Cave-Hermits Union of
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October 2004 |
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The Australian Federal Election is on tomorrow and it's been different this campaign, Latham's Labor has made the choice much more definite between the Bib And Bub sameness of yesteryears, Latham has articulated for the electorate the huge differences in emphasis based on the more universal nature of Labor's policies rather than those narrow minded subsidies the So-Called Liberals give to the rich and big business, so maybe this is the big test to see if Australians can see the wood for the trees...
Labor wins on Health with Medicare resuscitation, and Labor wins on Public Schools with redistribution of funds to the Public Schools who need it, and Labor wins on so many other platforms, like the concentration of Defence in the Local Region, the Truth instead of Lies and Blame Shifting, the Cohesive Society instead of Wedge Politics to divide and pump up fear and intolerance, and the Labor commitment to get those bluddy minded loggers out of the forests and get them into other employment, not that they deserve much, Labor is being fairer and more sensible in the Social Services distribution, and not the lump sum throw away vote buying sprees the So-Called Liberals chuck like tickets to the Wharfies in the old days, and out of the scramble the money goes wasted into pokies and binges...
And the personalities of the contenders has shown what a lying deceitful Little Brat the PM has been all through, indulging in Wedging the people into hateful groupings and undermining opposing groups, while Latham has brought a new sense of energy and justice and inclusiveness and hope into the Political Life... The way the Little Liar took Australia into that illegal attack on Iraq, based on some muddle-headed backroom deal with George Dubya-Dubya-III , it's all now completely debunked with the latest news putting the Sham label on the whole scenario...
And then there's the surging Greens, where Bob Brown and all the Green candidates I've seen have that intelligence and appreciation of the scientific evidence and history of Human devastation and how we can redirect energy into reducing the harm... The Greens have the ethics and morals that the world needs to adopt to deal with the future, the foresight to preserve a future and hopefully let the future generations inherit anything at all, it amazes me how these Private School wankers think along the lines of providing for their kids and then have them misled down religious ratbag pathways which destroy the planet, the Privateers can't see past their long snobby noses...
So thank christ we wont have these infuriating waste of call back callers dumping their wacky hare-brained opinions out on the airwaves, there's this preoccupation of finding swing voters to reveal their innermost thoughts which turn out to be baseless uninformed mush and isn't worth the waste of time, it's like these wankers lining up for the Radio Quiz Shows and get on Air and say Oh shucks, oh dear, oh I have no idea, but here I am on the air so can I say Hi to my brains trust? Or some such drivel... Why the hell can't we have non-pollie well-informed people with an honest opinion, being given two minutes on Air or so to articulate their biases without tiptoeing down some middle of the road... Start off with I'm voting Blah Blah because dot dot dot... Maybe the conviction of the callers might shine some light on these Swingers bumbling about in the dark... I always like hearing experts not dumb-downed drongos who can't make their own minds up and just waffle on with slogans they might have half heard... They'd be So-Called Liberal slogans come to think if it...
The Chasers, nee CNNNNN, has been superb on this election, but why so little air time? They seem to have been the only TV program to really get to the core issues in the Fox Believe US send up genre, and those running words on the bottom of the screen are just fantastic, meanwhile I just can't see why that big goof on Nein, the fat man with the notepad? Has he ever lived in the real World? And then there's Red Kerry, cripes what has he been on? He seems to pursue some non-issue about how the Parties run their campaigns rather than any issues, like last night he was ankle biting about the timing of releasing announcements, like what the hell has that to do with anything? It's the prerogative of the Parties to run the campaign, Red Kezza is supposed to get the Pollies drooling out their Political Speak, letting them run off at the mouth, hang themselves out to dry, and let the Public make up their minds, but Red Kezza seems to have some dog bone to chew over, which means bugger all, and gets everyone nowhere...
Just lately I produced an extract of the history of the Little Bigoted Twit as has been written on the Walls of the Cave, so to speak, it's comprehensive on how The Little Bigoted Twit PM ruined Australia and used all his tricks and wedges and divides and targeting of his perceived enemies like the Public Services and anything Universal and Caring, just the litany of lies and tricks and disdain and vote buying and his whole tenure of misleading Australia, but it's there for the history of it all... It's here Little Bigoted Twit PM – Seven Inglorious Years...
