353 - Symbolism Explained: The Olympics Opening Ceremony is Worse than You Thought

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this video, I discuss the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony and its drag Dionysian representation of The Last Supper, I discuss why specifically the images of Dionysus and the Last Supper were used, other elements of the opening, the purpose and meaning of such symbolic demonstrations, and finally, the question of intent.

Original YouTube version: https://youtu.be/rckBhO23cIA

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0:00.0	This is actually one of the funniest things about this event is all these people and a lot of
0:05.1	Christians going online saying, it's actually not the Last Supper. You know, it's the Feast of Dionysus.
0:11.8	Why are all the Christians getting so annoyed? And why are the Christians getting so mad?
0:16.0	You know, I am educated. I understand that this is the feast of Dionysus. It's like the capacity of people
0:22.6	to easily accept gaslighting is hilarious. You know, I mean, it's like are we still, are we back in
0:29.7	COVID once again? Is that what's going on? Or, you know, I guess so. I guess it doesn't take much.
0:35.1	You know, people don't learn their lesson.
0:50.2	This is Jonathan Pajot.
0:52.4	Welcome to the symbolic world. So hello, everyone. So hello everyone.
1:03.0	As most of you noticed, the Olympic opening has created quite a stir.
1:09.0	A lot of people reacting online. It seems like everyone is talking
1:13.0	about it for some reason on Facebook. It's like my entire feed with people commenting on the
1:19.0	Olympic opening ceremony. To be honest, I did not have the intention of making a video on this,
1:24.5	but people close to me that I care about and that I trust have said that it would
1:30.8	be a good idea to make a video about it, mostly because, yeah, maybe to help people understand
1:36.3	what is going on and why things look the way they do. And so here we are. I'm going to talk about
1:43.1	the Olympics opening ceremony.
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