Heathrow Air­port

Heathrow Air­port is the per­fect “gate­way to the Olympics” says Lon­don 2012 orga­nizer Henry Struft.  “It’s hor­ri­bly crowded,  fea­tures end­less queues and is, in essence, a vul­gar labyrinth of commercialism.”

Like The Olympics, Heathrow Air­port is a vast shill mis­un­der­stood by the gen­eral pub­lic as hav­ing some­thing to do with the state and the greater good.  “Most peo­ple do think air­ports are pub­lic prop­erty and oper­ated by the Gov­ern­ment to help its cit­i­zens travel. Like­wise, very many peo­ple actu­ally believe Olympics is about sport and not, as is the case, about adver­tis­ing,” says Struft.

“Heathrow and the Olympics are all about myth mak­ing,” Struft explained.  “Heathrow is no more a major air­port than the Olympics are a cel­e­bra­tion of ama­teur athletics.”

Heathrow Air­port is actu­ally a sys­tem of cor­ralling would-be trav­el­ers into a maze of over­priced shops.  Inad­e­quate seat­ing greatly increases the chances of some­one pay­ing too much for some­thing they don’t need.

The Lon­don Olympics’  Wagner-meets-Kiss offi­cial anthem, “Sur­vival” was orig­i­nally penned after a four day wait, with­out food and water, at Pass­port Con­trol.  Fit­tingly the third of the five rings, or more accu­rately “shack­les”, of the Olympic sym­bol rep­re­sents “futility”.

The other shack­les rep­re­sent “cor­po­rate stran­gle­hold”, “the fun­da­men­tal role of chas­ing a ball in the human expe­ri­ence”, “the enslave­ment of the host city” and “a deep hole”.  The five shack­les are linked together to sug­gest a con­spir­acy.

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