So the Little Devil You Know got the nod in Australia, going to prove something, but something I just don't want to know... Yuck, if only there was another Planet where drivelling conservative idiots didn't get the vote...
So now it's this new xtian mob having sway in the Senate as well, what a disaster, the people of Australia, such suckers for the spin and spew, and eager enough to do a Jihad on the neighbours... So we have a country where the Conservative vote condones the evil nature of the Little Devil We Know and bends the knee to their Alter of Commerce, and pay their 15% on top...
And the post mortems squirm through the quagmire likes pigs in muck, those blathering arrogant Neo-Con spin spreaders are having a field day while the Labor Party has only the inspiration of the Labor Light on the Hill shining in their eyes and ringing in their ears from Latham's concession speech... At least he represented the Opposition valiantly and put principles and higher moral values, and floated the decency platforms to protect Medicare and the Aged and the Public Schools and the Environment, and so he has stayed true, and spoke more of the Truth as politics goes, it's the sad fact that Australian voters who supported these religious right wing ratbags have lissened to the mediocre media and took the dummy...
So roughly half the electorates who voted against the Little Devil's Government which adds up to a lot of decent people, just don't get a look in, it's a fault in the voting system to have this one person per electorate who often have more people against them than for them, the Hare Clark system in Canberra and Tasmania state elections at least gives people a representative in their Multi member electorates to go and see and champion their cause, like what do anti-government people do when they want to see their Member of Parliament who is one of the despised?
Besides the future will hold such a swag of conservative moves to hobble the Senate and sell Telstra and pass all that right wing claptrap legislation, so Australia will be changed for the worse... When an election gets decided on Fear Campaigns it's always the wrong ones who have the So-Called win... This Little Devil will now be the closest thing to a Dictator that Australia has ever had, a one man band with willing hatchet-men to do the dirty on Australia, and when the bubble bursts it will all the bigger mess, so do we have to go through some dramatic suffering that always follows these periods of the Right Wing ascendancy's, for everything that goes up the one true God Gravity makes sure of the rest... Always keep your feet on the ground, just have to watch out that the Little Messiah doesn't fall on you, personally, so you better live in the fear of that...
Now for a three year wash-up and a mountain of speculation and possibilities and bets and predictions, so the first almighty crack will be wonderful, and then there's Malcolm the Cow-Like Bull all ready and rearing to be Prime Minister you'd think, he ought to get a good run in the rumours, and big-headed arrogance ought to burst out pretty quick and the Screams to the empty galleries in the Senate when the rubber stamp gets inked up, so two rubber stamps ought to make the Parliament redundant for the most part, it will be the undermining and jockeying for the changeover that will take precedence, who will it be? Who will have the numbers who will blow the whistles? Gees the intolerance levels will rise and we'll go sky high...
And then when will the big bust come and the economic bubble bursts, the turn around and who will get the blame this time? So being scared and having a paranoid electorate will bring about the transfer of public assets to some few conservative rich pigs, the electorate scabbed and can now lay back and get ripped off like never before, and only after all the suffering from some Neo-depression will the swing back arrive, but it will... .
One of the men who've made the sad realisation about how horrible Australians have become, at least half of them, the ones who support that bullying style of selfish Government you get with the Little Coalition of the Conservatives, is poor old Hugh McKay, the social analyst who has been doing those round table, face to face interviews in his style of more deeply probing the psyche I spose, but poor Hugh has been demoralised with the New Australians, saying as how it's the Selfish Gene at work, that hard work spin ethic, it's all about Me-ism, and The rest of you can go and drop off the planet for all I care, the You're fired, Goodbye, You're the Loser, Get Used to it, and Don't expect anything from me, and my taxes, and Lock 'em up and throw away the key, while they live in the big house and mortgage belt, and heavy 4WD and have no talkies with the neighbours unless it's to compare big boy's toys, and the living in isolated consumption cocoons, and only come out to shop...
