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The Carrot said:
blackcat said:
I was always joking on the gordonstoun reference.
I'm sure you were, but there is a serious point about it (for me at least). Places like Gordonstoun, Eton, Harrow etc are where those who go on to become part of the British Establishment are frequently educated. How is that relevant to British doping? Well the establishment is essentially a club where the interests and of the country's politicians, media barons, judges, police, businessmen (knights of the realm) meet. That club will do anything to hold onto their power and money and it will look after its own. It will definitely be influencing the British sporting world, especially it's now successful with money to be made. And therein is the lie, the narrative is that institutions such as Gordonstoun educate the young to behave in a morally superior 'British' fashion, but actually they are being indoctrinated into a rather dodgy organisation.
yeah, there was a dual market for my invocation of gordonstoun, it was to parody the chariots of fire clean brits thing, when everyone dopes just like the russians, your team, my team, their team, everyones team, all teams...
but the meta reference was about that muscular chritianity doctrine, yeah, there was some glimmer of antecedence...
and even tho they are aristocratic schools, those public schools, harrow rugby dragon westminster eton above the grammar schools, they still provide trickle down cultural and educational repertory that other nations owe a debt to.... gordonstoun is a bit unique sitting in its own place beside the public schools,
but it was all for jocularity and #Wildeandrollery, and I thought a british sense of humour woulda picked that up pretty fast, surely a jewish humour would have reconciled it, p'raps it may be lost on the americans...
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