The outrage of having a public broadcaster whose righteousness can't be questioned .

Philip Adams still has a huge audience, but  he still  says nothing in his weekly review in The Australian.
Yes  he might say something nice about someone or some cause he has mauled ( like the church ) but really he's a menace ; promoting his own causes.Pretending to do 'science'
What a waste of his time and those who read him . All those years and he could have a promoted a cause that worked . This week he talks about all the work he put into a cause that noone else thought was credible .
Paradoxically the 2 of them were chasing windmills .


How many others of this sort does our public broadcaster cultivate ?
There is no limit to the lack of maturity amongst those who choose to know about everything  but don't discipline themselves to know anything about anything .
These members of the Skimpole club console themselves with the fact that their knowledge is encyclopedic , Pity the depth of their understanding is microscopic ( unlike those who practice science,  and don't worship it as the technocolor yawn merchants do.
On the surface the splash in the daily bird bath  looks very interesting,,  So Australia staggers on , playing with technology, and talking about innovation without really investing in the hard work of it .  These people take up,  like Skimpole jobs where they are fed and watered for their fact filled excitement about what is new .The real engine of growth is too boring and long winded for them.

The ABC don't realize that while chasing their own causes they can and do miss the real causes of note  .Some old dinosaur sectors and specific scientists ( practical ones ) hardly get a mention . Even the sound ABC (Hutcheons and Ahns :"one 2 ones and fame "ones largely miss the quiet ones , not right at all . Jut chasing the wind
 The ABC club  don't believe in God ( even though He pays them ) so they become gods in their own right - and right in their own eyes ; rightousness
 Unaware as Orwell warned us that the real products of innovation will arrive at a destination not covered by the media .

The progressives are straining  to be too far in front to see where the momentum really is . 
Ever  learning but never coming to a working knowledge of what works --a nd not reporting it . As Skimpole says of himself ..   "I am only a child".
If a child, then give the job to someone who respects the process of mature learning .
Put some experienced scientists into our ABC

Attention seeking children need a scold

The one who cries wolf does not really know risk . He only knows the name of the fear .
Fine if this behavior comes from children - its natural enough.
We all know the scary nature of that noise when it comes from a child . That's fine - we will teach em out of it
But some kids never grow up.


What if half the country is run by noisy children ?, Those like Skimpole who know so much that they command attention , but know so little they can't help manage the simplest of risks .
This group know so much they can hide,  as they  have learned to do ,  behind their  encyclopedic volume of facts.  Skipholes are nothng if not well educated and well spoken  everywhere advocating fact checking but nowhere to be seen on the ground with the implementation of their ideas . Like Skimpole they live inside the house . Worse they are parasites on the productive in the house

Watch out for them and the tendency to be a cynical smart arse yourself









Denial  is far distraction and projection are more common in our lives than we are prepared to accept . Our experience with young children should have warned us , The terrible thin is there are children out there who have never gron For example We  can all  hide our cynicism with a veneer of care,  as so many characters in Dickens do . Swimming in shit that is often well dressed  (T. Dalrymple )
Its easy to project denial on others when , for example  95% of the people say " you don't care about the amount of hot air we generate  "of  the 5% of Climate Change deniers.  Not so easy when  a child in our house reminds us we too are guilty.
Cheeky brat know alls at age 14 are one thing  ( quite normal ) , but NAbrats at 40 are worse than useless - unrepentant  they just live to erode and corrode
Presumably Skim pole was told many times to stop living on his cultivated cynicism. excusing his false fears and incompetency and lazy life and thinking when it suited him .
The Skimpole club has grown -many do you know who hide their lazy and noisy parasitism in a cloud of cynical conversational-ism; such   people have no trouble finding "friends ".
The fact is that not only was he a noise making nuisance his parasitism and compliance in nuisance made him even more unproductive  than he would have been if he didn't cultivate friends or at least other cynics who could hide with him . Easy to buy some more food for talk from the frenzy that reigns when its all talk - who knows or cares whether it really goes anywhere - so often point scoring for pedants 
We all ought to examine ourselves to see whether such a wasted life ( and silly knowing smile of safe cynicism)   is something we will be remembered for .

Those children who never grow up need a scold from more than one Esther if they not to break the bank in their own home . let alone the one we share .

Democracies at Risk - Australia

One state of 6 Australian States
-  Victoria 









Of  37 federal seats  only 5 are rural and are very large  with 6 regional areas making a total of 11 people representing the majority of Victoria ;  26 people representing the cities in the centre of this picture.

Background - the victory of the pedants over the principled. Labors insistence on the myopic dominance of one vote one value has meant for those living in the wide brown land that they are under the tyranny of being told what the regions problems/challenges/opportunities  are by those in the cities who simply do not know them .

Yes we have had a miracle here in Australasia in May 2019( and there are bit challenges elsewhere ) but here is ours alive well and still to threat our home and ability to reason well together down under 

A growing threat 
I was drawn into politics simply because even though I had one of the best jobs in the world working with some of the most productive people in the world, the city started telling us how to look after the earth. That would have been fine if the city knew something we didn't ( and
I didn't have a post grad from our great education system ) but nothing in 3 decades of dealing with the most arrogant and ignorant alliance of ideologues I know means  means Greenlabor should back off and show some respect .
Publishing for decades at http://thiselection.blogspot.com  we have fully expected the show to be over  years ago .

