People almost always do what works rather than what is right. Charities continually target the generous while leaving the selfish alone. Likewise, we all tend to accommodate the wishes of demanding, aggressive people rather than those who are patient and kind. I suppose we do this to avoid trouble for ourselves but, nonetheless, it is rewarding the wrong type of behaviour and therefore further encouraging demanding and aggressive behaviour!
Author: badjohn7
Writer and author. Published novel as eBook and print version. - Brownout - a story of life and doom - set in Philippines, Australia and USA.
Also published a non fiction work about grief, "Waiting for a Miracle: Life in the Dead Zone" as an eBook and print version. Another non fiction work is, "From Brexit to Brazil via Hong Kong, China, Russia and the USA" available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo etc. This book is a collection of essays that deal with the most pressing issues of our time, including Covid-19 and its political and social ramifications.
A House of Cards divided will always fall
A House of Cards, divided will always fall
Humanity is not only obviously divided, and always has been, but is innately working against its own survival and prosperity. On the one hand the more enlightened segments do all they can to save lives and reduce illness and disease. Technology, harnessed to such noble causes, contributes greatly to the goal. Of course, technology is also used to expedite destruction, death and misery. However, there is an essential philosophical problem connected with our species’ shepherding of itself along with other life forms.
Humanity takes only an atomistic approach to life and the problems besetting all creatures on the planet. Save lives here, save lives there and tinker around the edges of potential catastrophe. Resources and effort are expended on these piecemeal approaches and on the advance of technology, the great god of blind hope. Yet, almost no resources or effort are utilised in establishing a fair, just and workable plan for the planet and its inhabitants.
There is a paradox. There are simply too many humans on the planet for the survival, let alone the good, of all creatures. Nonetheless, we do all we can to save every human possible and extend human life further and further into (apparently) useless twilight years.
Surely, it is about time the world’s leaders not only realistically faced climate change, overpopulation, and the ever expanding gap between the rich and the poor but also pooled all available resources into preparing, and following, a sustainable, fair and just plan for the entire planet. It is high time that energy was directed into a holistic and philosophical approach for our entire planet! No, I don’t expect that this will happen. I am not an anarchist for nothing! Business will go on as usual leading to the twilight time of humanity and its ultimate extinction.
In a couple of weeks the G20 Summit will be held in Brisbane. If there was ever a time to make the most vital point that can ever be made, this is it!
Don’t Blame BarracK Obama
Large numbers of people in the US are blaming Obama for the state of the US and the world and are threatening to vote for the Republicans and their extremist members. Barrack Obama did not create the world he inherited in 2008. He is only a man and could not perform miracles. Furthermore, as President, he is bound by the ultimate power structure of the USA. He cannot single-handedly make the USA and the world a fairer and more transparent place, Even if he wanted to, he could not pardon Bradley Manning and stop gunning for Julian Assange.
The US establishment is multi-faceted and wields much more power than the president. Yet, the ignorant mob that form the majority of voters in most countries are threatening to elect a president and government that will finally commit the US and much of the world to the primrose path of destruction. The Republicans and the Tea Party would see everything collapse through their ignorance.
Turkey sits on its hands
One wonders what game Turkey is playing. The Turkish government has a once in a lifetime chance of building bridges with its Kurdish population and preventing the ISIS or ISIL capturing the town, Kobane, on its Syrian border. Turkish army units are already close by and could mount a decisive attack on ISIL. Yet the Turkish government does nothing. Instead of building bridges this inaction causes further divisions and trouble within Turkey. Once suspects that its somewhat Islamist government doesn’t want to intervene against a terrorist group that is also Sunni Muslim. Once again, we see sectarianism trumping the common good.
Of course, the geopolitics of gross capitalism have had a share of responsibility for the rise of ISIL but that doesn’t excuse that group from its gross inhumanity.
In Australia, the idiot Prime Minister, Tony Abbott is using this conflict as distraction therapy for the Australian population. He is hoping that they will forget about his attacks on the poor and vulnerable and that his policies are destroying the nation!
Why Australia’s leaders are destroying their country
In defiance of all logic the leaders of Oz are destroying the environment, ruining the economy and crippling the poor to further enrich the big end of town (gross capitalists). Why would they do this? Why would they damage their own country to help the greedy multinationals to make even more fortunes at the expense of the entire planet?
The answer is deceptively simple. “Legal corruption.” Unless they are so moronic as to believe their own lies, Tony Abbott and most prominent politicians surely must have something to gain out of apparent stupidity. They probably expect to be substantially rewarded once they have left politics.
Former PM Bob Hawke set the example on this process. After crying on TV over the Tienamin Square massacres Bob Hawke instantly granted permanent residence to 20,000 Chinese students who were then in Australia. With the family reunion laws this resulted in over 300,000 extra immigrants over a ten year period.
Strangely enough, after he left politics, Bob Hawke became a highly paid consultant for this same Chinese government that murdered its own people. Recently he attended an aboriginal event in the north of the nation and campaigned for the allowing of the dumping of Chinese nuclear waste in parts of those lands.
Perhaps there was even some truth to Clive Palmer’s recent tirade against the Chinese government.
The nasty thing about this type of “corruption” is that it is perfectly legal. After they have left politics and then hit the bonanza the recipients of these huge sinecures or handouts, cannot be charged with anything!
So what do Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey and the rest of their gang expect to receive when they retire from politics, at the expense of the rest of us and the planet?
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Embarrassed to be an Australian because of Australia’s stupidly criminal federal government
In the last week the morons that rule Oz have reached a new low. Firstly, the minister for the non-environment, Greg Hunt, approved the world’s largest coal mine and coal port on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef. This stupid proposal has the full support of the equally stupidly criminal Queensland state government. The approved development will see a dodgy Indian company with a bad track record implement the construction. 2000 temporary jobs will be created and those jobs will be filled by Indian workers on 457 visas as they will be paid less than Australian workers.
This environmental vandalism will put at risk the Barrier Reef tourist industry that supports 70,000 full time permanent jobs and generates a huge amount of tourist dollars.
Secondly, Immigration officers under the authority of the morons that rule Oz, confiscated the epilepsy medicine of a 3 year old girl, despite the fact that her parents possessed the correct documentation for the medicine. The girl and her parents were under detention for having committed the heinous crime of arriving illegally by boat. The girl’s health has been put at risk and I believe she already has had several seizures.
The morons that rule Oz were only elected because of the media circus about the previous government’s leadership. This media circus was vigorously promoted by the Murdoch press and their cohorts. It is small wonder that the present rulers of Oz wish to promote education only for the elite. If mass education had already gained a significant foothold here those morons would never have been elected. These morons relied on simple and simplistic slogans to appeal to the prejudice and stupidity of millions of voters. Mind you, it would appear that Oz’s current rulers would like to kill off democracy altogether.
They can probably get away with it because the residents of Oz will never perform mass civil disobedience in huge numbers for any length of time – that is, unless the government closed the pubs and all liquor outlets. Then we would see a revolution.
Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil
The essential problem of humanity is that basically we only care about ourselves and ours. What appears to be good for us, our families and our tribes we call good. What appears to be bad for the same we label as bad. Greed, stupidity and most of the ills that befall our world that are caused by our species come down to the simple fact that most of us are trapped in our own egos and identities. We fail to see the big picture; our individual selves are just little tiny cogs in a much bigger environment. We must think outside of this little selfish square.
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