Geeze and I thought I was getting a bit dark. Chin up Stanky babe, you're old enough to know that you can't make people think and do as you want and why the hell should they?
We think the way were wired, and our 'ologies' change according to our needs, the kind of life some of you blokes seem wistful about sounds like utter stagnation to me. A world of humans being sweet to each other and nobody needing extra for booze or drugs, or wanting a car with more grunt just for the hell of it sounds as mindnumbingly boring as those pamphlets the Jayhos used to hand out at the door. I used to look at them and think if that's their idea of heaven they must lead very unimaginative lives.
Socialism sounds kind of surrender monkey talk to me. Those who can't be billionaires bitchin' about it.
Most people don't want to be. I sure don't, wouldn't know what to do with it. I'm okay with their principles of evening the bounty out a tad, keeping everyone fed even those too bloody lazy to lift a spoon. That's not 'socialism' it's just common decency and a guarantee of being able sleep contented that you're not an arsehole. or at least it used to be. '
Sowell had a good quote to cover the current attitude held by the 'modern socialist'.
"How come it's greedy to keep what you earned, but not greedy to demand a share of what someone else earned"?
And don't got using pedantic arguments over whether corp'ns and billionaires 'earn" it. It's the pitch of the attitude that it nails.
I never saw that any special kind of high minded philosophy was required to adhere to the rules of common decent social behaviour.
The 'don't be a dick' principle worked for a very long time. So what happened to that? When did everybody suddenly find the need to label themselves as part of some ismic conviction? Then lob bombs into everybody else's chosen ismic trenches?
I grew up in a world where every single MP in the Labor Party was a tyke and suspected commo at the time.
These days the tykes are the "Far Right" so what turned that over?
Albo (Oz PM for the lurkers) is still both, full on catholic boy and fan of Trotsky. A few on his front bench are still active tykes too, yet the Labor voters all rant about closing down private ''elite' schools and are dead against religion. wtf eh? so why do they vote for tykes then? Love to ask them, anyone know any? None around here, rural area, no Labor candidates, they don't like rural people much, no unions to speak of therefore no campaign 'donations' I suppose.
It's all so contradictory that claiming to be ismic anything is meaningless. Extreme Left and Right are essentially the same type of regimes.
Are there any Extreme Right regimes though? Other than Islamic ones?
I think we're making a mistake to equate political Parties with specific 'isms'. None of them are pure ismic anything. They lean in all directions but you can never rely on them sticking to the policies they con us in with.
Either they shelve the 'bait' one or produce one out of their collective arses that the voter had no idea they were hiding. Then you find that half the MPs in the Party you voted for decide to have an acute attack of conscience and cross the floor to vote against the policy the Party was elected to push through.
You can't trust any of them, they all break our hearts, all the voter can do is vote for the ones likely to cause the least damage to whatever we've got put away to see us through.
Pensioners vote Labor for guarantee welfare (although the Coalition haven't exactly cut it either) Those relying on their own nesteggs to provide income vote Coalition because they know where all the bankers live.'
It used to be a pretty good rule of thumb, but not now! The Coalition do stupid things like double the dole during the lockdowns.
W H Y?? nobody was allowed to go out to spend it! I doubt I'll recover from that mindfart. You can't rely on any of them any more.
bugger it Stanky, now i'm going dark side again... oh well, I tried.
