “this bigger thing,” and also to have his attempt to “understand” the drag queen community befuddle perhaps one and all, he later attempted a more traditional defense: “Our idea was inclusion. Naturally, when we want to include everyone and not exclude anyone, questions are raised. Our subject was not to be subversive. We never wanted to be subversive. We wanted to talk about diversity. Diversity means being together. We wanted to include everybody. In France, we have artistic freedom. We are lucky in France to live in a free country.”
“Not exclude anyone”? Why not a Nazi gas chamber? “Not to be subversive”? Who is he kidding? “Diversity means being together”? Why deliberately insult a large mass of humanity? And there, in short order, is an encapsulation of the bizarre confusion of mind so prevalent and so accepted in a dying culture.
Otherwise, the head of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee, Tony Estanguet, defended their 2022 selection of Jolly and his ceremony, saying: ‘We imagined a ceremony to show our values and our principles, so we gave a very committed message. The idea was to really trigger a reflection. We wanted to have a message as strong as possible. Naturally we had to take into account the international community. Having said that—it is a French ceremony for the French games—so we trusted our artistic director. We have freedom of expression in France and we wanted to protect it.”
Alas, for those poor countries who lack freedom of expression, and who struggle with outmoded constraints such as beauty, truth and morality.
