In the opening ceremony of this year's Tokyo Olympics, I am a great admirer of the "moving pictogram performance".

I usually use free pictograms in my columns, presentation materials, and papers.

I even think that pictograms are a "universal language that does not require learning".

The "moving pictogram" introduced at this opening ceremony is an upgrade from "universal language that can be understood" to "universal language that speaks to us".

As a young man who used to be a theatrical performer (albeit for a short period of time), I honestly felt that the conception, realization method, order, and time allocation of the "moving pictogram performance" was "amazing.

And I want to give unreserved praise to the performers, who have probably spent an enormous amount of time practicing.

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However, in our house, that performance is not popular.

They said, "It's not a good performance for the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

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I've always felt that the opening ceremonies of the Olympics since around 2000 have been overly flamboyant, exaggerated, and full of unexpected performances, like

"a mass game that some country north of the peninsula is using as a tourism resource"

I have always felt "vaguely uncomfortable" with what has become a pompous, nationalistic ceremony.

- A flesh-and-blood human flying with a jet device attached to his back.

- The queen's helicopter dive.

- Fireworks display around the stadium.

Frankly, I've been fed up with them.

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Well, I suppose there was the constraint that it was the Olympics in the midst of the Corona disaster, but for me

I thought that it was a relatively calm opening ceremony (performance) that didn't try to be overly popular.

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In the midst of all this, the IOC President's "talk" was the worst of the worst -- or rather, it seriously "worried" me.

The way he talked about the same things over and over again reminded me of my father, who was in the early stages of cognitive impairment.

"Might it be the first Olympics in history where the IOC president himself would ruin the opening ceremony ?"

And the fact that there is no one in that hall who can stop the IOC president from talking is the same as the "universal old person problem" of "no one can stop the school principal from talking at all.

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"Get a review from someone else and practice a few times before you go on stage, you idiot," I said.

I believe I am qualified to say so, as I have always finished my presentations within the designated time, with practicing more than 10 times before going to them, even for a few conferences.