“Is it decent, can it be just that these prerogatives should be exercised by any power less than the supreme or be decided by any authority but that which most adequately represents the voice of a nation? This principle ought, beyond question, to be extended universally. There can be no just reason for excluding the national representative from the exercise of any function, the exercise of which, on the part of the society, is in any case necessary. The functions…
When cowards hide in authority, the world is lost. The wounds allow to fester, like a splinter beneath the skin. The wound becomes inflamed and wars begin as the red rises. We have looked to our elders in their higher wisdom. Here, in this example you find the truth (that must couple with understanding and comfort) of what authority means. It is where we look to those of the greater wisdom of our environment. For we seek to learn. It…
Went deeper bush yesterday .. kinda by accident .. a change of trees and birds. Too many trees. One of the problems with going deeper bush these days is that you always come across some poor soul who’s trying to go even deeper. For whatever reason. Anyway, the little clearing I’m in – obviously a vehicle dismantling yard at sometime in the past, not the sort of place backpackers stop in – is part of the ingress to a ‘deep…
“I am your King. I am Judge of what is best for Me. I will go my own way. I desire your assistance in it.” – James I, to his ‘Parliament’. Lord I’m having an anuerism.. & a damned heart attack. This government needs to be stopped, it’s appalling. Even with your heads buried deep into the gold dust you have to feel the slope a sliding… Today we have a neo-liberal senator – a representative – advocating an end…