So poor Hugh turned to music in the church near our favourite St James Ethics Centre, and proselytises the universal morals like Treat anyone like you'd want to be treated type thing, be decent and helpful, and generous, and tolerant, and care for people with less generous abundances of intelligence, but Hugh is the heretic, way out on his own limb, Yep, I know how he feels...
And the question to ask all these timber workers is What are ya gonna do when all the trees are gone? What will they do then? Like there's no timber workers left anywhere else in the world where they used to work, sorry work hard, I meant to say, hard work and work hard, I just love it, and don't they just love hard work and saying as how that's what they attribute their exuberant happiness to, just hard work that's what, those old time timber workers had jobs and fed their families and now when all the trees are gone what are they doing now? All over the world? Eating dust basically and the countryside which used to be the of the Garden of Eden variety is now the drought ridden, bush fire prone, eroded, useless, destined for deserts of their crazy god's world, not too smart are they in the long run...
Take a look at how they religiously cut down all the trees in the Biblical lands and now are fighting over lumps of rock, cause that's hard work too, hmmm... This is becoming hard work... Although the ride around the lake today with Gumma wasn't too hard, not hard at all really, just glided along basically, kept behind her cause she was bit sick, she crosses in front to let you know when the work gets too hard so we can slacken off, that's what she enjoyed today, slackening off and taking it easy, hard work hardly got a second thought come to think of it, but that's too much like hard work...
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ni·hil·ism n. 1. A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. 2. The belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions is necessary for future improvement. |
Y'know, I been thinking about the Nihilism? of the America of today, from within the USA, it's a sick society again, they've done it before, I first read about it when I studied The Crucible at school, and then you see the McCarthyism years in the movies and newsreels and hear about it later when the sickness subsided but it's always there in the USA, they pick on people and Demonise them...
And then when I had Foxtel satellite, I saw the news from Fox and the voice of the new age O'Reilly guy doing that Righteousness And Fairness Turned On It's Head Show, this guy would harangue the decent side of old politics and use all the put-downs, time after time, and then Categorise someone as a Demonised Class, bit like how the Scapegoats in history copped it, and treats them like they were below contempt...
And I also saw the American TV sit-coms a bit, never could watch the Simpson's though, or Seinfeld till his last show made me take notice, god knows what goes on in Sex With The City, and I saw the USA descend into a bitchy selfish society, nothing like Leave It To Beaver... More like Leave It Alone Beaver…
And at the same time that strange Bible Belt stripe they had across the bottom of the States, that insufferable dogma of the religious right, and the glass eyed grown-ups in some hallucination of a weird movie, so unreal to see these people somehow manipulated by their preachers, they had a devilish way of doing it, the promise and threat of the cultish life, and making money selling prayers, and then getting organised onto school councils and government bodies and now the Presidency, and it's just sick, there's no qualifications and ability required you just have to roll your eyes and put on a false wacky smile and declare you been born again, and they go so over the top it becomes a drag to bring them down by ordinary people, besides they act like a flock of sheep and do the bidding of their crazy lord as they see it and hear it from their special corruption preachers...
So it's The Crucible again, these mobs of wearisomely fundamental idiots grasping the power of the mob and riding roughshod over all the opposition, lissening in to their real shock-jock preachers on the radios and TV, into the homes, and then into the schools and influencing everything, not driven by commonsense and correctness, but from a religious zeal to dominate and grow stronger in their own eyes and get arrogant and intolerant and be cruel and dismissive and gung ho,
So they go off on Crusades, like into Iraq to deal with the devil, but in reality their manipulators are pointing the finger of their god idol at Iraq and stealing them blind, and putting the Islam world under control, and taking over the Islamic countries, and it's the Crusades again, all through history they go off on some genocidal crusade...
So without any evidence in facts and research and scientific testing, this new American Xtian Mindset goes to war on the things they don't like, it's really mob rule the way Xtians do it, and so do the other religions, now using democracy where church and state are supposed to separate, that's why they should never be allowed in the Governments, ever, anywhere, they are the trouble makers themselves, they see themselves as being the boss and making everyone be like them or get the shunt...