The battle is certainly lost as the Vic state level for decades with Labor now settled into a comfortable  sense that they know something about something that requires our best skills and competencies. The comfortable team of reactionaries does not realize that if not done well  attempted governance in ignorance risks  the lives and minds and careers of those who are competent to deal with complex environmental and production  challenges.

Will finish this tomorrow.
see the injustice here in maps  70 % of the seats are in cities except  in Qld where  the regions still have greater than  60% of the population in them.  Of the 30 to 40 seats in each of the eastern states only a few are rural and regional  .

A guide for the young voter -

  Passionate young people - there is hope for the future
What my generation don't get is that thinking young people don't trust the parties - esp the majors .
Why do those mature enough to know better get sucked in when the Majors pitch their story to get power , Innocent Christians,  in particular seem vulnerable to the naming of best intention when they should know that behind the surface can lurk great evil  .

To help them--- I have drafted the guide for the young voter https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hn2f1GFyXzzxVqoYNWw2Gshjkq-Ndhn4dNp0HrM4QhQ/edit?usp=sharing

Good thinking mate !

The maddest things ever are done because of guilt

Noone ever talks about the guilt factor   so are we just giving up things for the sake of giving up things ? "
Greenlabor in 2019 are talking about US giving up everything to stop our carbon burning  from killing us

Guilt is clearly in the air over fossil fuel use , but noone is talking confession -- so we must expect sacrifice - the other bloke? . Noone has to die do they ?

JB Peterson reminds us of the great murder danger  by talking to the formative frame in western culture of the first murderer , Cain .    offerings to the Gods -
According to that view , its not how much you give up that gets us to heaven but whether the sacrifice works , so far we have got lots of insulation and old tech solar cells but little more but  greenlabor is hinting that  we will kill the problem -- whatever the cost


With guilt affecting us all , How then can anyone believe anybody or any party  when Climate change is mentioned . People are going to do and say the most ridiculous things  because all  western adults from all parties feel guilty .
Enough to kill ? Certainly enough to talk crap and piles of it .
Some parties even talk
of murdering our way of,life without admitting to or the real cost of trying to live without coal and pretending coal is really different from other fuels we all need and use ---

We do best to admit to guilt before we go stopping our way of living .

Why is the Trump phenomenon so common?

Q Why is there so much polarization and indifference to arguments from "the otherside" ? A Because we have believed too much in resolving arguments with another argument ? You heard it first on Emperors Academy

It seems to me that --- its not the polarisation or strength of arguments that is troubling the West, but the failure of so many arguments to give strength to any argument .

As Greg Sheridan , following Dostoyevsky . says in his “ God is good for you “ if you don’t put God in the picture , you haven’t got a picture : nothing to frame, nothing to gain

People are pushing too hard with rationale when rationale is never enough. We all need to stop being so Greek and think more like the Hebrews http://thinkhebrew.blogspot.com

Because this new belief in the power of mere logic doesn't , work people are short circuiting good arguments and inserting power words to try and win moral points : annoying, non objective and often a waste of time.

Take an example of polarization that cuts deep - eating meat in the West .

Many westerners now attach "the survival of the planet " or the " cruelty to animals ;" to the paradox of animals needing to eat each other. We can build up a picture using such arguments but is it a consistent picture? No it is not - Many are NOW creating sins associated with meat eating of any kind.

Clearly from my point of view as an ecologist, the former argument is just not true to nature , Animals eat each other , the reason why humans shouldn't must come from a god camp of some kind ? Cruelty is not a God issue – it’s a man issue. Confusion about connections is now the new norm. . we could go on

I therefore conclude as a scientist that many people only talk science (because its supposed to have moral value ) but do not practice it - esp because they can't or won't follow a long argument or recognise the limitations and complexities of causation research .

When faced with their reluctance to go on the long journey of logic they chose the shortest route ....... and make you do all the work.

The lack of respect for sound science in practice is profound and was predicted by our best scientific minds nearly 100 years ago .

The chickens are coming home to roost in unhappy gatherings of god like roosters ; who only claim their own ownership of higher perches.

http://misplacedconcreteness.blogspot.com

Unsustainable attention and agenda seeking authors in Media

It used to only be the gutter press who would add an adjective to an accurate description word- esp in relation to a person.

Now we can't even watch  the ABC news without having our emotions played with by the writers careless reporting . Some on the ABC news crew are writing their own death warrants with thinking people by being so careless and presumtously self righteous .
I won' t bore you with key offenders,or more probin, but several of them are prominent political reporters with the ABC.
They are not reporters,  they are careless commentators. They are not straight up to your face but snide. Maybe  news producers  need  a shove?

When Cardinal Pell's term in office ended today variuos news services described it as a sacking and a removal.
The highly reactive and now moral authority press will be judged for showing no respect for ANYONE who takes on a task of leadership.
--News to most of them would be that authority goes with the weighty responsibility ( not all glory!).Misleading young people and making them far too cynical - in name of "questioning "
---News to them that they now think they are self appointed moral guardians - and news to them that their tool kit is limited to lawfare,and shaming ( thanks Linda )

What is wrong with our eduction system that the young and the old BB don't understand the principles of libel?
 Its quite evident that some reporters are carrying a message of hate
Reporters should be sacked for inappropriate hate speech.
Sadly  the press don't know what is going on .That they maybe part of the malaie ; the confusion over whats moral ?
Sadly the press have become the slower class who never quite get why THE CROWN is a great story and a great true story.