Musings: 2 poems

By Claude Lorrain - Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artworkhttp://www.mfa.org/collections/object/apollo-and-the-muses-on-mount-helicon-31442, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=466607 Wanting If dying, I would say… burn me. I want an eastern ascent, clouds of me rising. Or stretched on a bier & taken up by fast disappearing avifauna.  Particulates Motes of me winged. carried away Don’t bury me … Continue reading Musings: 2 poems →

The strange attraction of ‘The End of Days’ mindset

Personally, I am attracted to the idea [yes it may just be a conspiracy theory] that the world is ruled by plutocrats who somehow believe they will – when the shit hits the fan – be able to retire to Planet B. Or at least an island they own, or a mountain top somewhere. And there they’ll retire to a bunker and await the rapture, or some such epiphany that miraculously fixes everything and lets them get back to business as usual.

Is the Voice a Labor Party initiative?

I believe that many on the YES side also genuinely believe that the VOICE will help end the 245 year long stasis that is the rusted on legacy of European claiming of this country. That stasis is the enormous and systemic gap between First Nations peoples and the rest of the country. I suspect that NO advocates cannot - whatever their motivations - achieve anything other than NOthing. A NO simply strengthens the rust bond. No-one collects anything and we all slide back to some place behind GO.

A hopefully comic interlude interrogating one of Mr. Brandis’s opinion pieces

Photo by Nicholas Swatz on Pexels.com In a July 9 opinion piece in the Sydney morning Herald, we meet this shouty headline: Left’s identity crisis means Dutton can be a champion for equality. The piece is by the ex Liberal Senator George Brandis; he doesn't disappoint us with opinions we'd never expected from him. Let's … Continue reading A hopefully comic interlude interrogating one of Mr. Brandis’s opinion pieces →

Quotables 2

we are essentially a trusting and positive species; Rousseau’s noble savage somehow tricked by time, and civilisation, into something that is not really human – a distrust of our fellow creatures. Bregman would agree with Camus’s character in The Plague  - one Dr. Rieux – ‘that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.’