03-29-2020, 03:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-30-2020, 06:58 AM by thorn bird.)
Call me a Cynic.
Yeah well, I guess I am, very hard not to be in these troubled times.
History has always been interesting to me, there are many lessons we can learn from it, yet that cynic in me cannot forget that a large part of history is built on Myth and legends there is also the truth that history is by and large written by the victor, rarely the loser. Nevertheless, generally, there are kernels of truth in it.
Trawling round the press the past couple of weeks, trying to make some sense of what the hell happened, is happening and why.
The press has always been drawn to the sensational, never more so than with our current crisis, there is just mountains of “Stuff” out there to wade through, kernels of truth amongst it, but an awful lot of fluff and nonsense, self-appointed experts everywhere sowing hysteria
and division when we should be all pulling together. Is it any wonder our younger generation, indoctrinated by years of the denigration of authority and the schoolyard bullshit that passes for debate in our political edifices have become self centred and cynical. When a bunch of doctors for gods sake, thumbs their noses at authority and abscond from quarantine, what the hell are our young people supposed to think? Yeah, a party at Bondi sounds good about now.
The past few weeks at an accelerating pace the pages of our newspapers have been full of cynical virtue signalling. The same financial institutions that over the past few years were gouging and swindling Australian mums an dads out of billions of dollars as deftly as a Nigerian princess with a gold mine are filling pages with how virtuous they are helping in this crisis. I have no idea but I imagine a full page ad in the Australian would pay quite a few Dole checks for months.
Our airport owners waving parking fees wow what benevolent people they are. They make billions in turnover each year that gets funnelled to offshore tax havens up to 70% mark-up on parking, yet now you can park for free. Who’s parking at the airport these days?
The price of oil tanked weeks ago yet petrol at the stations followed the same predictable cycles up and down like a whores draws, a buck fifty or so last week, the NRMA says on the current oil price it should be about a dollar a litre.
The same cynicism from our beloved CAsA. The same sociopathic numpies that have been decimating a whole industry for the past thirty years, destroying countless businesses and lives, now suddenly becoming all reasonable and virtuous and releases the Garrote a notch.
Some would say thank god for small mercies, but those same numpies are still drawing full salary and all the lurks and perks that go with them, while the industry bleeds itself out.
The same destructive policies remain, the same obtuse, nonsensical, not fit for purpose regulations still in force to rage rampant across whatever industry remains after this conflagration.
CAsA are a conflagration all on their own.
We are all supposed to carry the load, public sector excepted.
Yeah well, I guess I am, very hard not to be in these troubled times.
History has always been interesting to me, there are many lessons we can learn from it, yet that cynic in me cannot forget that a large part of history is built on Myth and legends there is also the truth that history is by and large written by the victor, rarely the loser. Nevertheless, generally, there are kernels of truth in it.
Trawling round the press the past couple of weeks, trying to make some sense of what the hell happened, is happening and why.
The press has always been drawn to the sensational, never more so than with our current crisis, there is just mountains of “Stuff” out there to wade through, kernels of truth amongst it, but an awful lot of fluff and nonsense, self-appointed experts everywhere sowing hysteria
and division when we should be all pulling together. Is it any wonder our younger generation, indoctrinated by years of the denigration of authority and the schoolyard bullshit that passes for debate in our political edifices have become self centred and cynical. When a bunch of doctors for gods sake, thumbs their noses at authority and abscond from quarantine, what the hell are our young people supposed to think? Yeah, a party at Bondi sounds good about now.
The past few weeks at an accelerating pace the pages of our newspapers have been full of cynical virtue signalling. The same financial institutions that over the past few years were gouging and swindling Australian mums an dads out of billions of dollars as deftly as a Nigerian princess with a gold mine are filling pages with how virtuous they are helping in this crisis. I have no idea but I imagine a full page ad in the Australian would pay quite a few Dole checks for months.
Our airport owners waving parking fees wow what benevolent people they are. They make billions in turnover each year that gets funnelled to offshore tax havens up to 70% mark-up on parking, yet now you can park for free. Who’s parking at the airport these days?
The price of oil tanked weeks ago yet petrol at the stations followed the same predictable cycles up and down like a whores draws, a buck fifty or so last week, the NRMA says on the current oil price it should be about a dollar a litre.
The same cynicism from our beloved CAsA. The same sociopathic numpies that have been decimating a whole industry for the past thirty years, destroying countless businesses and lives, now suddenly becoming all reasonable and virtuous and releases the Garrote a notch.
Some would say thank god for small mercies, but those same numpies are still drawing full salary and all the lurks and perks that go with them, while the industry bleeds itself out.
The same destructive policies remain, the same obtuse, nonsensical, not fit for purpose regulations still in force to rage rampant across whatever industry remains after this conflagration.
CAsA are a conflagration all on their own.
We are all supposed to carry the load, public sector excepted.