An old, but I’m told, a good recipe to prepare for those rainy days when the kids are nagging you and you just want to find them something productive to do. Its from the ‘Junior Fascist Cookbook’ page 34, 2019 Edition. Once you’ve tried this one theres a great recipe for coal-gas ovens on the following page called ‘How to Turn a Car into a Socialist Crypt’ but lets start with the easy one first. Now the first ingredient –…
“G’day .. thats King speak,” he says. “Looks like you’re a long way from home, you lost?”. No, no says I but I’d also rather not be found. What’s with the Green Shirts and the leaflets? Selling God? “Ha Ha”, he says, “God is all around”. “Where you from?”, he says again, more in a way of intimidation than as a friendly greeting. Its obvious, even to these young country boys & girls, that I’m not from about here. I…
I left with 50 books – picked up a few gems at no cost from Gleebooks the day I left. So, as you can imagine I’m a travelling book store .. problem being that there’s no one out here who reads my sort of rubbish. The Gnomads have created this rule that books MUST be swapped. Must. So I’m likely to have a pile of Donna Hay magazines swapped for my copy of Wheen’s Karl Marx, in fact I’d probably…
There are some interesting concepts of democracy being advocated by Australian youth at the moment. These concepts, advocated by youth who say that they don’t believe in Democracy .. are mightily democratic! Did somebody turn the lights off in the classroom since I left? Of course I’m back in the back blocks with only Suicide Radio for information, that and old blokes who, as they say ‘couldnt give a shit what happens to the country anymore’. Such is life. Last…
“The prime minister knows that many fed-up voters are looking at the Coalition, already, as losers.” – Katherine Murphy. She’s gotta be joking .. don’t you think? Most of us are looking at the Coalition as morally bankrupt criminals. Thieves and corporate bully boys looking at nothing more than their pensions and dragging the good character of Australia down into the gutter with their Divine Rights. The neoLibNats have no interest in the future, not even for their pampered children….
Oh I’m so sorry, she said. Na, don’t be sorry the whole Western World is turning to corruption and misinformation .. its the backlash against Democracy we’ve always been promised was going to happen. I take it you vote? Well, I didn’t last time but I’m sure goin’ to next time! Hmm, I said, there’s going to be a change .. the whole worlds going to make a change … This was her answer to my question about whether she…
“There may have been no dams blocking the torrents of words. But those words were not advocacy, arguments or selling points. They were excuses, abuse of the opposition and rhetorical flourishes. One never got the impression that the King, or his economic ministers, were infused with and excited by ideas, or keen on the processes by which debate sharpened and improved a policy or a program. Indeed, particularly on economic matters (such as company tax cuts, the environment or kowtowing…
Its so hard not to judge other people on your values even when you know you shouldn’t. I suppose thats why we’re always trying to find shared values, not so that when we find them we can judge others, but so that when we’re forced into a position of judgement or when we jump into a judgement, we at least have an understanding of the meaning of those values. Much of my life is spent in being judged by others…
What is the job of a government? A democratic Australian government? Not much, it seems, other than indoctrination through intimidation, process disruption and the policing of morality and conscience. Oh, and collecting and hoarding moolah. Why is it that the King is going to use such ideology as an election manifesto? He’s said that nothing else matters, that these are the only true Aussie values – greed, coercion and fundamentalist purity (as long as its his). Outsourcing outcomes … They’ll…
You’d have to be blind deaf and dumb not to see where the King’s Party is trying to take Australia .. or rather where he’s trying to take his belief in Divine Right. Is this just a backlash against the inevitable political education of the youth of Australia, or do they really believe that this is beneficial for our country? They rail about ignorance, but the truth is that they continually treat us as fools. So now they want to…