Swamp life

Theodore Dalrymple writing about the increase in overt emotionality that is becoming evident in the Western world today says:

“How is it that the fraudulence of this emotionality, its sheer inauthenticity, not to say mendacity, is invisible to those who indulge in it? Here indeed is a puzzle for psychologists. I am reminded of those people who cannot see the fraudulence of American television evangelists the moment they appear on the screen. It is as if we, or at least some of us, are in the process of becoming people without inwardness, who measure their own feelings by outward manifestations only.”

I would posit that main stream media, TV producers and politicised education departments have all played their part in the promotion of such ‘on your sleeve emoting’. That the whole culture has been building up (or disintegrating) to that moment when the phenomena 'went viral' with the death of Princess Diana and seems to be gathering momentum with each breath we take.

Public figures are promoted or vilified on how they ‘display’ their feelings. Where is that stoicism that used to be a part of our heritage? The dignity afforded our ability to weather the storms and arrows of unfortunate incident and unforeseen calamities. Look at what happened to Lindy Chamberlain, it was said that her lack of outward emotion is what caused many to believe her to be guilty.

 Perhaps we are indeed becoming people who are one inch thick and many miles wide – shallow and insubstantial.
What do we call a river with these characteristics?
A swamp!

Self Flagellation

We are currently witnessing an evolution in the religion of self hatred by the urban elites of Sydney.

Councillors (as I have been reliably informed by a friend who served a number of terms on a large urban municipal council) frequently include the; interfering, nosy, bullying, and occaisionally corrupt bureaucrats who enter into local politics because they believe that they are the ones who have a 'special knowledge' (Gnostic?) and are therefore required to, even compelled one might say, to educate their more uneducated constituents in ways of the true 'faith'.

Thus we are made to suffer the inanities of  ideological claptrap such as that perpetrated by Sydney councillors:

Sydney City Council last night declared the arrival of white settlers to be an “invasion” and wiped the words “European arrival” from official documents.

During a long debate, councillor Marcelle Hoff lodged a petition for councillors to use the term “invasion or illegal colonisation” in policy documents and statements.

Ms Hoff read out dictionary definitions of invasion as “to take possession, to penetrate, to intrude upon, to overrun”.

“They came in and they did not leave,” she said.

However as Ms Hoff is herself one of these white settlers, or 'invaders', wouldn't it then be more convincing if she were to either pack up and return to where her family came from or just sell the proceeds of her 'occupation' and return the money to the 'rightful owners'?

Can no one spot the screaming hypocrisy behind sideshow Bob's philosophy. On the one hand he rails against foreign investors in our mines, yet on the other hand...:

So why shouldn’t we now join vigorous moves in Europe and at the United Nations for a global people’s assembly based on one person, one vote, one value?

So he is comfortable in handing over the entire country to foreign rule just not a small percentage of our business?
This fellow would be a joke running a girl guide group never mind ruling (via poxy proxy) Australia.

UPDATE

North Korea will chair the UN Conference on Disarmament:

The development comes in the same week the UN defended its decision to support Iran’s holding of an international “anti-terrorism” conference — which saw participants declaring that Western powers were the international terrorists.

The UN is not on our side. Kind of obvious, really.

And this is the bunch of Yobos that sideshow Bob is keen for us to be ruled by!

MSM, AGW, PPM and cults in general

Once again the massive hypocrisy of the main stream media is exposed in their relentless pursuit of this Rocco Leo fellow, the leader of what they term the 'doomsday cult'. Whilst I know very little about the alleged cult or its theology and thus do not defend the man or his actions, the whole situation appears to follow similar persecutions of 'religious'  figures seen on more than one occasion in Australia.

Wouldn't I be correct in observing that the Anthropogenic Global Warming cult claims exactly the same doomsday scenario? The only difference is that the AGW cultists claim 'science' is on their side, even though actual science deals with what is observable and the AGW  predictions are based on 100 years hence.

Still reason doesn't seem to hold a high priority in either the MSM or the AGW propaganda. Objectivity and/or truth is pre-post-modernism (PPM???) after all.

Dangerous dreamtime

Although Ann Coulter sometimes seems a little too right wing for my taste, much of what she says in her latest blog makes sense. In particular I found this quote to be relevant to contemporary Australia:

Liberals despise the rule of law because it interferes with their ability to rule by mob. They love to portray themselves as the weak taking on the powerful. But it is the least powerful who suffer the most once the rule of law is gone.

'Liberals' (Labor, Greens etc in Australia) like to put out that they represent the downtrodden and powerless in society, indeed they have built their entire 'spin' cycle on this fiction. Just like the fiction that claims the renewable energy sector is a small cottage industry, whereas it is massive, manipulative, insidious and bloated on subsidies, and its Utopian dreams are inhabited by conmen, speculators, greedy bankers and financiers all with their grubby paws outstretched for a slice of the upcoming handouts and ETS pie.

The news cycle is replete with evidence of attempts by 'progressives' to undermine Australia's current system of laws. The suggested implementation of Sharia law for example, the numerous attempts to obliterate drug laws (whilst hypocritically reinforcing laws against smokers!), the attacks on existing euthanasia and abortion laws, the attack on marriage...name the law and somewhere a progressive will be trying to tear it down in the name of 'progress', modernisation or that staple of the current AGW warmists; 'not being left behind.'
Who are these mystical 'others' that are leaving us behind? Doesn't this mentality strike you as merely another twist on the 'keeping up with the Joneses?'

The ideology behind this goal to undermine the foundational values which have created Australian culture are unashamedly Gramscian(neoMarxist) and the sooner the majority wakes up to this attempt to transmogrify Australia into a totalitarian society ruled by elites the better off we will be.
I trust the rot is not to deeply embedded.
Hopefully the upcoming elevation of the watermelon brigade will wake the average voter up to the reality of this not-so-merry band of Luddites before irreversible damage is done to our culture, economy and judiciary.

Sideshow Bob

This morning, Greens leader Bob Brown told Radio National his party would not be backing the plebiscite call, which he described as a “sideshow”, “tricky” and a “huge waste of taxpayer’s money” …

Phony panic mongerers! (mongrels?)

Mark Steyn writes with an enviable wit which masks a devastating literary 'left'-hook (excuse the pun).

His piece on the self deluded excesses of Obamamania and it's phony panic mongering ends with a most acute observation:

The American Dream, 2011: You pay four bucks a gallon to commute between your McJob and your underwater housing to prop up a spendaholic, grabafeelic, paramilitarised bureaucracy-without-end bankrupting your future at the rate of a fifth of a billion dollars every hour. In a sane world, Americans would be outraged at the government waste. Instead, our elites worry about sea levels. The oceans will do just fine. It's the US that's drowning.

Perhaps you need to read the article in order to understand some of the references, do so, it will not be a waste of your time. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/on-obamavilles-main-street-its-all-bumps-on-the-road-to-recovery/story-e6frg6ux-1226077283006