Alchemy's Poor Timing: We missed the 2016 Rio Olympics!!!!

I realized upon reading Mission 3 the tragedy of our windmill favela. What happened in 2016?

I'm quoting from Time magazine Friday October 2nd, 2009: "For the biggest athletic event of all, the Rio Olympic organizing committee has set its budget at $2.82 billion, with another $11.1 billion going to related expenses such as transport, power and security. ((Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1927543,00.html#ixzz0...))

That's an expected 14 billion dollars invested in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

So what portion of this 11.1 billion dollars is going to POWER the city of Rio? Let's put our heads together friends! This is our chance to put our Evoke Powers to work.

Thank you, Alchemy, for bringing us to Rio in the year 2020. We can see the terrible scope of our tragic allocation of funds for the 2016 Olympics before it's even happened.

Ouch. This really hurts.

I had so much hope for Brazil's strategic planning of the Olympics as a platform for revolutionary and emotionally intelligent experimentalism. Brazil's Minister of Strategic Planning was the youngest professor ever to teach at Harvard University -- a real shining light in the world of politics and a true hopeful voice in favor of experimentalism in global economic affairs. I'm speaking of Roberto Mangabeira Unger.

The Evoke Mission in Rio is actually a contributing factor in my emotional pain right now. I'm worried about missed opportunities. In 2008 I listened to Presidential hopeful Barack Obama deliver some spine-tingling speeches that literally made me cry out with hope. But in my journal-writing at night I asked myself, "Will he betray me?" Although I understand the complexity of his presidential situation, and although I understand the difficulties involved in the implementation of radical-centrist integral ideas, my feeling today is one of mild betrayal. I just feel that America is missing an opportunity. Our untapped energies as people with desire and imagination is astronomical. This is exactly the kind of untapped energy that Roberto Mangabeira Unger devotes his life to releasing. Unger's books have inspired me for almost two years now, since I found a copy of Knowledge & Politics in a Hawaii state library during the beginning of the Obama campaign. Unger was Minister of Strategic Planning for Brazil when Rio de Janeiro won the bid to host the 2016 Olympics. Literally I jumped with delight to hear the news of Rio's victory -- precisely because I believed this to mean that Roberto Mangabeira Unger just received a 20 billion dollar budget to implement his collaborative life's-work vision of experimentalized economic policy.

With the Evoke Mission in Rio it seems that my hopes are dashed.

11.1 billion dollars were wasted on stadiums with disastrously wasteful lighting. 11.1 billion dollars were wasted on coal generators, bygone electrical grids, and a host of other next-best-things.

What a pity!!!!

Now, my instinct, my inclination, and my conviction is to snap out of the 2020 shadow-boxing Gestalt-therapeutic trance and issue an URGENT EVOKE to our 2010 gaming community.

We can still save Rio!!!!

Our mission is to research who is funding the Olympics, who is planning the allocation of resources, and what their plans are for energy infrastructure. We can use our Evoke Powers to make it desirable and imaginatively entertaining for these planners to consider truly extraordinary uses of this reported 11.1 billion dollars for "security, transportation, and power". We can impact the events depicted in Mission 3 in our little favela. We can influence the formation of the future.

If you hear what I'm saying here, If you can dig my angle on this --- let's EVOKE!!!!