And that same sickness is growing in Australia from the same type of people, those born again xtian fundamentalists who get a buzz from being in a mob, that's just what happened in the last election, the Sheep in the Mob trampled over anything in it's path, it's powerful that sickness, it's a brain damaging thing, cause it gets hard wired, and I spose the wars kill it off for a while till it gets another stoking and the Ratbag Right media has stoked and stoked it...
There has been a change in attitude to being decent and it's been replaced by this xtian crusade mental illness, so they throw out the rules and just invoke the Slogans, and invent derogatory names for their targets to Demonise them, and go off into mindlessness, they get some sort of wacky inspiration and fall into step, and they are the clay for those media modellers, the redneck shock jocks and spin doctors who whisper in their ears half the time, and rant at their victims for the rest, and sell them the dummies... And they suck up, boy do they suck up... It's a baseless derision too, it has that contempt and disrespect, it was written into the Nazis aggression... So how do you get them to vote for anything sensible ever? Christ what a job... Makes you want to resign...
Yeah Senator Faulkiner, he done good, so he's been in the old Senate's Committees and examining and delving and exposing all the crude cheats and tricks and cover ups from the Little Conservative's pit of vipers, and always impressing with the decency in the old Labor, and now he's moving on, did a good job while he was there though, hard work being good nowadays...
I got up early and did gardens and things and then drifted back and visitors turned up at the door and we all sat around and talked for a while and then more came and there was pizza, and then the cakes and then they was all gone... And it's back with Gumma, she's a good dog, a good investment as well, and she makes for having something to deal with...
Yeah was talking with the visitors dropping in about the political results, with a small swing to the incumbents so they end up with both Houses under their Conservative control, I had been reviewing and having to reassess who should be looking after what, like the Labor Party reckons it doesn't know who it stands for, like is it For the unions and if so if the timber workers are Unionists then what? So I was having a look at the definitions of the Ethics involved, and histories of Individualism, Liberalism, Conservatism, and Capitalism, to the Miserable Consumerism of today... It's another diversion...
Recriminations with Labor in the election campaign never does anything for me, I can't stand all those people who look to blame something or other and act as if they knew everything before it happened and then we all know they didn't, but the Christine Milne debacle is a real stone in the boot for me, where the Labor preferences went ahead of the Greens to that damned xtian wanker party Family Fist, these are the same dunderheads who buggered up politics in America...
So Labor put Family Fist ahead of Christine Milne of the Greens, who is one of the most valuable politicians on this Threatened Earth, and now Labor is responsible for some misguided tactical manoeuvrer which has denied us of the proper decent moral thing to do and now balance of power in the Senate is even more tipped... It's bluddy disgusting...
How could Labor put a right wing xtian fundie ahead of the Greens? It must be that Labor has people within it who don't see that as completely wrong-headed, I hope it gets pointed out to them and they leave and join the So-Called Libs or Nats or FF's...
And the reason Labor is under-whelming in appeal is exactly because they have slid to the right and become indistinguishable and now undistinguished by deserting the principles and chasing shadows, Labor should stick to it's guns until the job is done, cause when the time comes for them it will be because the other side has fallen flat on it's face, and so will Labor want to be alongside with them then? Tides of the good times ebb and flow, pretty soon this good time tide will be leaving lots of people high and dry and they will want Labor and dependable principles of the Welfare State to again move in as the safety net...
Labor should make itself ready to be the safety net and plan for dealing with an economy which will collapse with the rest of the world we are more and more tied into, and all those world trade people will be turning inwards, sourcing goods here on shore and we wont be able to supply anything for ourselves unless Labor sets up some core industries to keep us up with things...
As it is we are just a cargo cult high debt society waiting for the next shiploads of foreign goods and building up huge trade deficits where we have to import everything we need, and becoming dependent on others overseas who can easily strangle us of scarce supplies, any old profit of doom can tell you that... And they will all say they predicted it too...
