The mental rape of the fare paying public by the cricket umpires
Let the game continue. Day 3
Sadly the public, yes that is you dear taxpayers, suffer from cognitive dissonance. In laymen's terms it is the feeling of uncomfortable tension which comes from holding two conflicting thoughts in the mind at the same time.
For example; many of you know you are being ripped off blindly by the government and it's bogus taxes, fees and revenue milking scams that bleed your pockets endlessly, yet you somehow think it is necessary and appropriate. You believe and know that road safety is important and is a serious matter, yet you also know that a camouflaged speed camera or Inspector Plod hiding behind a gum tree at the bottom of a hill in a non-populated area does SFA for road safety! Enter cognitive dissonance.
No difference when it comes to the 'mystique of aviation'. Most people have some type of fear of flying. It takes the form of butterfly's in the tummy every time you drive to the airport, sometimes you get the squirts before boarding your flight, for some it is a mild sweat and the trembles, for others there is a need for Valium and a strong Scotch, some go to counselling, and others turn off the TV for a month prior to flying so that they don't stumble across an Air Crash Investigators episode showing an inverted nose-diving 737 about to impact the ground at a speed faster than a bullet from which not even your teeth will be found! So you blindly accept the CAsA safety rhetoric, squillions of your dollars spent on executive sojourns to Montreal and other desirable holiday destinations, you accept expensive airfares due to ASA's outrageous airline charges for 'safe airspace travel' managed by a blue suit/purple tie wearing pompous bell-end of an individual, because you suffer from cognitive dissonance (and probably a bit of Stockholm syndrome as well). You accept CAsA's plea for more money and swallow the bearded Gibson's crafted statements as to why ADSB is such a 'must', and why people like Dick Smith are just noise makers trying to undermine CAsA who are the 'font of all things safety'. In an act reminiscent of Linda Lovelace you swallow every word the handsome Minister expels regarding the safety of the fare paying public and how everything the government does is for the good of the human race, and without gagging may I add. Enter cognitive dissonance.
The government knows your fears. So they trot out some 'trusted folk' to ease that fear and play on your emotional side. A dapper looking Minister who appears to be in touch with your inner self. Captain of the team. A proud AVM Skidmore and Sir Anus Houston, proud military men who built incredible careers based upon leadership. Great co-Captains. Horsehit! Greasy government pole climbers who achieved nothing of merit other than wearing down their taste buds by licking Ministers and politicians arseholes and making them cleaner than a doctors sterile surgery. But the public needs these figure heads to remove any doubt about their fear about safety, their concerns about the unknown, their not understanding the 'mystique of aviation'. Enter cognitive dissonance.
Perhaps the 'mystique of aviation' should be exchanged of the 'psychology of aviation'? Either way it is a cash cow for the Government, abused and manipulated to fulfil their financial lusts and reap in the almighty dollar. We aren't talking conspiracy theories here, chemtrails or alien mind control. No, we are talking good old fashioned high level psychological smoke and mirrors which, as history has proven, easily captures the unwary sheeple who wander around in their Alice in Wonderland shoes clicking them every time the Matrix is exposed.
Not long to go now before Australians are accepting and fully embracing of the 'American way of life' - fast food existence, Presidential reality show, trillions of dollars in debt, and a house full of politicians with Botox and dyed hair treating their country like it is some kind of Hollywood fake production. I believe we are halfway there.
"Safe mind masturbation for all"
P2 - Gobbles sensational post, definitely one for the AP archives...
The AP bonus (trough fund) cheque for 5 cents and a complimentary key (valid for a year) for the TimTam cupboard is in the mail... 
Let the game continue. Day 3
Sadly the public, yes that is you dear taxpayers, suffer from cognitive dissonance. In laymen's terms it is the feeling of uncomfortable tension which comes from holding two conflicting thoughts in the mind at the same time.
For example; many of you know you are being ripped off blindly by the government and it's bogus taxes, fees and revenue milking scams that bleed your pockets endlessly, yet you somehow think it is necessary and appropriate. You believe and know that road safety is important and is a serious matter, yet you also know that a camouflaged speed camera or Inspector Plod hiding behind a gum tree at the bottom of a hill in a non-populated area does SFA for road safety! Enter cognitive dissonance.
No difference when it comes to the 'mystique of aviation'. Most people have some type of fear of flying. It takes the form of butterfly's in the tummy every time you drive to the airport, sometimes you get the squirts before boarding your flight, for some it is a mild sweat and the trembles, for others there is a need for Valium and a strong Scotch, some go to counselling, and others turn off the TV for a month prior to flying so that they don't stumble across an Air Crash Investigators episode showing an inverted nose-diving 737 about to impact the ground at a speed faster than a bullet from which not even your teeth will be found! So you blindly accept the CAsA safety rhetoric, squillions of your dollars spent on executive sojourns to Montreal and other desirable holiday destinations, you accept expensive airfares due to ASA's outrageous airline charges for 'safe airspace travel' managed by a blue suit/purple tie wearing pompous bell-end of an individual, because you suffer from cognitive dissonance (and probably a bit of Stockholm syndrome as well). You accept CAsA's plea for more money and swallow the bearded Gibson's crafted statements as to why ADSB is such a 'must', and why people like Dick Smith are just noise makers trying to undermine CAsA who are the 'font of all things safety'. In an act reminiscent of Linda Lovelace you swallow every word the handsome Minister expels regarding the safety of the fare paying public and how everything the government does is for the good of the human race, and without gagging may I add. Enter cognitive dissonance.
The government knows your fears. So they trot out some 'trusted folk' to ease that fear and play on your emotional side. A dapper looking Minister who appears to be in touch with your inner self. Captain of the team. A proud AVM Skidmore and Sir Anus Houston, proud military men who built incredible careers based upon leadership. Great co-Captains. Horsehit! Greasy government pole climbers who achieved nothing of merit other than wearing down their taste buds by licking Ministers and politicians arseholes and making them cleaner than a doctors sterile surgery. But the public needs these figure heads to remove any doubt about their fear about safety, their concerns about the unknown, their not understanding the 'mystique of aviation'. Enter cognitive dissonance.
Perhaps the 'mystique of aviation' should be exchanged of the 'psychology of aviation'? Either way it is a cash cow for the Government, abused and manipulated to fulfil their financial lusts and reap in the almighty dollar. We aren't talking conspiracy theories here, chemtrails or alien mind control. No, we are talking good old fashioned high level psychological smoke and mirrors which, as history has proven, easily captures the unwary sheeple who wander around in their Alice in Wonderland shoes clicking them every time the Matrix is exposed.
Not long to go now before Australians are accepting and fully embracing of the 'American way of life' - fast food existence, Presidential reality show, trillions of dollars in debt, and a house full of politicians with Botox and dyed hair treating their country like it is some kind of Hollywood fake production. I believe we are halfway there.
"Safe mind masturbation for all"
P2 - Gobbles sensational post, definitely one for the AP archives...
The AP bonus (trough fund) cheque for 5 cents and a complimentary key (valid for a year) for the TimTam cupboard is in the mail...