Many are saying "they've gone too far" – They being, perhaps, the French Olympic Committee, or maybe the International Olympic Committee, or maybe…who knows? In any event, they cannot engage in overt mockery of religiously revered symbols. They must apologize.

On the bright side, some people also say, this could be the beginning of the end of "wokeism." A return to sanity. Judeo-Christian values, and all that.

All of these responses, whether outraged or hopeful, are beside the point.

The freakish event – which was supposed to celebrate physical excellence, athletic accomplishments, and international cooperation – was a sinister message from our creepy globalist overlords: We control the narrative.

Nothing you believe or hold sacred is relevant at all. Religion, science, art, history, sporting competitions – we will crush it all and give you a lavishly offensive spectacle. (Or a shiny new iPad. Remember the ad?)

The surreal super-saturated, cotton-candy-hued imagery of the Olympic opening ceremony is eerily reminiscent of The Hunger Games, a series of books and subsequent films depicting a dystopian world where the elites occupy "The Capitol" and everyone else struggles for survival in "the districts." The Games in the title are an annual spectator event for which each district must sacrifice a child, who then competes to the death with the children from the other districts. Only one child survives.

The 2024 Paris Olympic Games may be far from the savagery of the gladiatorial Hunger Games. But the parallels between the fictional Capitol and Paris as a metaphorical center for globalist power are bone-chilling.

Here are some descriptions from a "Hunger Games" fan site interspersed with brief commentary:

The Capitol of Panem is a technologically advanced metropolis where the nation's most wealthy and powerful citizens live. The Capitol is also the colloquial name for the ruling government of Panem.

Note the conflation of place and ruling elites. "Davos" comes to mind (with Paris as a symbolic stand-in).

As the wealthiest of Panem, Capitol citizens tend to possess lucrative jobs, such as fashion designers, news reporters, bank managers, doctors, scientists, university professors, etc.