After the Pub and Café in the bush, way out there where the slickers are moving in on the land, we went to the Poet's Palace for a session... So the guitarists went into Muso tech talk half the time, while I went fiddling into Search For A Note by ear, it was all a bit faithful to the music though... But it was good to go on till 4:00 am so then home... So those guitarists just can't help themselves delving into weird techniques that no one else hears but for the tune, it's another rabbit hole for Alice in Wonderland, if ya ask me but no one ever does...
And this morning did a Country Field Day, so much equipment to sell, and so many stalls, was good... Machinery everywhere, and you can bet most of it imported in the cargo cult mentality, but there was a huge diversion into Water Tanks and storage methods, and pumps and water saving irrigation, and the crowds that turned up at $10 per head, they must have raked in a fortune... And so many alternatives in the exotic animals, but for it all there was not one kangaroo or wallaby, let alone possum and wombat, so while all the moaning and groaning going on with the normalcy of drought, there's all the millions of kangaroos hopping about in the background, meals on the move, all they have to do is switch to Aussie meat rather than alien cows and sheep...
So we have to deal with the short term mindset that the New Australians want, like the bubble pumped up, spend, spend and borrow to the hilt, and bugger social services, and social anything, cause they are a pack of individuals seeking self aggrandisement, flocking into the bigger house and bigger everything, and more and more consumer throw-away stuff, and the growth industry to go along with it is the self storage units where their goodies can be stored off site... So it's pump up the volume and sell away the Telstra family jewels to the richest individuals and the rest pay as you go on borrowed money, all expecting to cash in on real estate one day like the Telstra sell outs, so they can go down market and retire? Is that it? Get out the foreclosure forms...
So forget your Greenies and Labor and anything universal, just buy whatever relieves the Aspirational pangs... What are they gonna do when they want to be looked after? There is no struggle street, there is no poverty, there's just worthless trash lower classes to despise, who don't deserve anything, and the indigenous are rotting away on petrol sniffing anyway so there wont be anything at all on their consciences to be sorry for, cause there never was in the first place, so while the balloon is pumped up all we need now is some Little Prick to burst it... Ok, Mark Latham, here's your chance to give them the needle...
The Australian Capital Territory Elections went to Labor with a big popular vote for John Stanhope the Chief Minister, it's a model democracy, the Hare Clarke System of Multiple Member Electorates with proportional representation and preference voting, which is compulsory, and a Hobson rotation of the names on ballot papers to avoid donkey votes, and it relies on familiarity with names of candidates, the big winners are personally picked out by the voters, so sitting MLA's who don't impress lose support while someone else in the same Party might get a swing to them, so it has a reality in the results, they have Canberra divided up into three electorates with 5 members in two electorates and 7 in the biggest one, that makes 17 in the Parliament, so it looks like Labor picked up 9 seats to have a majority Government, unusual in this system, but the Stanhope Labor man has gained a huge respect and personal following, he has commitment and speaks out where angels fear to tread, so that's one lot of good news...
The other good news is purely of the seeing others suffer kind, like the So-Called Liberals in the Federal Parliament are talking of appointing the Black Bishop Bronnie as the Speaker of the House, to impose the lash of her forked tongue and Dominatrix Rigour on her poor underlings, I spose they'll need spew buckets in the blood bin... But it will make people hate them more, a good thing for democracy next time... Just think every sitting of Parliament will be like a scene from the Rocky Horror Show, just a step to the right right right right right right etc...
I picked up the Concertina last Friday, and bought an Amp as well, the Concertina is a little beauty, it's mahogany and green and red and has twenty buttons, there are no wrong notes, it's always tuned and it already has been fun, and so there it sits, needs lessons...
Gumma can't stand the concertina, she started howling with it this morning, and is off her food again, I also got some bird whistles for Gumma, she really will hear them, there's one you can trill with a plunger, it really has a big sound and only $10 for three, I'll give one to the neighbour as a whoopee caller...
And there's been a new Human Species, Pygmy Homo Hobbits living just 12k years ago perhaps, and isolated on Flores an island of Indonesia, brains smaller, like 360g as against 500g+ but there were all these neatly shaped stone tools, and evidence of hunting small elephants, and then the same place has the Komodo Dragons, maybe adapted to living with humans much earlier and not made extinct like all the other stuff... Looked human though by the eye sockets and face and teeth, for the talking and planning, negotiating, in size they were all proportional to Homo Erectus, so Homo Hobbit is new evidence for the religious dingbats to explain away, I wonder what they'll come up with, was their god a midget?
