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Just a bit more follow-up stuff from my Bernardi post last night and then I'll leave it alone.
 

Whilst the tall guy's pulling out of his stumps is, in itself, really only of interest to political pundits and hacks, his action does present as symptomatic of a significant condition. We're becoming more conservative in the party political sense and we're becoming more conservative in a societal sense. This has been aided and abetted by the decline of the traditional fourth estate, the rise of the social media platforms as de facto news providers and the increasing concentration of media ownership in the hands of a few........... not just here in Oz but world-wide.
 

As you'd expect, conservatives look over their shoulders and pine for a time when women were women, men were men and farts smelt like farts.......and not bloody soothing aloe! The conservative's world is one of monoculture, blind respect for authority and subservience to ordained rules.
 

You can attempt to fuck that scenario up by asserting that such conditions never really existed in Australia at any time but you'll attract short change from an increasing number of 'past-loving' punters. The 'politics' and the 'language' we're now using reflect that continual sliding to the right.
 

Of course, all of these reactionary behaviours, policies and decisions are occurring in a current environment of rapidly escalating knowledge and change where the need for a rear-view vision mirror is minute. Go figure..........

Posted on f/b on 8 February 2017.

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