Many Roman gladiators were treated as slaves, forced to fight for the entertainment of the public under harsh conditions. These fighters, drawn from slaves, prisoners of war, or condemned criminals, understood the brutal reality of their situation. They endured unimaginable hardships, knowing that any attempt to speak out could lead to severe punishment or even death.
This historical reality resonates with those who fought in Eastern Europe, where individuals from rural areas were compelled to fight across the communist world, hundreds of fights on grand stages, where others’ could gain large wealth and entertain large audiences. Many of them won hundreds of titles — national, European, international — over decades.
These were not athletes seeking glory but real champions, engaged in countless brutal competitions. If you think they might be weak or not world level, ask fighters here if they want to fight them. They remained humble and quiet because they knew the consequences of speaking out, having learned from history to endure and stay silent, or face death.
If any of these champions had been given even a small token of recognition, a tiny piece of gold, or a coin, a tiny piece of bronze, a tiny piece of brass, they would have cherished it deeply and for life they would have held on to it and given it to their children. Because it was real — it meant something. It represented quality — a quality life, a quality future, a real asset.
It meant that freedom was attained from slavery, the slavery of communism and the freedom of precious metals.
It meant that they had brought precious metals ownership to their societies. It signified ownership and an escape from communism. Through their battles, they attained that piece of metal as a way to escape communism into a world of material value and respect, class, safety, security, commerce and leadership — a testament to their resilience, dignity, perseverance, and victory (What combat and victory can bring to free people.)
Imagine if these athletes and fighters, who gave everything in the ring, and then for the rest of their life to serve their families and communities, had been honoured with even a tiny silver spoon or a fork whatever, doesn’t have to be a spoon, but any kitchen utensil will do — a mere symbol of respect and acknowledgement.
They would have cherished it for forty years, holding it as proof that they too had class, that they too were worthy of standing among the best in society, that society had acknowledged their efforts in the public record. …
instead of constantly blowing up the national archives as communist like to do to hide people’s records and people’s achievements, these communists do exactly what woke do in Canada HR ecosystem and public hiring systems, in terms of erasing professional achievement or preventing it from entering corporations and/or government (but only hiring administrative thing with no combat understanding of using STEM and industrial and technological process to advance society).
The woke in Canada do not understand the Olympic ethos. The Olympic managers do not understand the Olympic ethos. The only people that do, are the dying athletes of the past that were used by the greedy, as they are used in modern Olympics at Paris with fake medals that are not even real metal (not real gold or not real anything).
This simple gesture, or providing a “real piece of metal to an athlete” would have validated their struggles, offering them a sense of pride and belonging and it would have been immense in how valuable it would be to the athletes (at lest that of the last generation if the current generation doesn’t understand anymore).
But the reality is, even today, with the modern Olympics, athletes keep striving, yet those in charge continue to exploit them, to use them, without offering proper recognition. The absence of genuine acknowledgement with item of real value speaks volumes about how society values — or fails to value — those who endure and excel under the harshest conditions.
It underscores a disturbing trend: a reluctance to reward true merit and effort, perhaps even a desire to discourage people from becoming Olympic athletes by making it seem “not worth it to become an Olympic athlete in the minds of the public, reducing the scale of the athletic competition network within nations, such that instead of fighting 200 to 300 times to earn the right to enter the Olympic competition, you can fight the neighbour, two more people, and then you are in the Olympic competition”.
This trend hints at a broader agenda, where the aim seems to be “the erosion of competition in sports and society”, by reducing the interest in joining those sports.
By diminishing the rewards and recognition for excellence, it feels as though there is a push to ensure that no one stands out, that no one is celebrated as exceptional.
The real power, then, remains with those who control the platforms — the landowners upon which the modern gladiators compete and fight, just as the older gladiators in Roman times/slaves took shelter in the landowner’s training area in Roman times, obeying often a man of much less character, probably more corrupt mentality, and much less fighting ability or no ability at all.
Think Spartacus: Blood and Sand.
Think Spartacus: Gods of the Arena.
Think Spartacus: Vengeance.
Think Spartacus: War of the Damned.
The Olympics should be a forward-looking institution, celebrating the pinnacle of human achievement and spirit and the pinnacle of character and the character we wish future civilization to have. Instead, it risks becoming a tool for those who wish to stifle individual excellence and maintain control, leaving true champions unrecognized, unappreciated and used.
It’s time to demand better — for those who endure and excel under the harshest conditions and attain victory for their countries and prove the progress of their civilization.
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