Not only failed history, but didn't see or read Carl Sagan's "Contact." If I recall correctly, broadcasts from the 1936 Olympics are the first images to reach Teh Aliens.
Or, perhaps this is me being overly optimistic, this is a sarcastic sign? "Would we have allowed Nazi Germany to- OH THAT'S RIGHT WE DID WE'RE MORONS AND IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN"
Yeeeeah, I'm gonna go with that being overly optimistic.
However, interesting point about the Berlin 1936 Olympics is that it seems to have been a do-over for the 1916 Olympics, which had been planned for Berlin but then, WHOOPS WORLD WAR. Which happened again, when the Olympics in 1940 and 1944 were postponed for the World War, and finally made it back to Italy in '56, Japan and Austria in '64, and West Germany in '72. See? If we're having an Olympics, we CAN'T be fascists anymore!
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Date: 2008-04-11 06:54 pm (UTC)Or, perhaps this is me being overly optimistic, this is a sarcastic sign? "Would we have allowed Nazi Germany to- OH THAT'S RIGHT WE DID WE'RE MORONS AND IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN"
Yeeeeah, I'm gonna go with that being overly optimistic.
However, interesting point about the Berlin 1936 Olympics is that it seems to have been a do-over for the 1916 Olympics, which had been planned for Berlin but then, WHOOPS WORLD WAR. Which happened again, when the Olympics in 1940 and 1944 were postponed for the World War, and finally made it back to Italy in '56, Japan and Austria in '64, and West Germany in '72. See? If we're having an Olympics, we CAN'T be fascists anymore!