Tokyo 2020: A Love Letter To The Olympic Games

An exploration of the incongruity between the Olympic Games and the selfish individualism of late-capitalism.

The primary cultural discriminator between Millennials and Zoomers in Australia is the fact that only the former experienced the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. If the towers falling twelve months later marked our collective loss of innocence, then these games were our sentimental zenith. The depressive malaise that hangs spectre-like over both cohorts can appear uniform to…