BOLT'S WORLD

Andrew Bolt's attached article from the weekend's Herald Sun highlights one mode of thought regarding an explanation for some of the terrible occurrences around the world, and in Australia, over the last two years. The fact that Sonia Kruger endorsed Bolt's central analysis, on 'brekkie television' this morning, probably has given it an even wider audience.

 

Whether you accept the arguments or not is, I guess, dependent on where you stood on such issues before the weekend. And that statement is crucial in all of this. None of Bolt's statistics are new and they certainly aren't a surprise. It's what significance you attribute to them that's important and we all know the pros and cons of bean counting.

 

Andrew Bolt is no dill. He doesn't say we should stop Muslim-background migrants yet he provides the canvas for the artwork to be realised, along with a colouring guide and the necessary paints. Just maybe it's about time we all took a deep breath and rediscovered knitting.

 

However, there's a definite trend developing, not just in Australia, to wrangle separate issues under one broad banner. In Oz, it takes the form of boat people, refugees, Muslims and, yes, even Aborigines. Bolt has certainly been an active participant in such wrangling. He employs the tactics of marginalisation and, at times, vilification to highlight his points of view.

 

Secondly- and this relates to many of us- there appears to be a growing lust for a lost life here in Oz. This 'lust' centres on a time when everything was cool, everyone knew their place, there was 'respect' and we all genuflected at the altar of a Christian God. The great problem with this 'longing' is that such a time never existed in the first place.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/muslim-migration-opens-door-to-terror/news-story/8ee3c985088b9a502ff475b5dbdf74c5

Posted on f/b on 20 July 2016.