And at the same time pictures of another atmosphere from Titan, a moon of Saturn, I wonder what we'll see.... Pygmy Titans? And the speculation about similarities with Earth and possible life in oceans, or is there? So we wait, bound to planet Earth and not free to wander elsewhere, bound by Gravity, and treating this place like a tip, even the newly discovered Homo Hobbits had that monster of fire in their tiny hands, they may have been small but they wielded the power of fire over all other living things, life can get burnt out... Makes you realise how much ideologies like Competition Policy are so bluddy stupid for this Intelligent Planet, fancy relying on greed to succeed into the future, that's the last thing you need for a Smart Earth to live on, and it's apelike people like George Dubya-Dubya-III that lowers the Intelligence level to Planet of the Apses...
Must've woke with the sun again yesterday, so early, but I went out with Gumma on the bike around the back in the bush and down to the lake, she had so much energy, but still she got tired a bit as well, we went down around the peninsular on the lake to where you can see the dam, there were funny little happenings like that Mr Perfect Mountie with his military dog, he let her off for a run with Gumma and they took off, Gumma brought the dog over to play at the table then they took off, Gumma came back but the Mounty's dog didn't, so the Mountie went striding off, whacking his own leg with the strap... And then when some stupid woman made a fuss and picked her stupid little dog up who yapped at Gumma, there was a furry fuss, and Gumma took off to catch me up, but went the wrong way, it took ages for her to retrace her steps and find me...
At last we are seeing the dichotomy of religion in the USA elections, how poor dumb George Dubya-Dubya-III has pursued a religious zealot certainty of how bluddy easy it is to be simple... Whereas the other half of the Republicans are mortified to have this twit running up a huge bill chasing shadows and demonising everything in sight, and instead of staying out of the world's problems in the Republican way, George Dubya-Dubya-III has them shooting off in all directions, doing his conversions on the Demonised, another Inquisition on Guantanomo, another son of god born again president with that mad gleam in his eye, and the thing is, they vote for him!!! Duh!!! Just how crazy can those religious zealots get, so his conversion of Iraq to democracy is another way of bringing freedom from attack, Just vote for who we tell ya, and you'll be OK, OK? Cause we got god on our side... And getting us into a deeper mess and creating a much more difficult future....
Ron Suskind, he's the one with the religious dichotomy, he reckons Kerry will get more of the motivated turnout, I bluddy well hope so.... But for all the real effort of the Democrat's to get the vote out, those bluddy religious just have to invoke god's swill and scare the flock, herd them like blithering sheep into the booths, and then challenge anyone they don't like the look of like, perhaps, gay married african americans from mexico?
And Gumma is relaxed and playful, if a bit sick? I wonder if it’s the Lake water? What a terrible shame if it is such that your dog can't drink from the Lake, christ, what have we done to this planet Earth.... I don't want to repeat myself, much...
Yes the sun's out, it's cool, and the fiddle awaits the concertina awaits, and the neighbours get to hear, it's like putting on a concert playing out of the amp, it's good though...
I have found that my A string is completely stripped, and I hadn't had a new one on that long, christ I must chew them up, they wear out C D E on the A string, so that's where I'm playing the most, middle C, and up...
The concertina is so easy to play by ear with, just feel around and innovate a throb, I played that whole MIDI tape, Celtic stuff with JigZag on it, and just had a go, it has notes separated by fifths? Can that be right?
I wonder if I can smooth my A string out? It's supposed to be Perlon a myriad of nylons, strings, chain molecules, not steel wire, say Ferris iron lattices, this stuff is long carbon chain, molecules locked with the force? So maybe that's better? Molecules are so magic... So I have an unwinding aluminium strip, sticking worn out edges up to scratch into my skin, but when I land straight on a note I don't feel it unless I go sliding up and down for flats and sharps...
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