Vancouver’s poet laureate, Brad Cran, has stated that he won’t participate in the Olympic celebrations. In case you haven’t heard, here’s what’s behind his decision. Obviously, the whole question of the Olympics is a hugely complicated debate between millions of hopes and hundreds of thousands of concerns. I, for one, am concerned about the nature of big-budget global spectacle as the template for a future where cities pull out all the stops for the chance to produce the next “block-buster.” Under this analogy, the future is Waterworld, bad acting and all.
