Achievement

 

Pauline Hanson has got into trouble again.  God bless her for trying to speak up . This time it's  a pile on by the mob  for her attempt to talk about how our first people's contribution to our communities success has been , in recent times, been overstated ( especially by remote southerners who claim to speak on their behalf )
Apparently now,  there are somethings you cannot say in Australia -- but she is saying some of them ; and being accused of hate speech " . And worse, young people are encouraged to hate her!



She of course is not alone in thinking the above reality  but she is made to feel very alone by saying it .

Forget the future .There is something very wrong with a culture that doesn't --even NOW allow people to speak freely.   Forget future legislation by all the control freaks .- so that works ? 
Forget future legislation by all the reactionaries who hide away till they can see someone doing ONE thing wrong. No wonder Aussie politics can be so pathetic because noone dare say anything . 

.In my view we should , if we are to be  family to each other , not overstate our case and allow the other side and members to be heard . Overstating and making a loud noise is what the legacy media merchants do and they are doing it more and more as they get switched off for making such a racket . Australia is no place  for such fanaticism. New religions movements too can be as arrogant as ever ,

In my one nation of the future she should be highly praised for going to confession in not expressing that reality  well .She of course is not alone in thinking that  but she is made to feel very alone by saying it . 


Was Pauline wrong to talk about our first people lack of achievement ? 
Our first peoples have much and many things to be proud of particularly in their low footprint and ways of living off this harsh Savanah landscape.    
We have just done a wonderful series on radio celebrating just a number of groups of first peoples in Western Victoria and  how they must have laughed at us new food producers trying to make a living by digging up some of the most hard setting soils in the world , Governor Phillip  first and his best gardeners were disgusted at how hard it was to grow food at Parramatta. 
 The Europeans employed the same techniques  they and civilizations had learnt on limestone rich soils of Europe,    Such techniques were not appropriate and  as a g ecologist  we still don;t know how best to protect water bodies and use land according to its capability  Same laugher  and more with Germans at Hopevale  north in Noel Pearsons home ..
Life was much easier in this hot dry place if you just chased the animals for food ---- and boy were they good at it . And they had time to rest laugh and dance . ( read accounts of Tuckfield and many others who lived with the variuos early SW in the early days)  Campfires at the Cross by Heather Le Griffin 

Our mad fortune hunters from Europe were so busy when they came to this country they forgot that their best culture taught them ( Genesis  1 ) to rest at least one day a week . If the new immigrants were resting ( as was in theirs and the lands  best interest ) they might have realized their stupid sheep were taking ownership of the most valuable thing here -- water . The Europeans were messing up the key to the livelihood s of first peoples. Too many animals at a waterhole and you can't break the cycle of Liver Fluke ( Chappy ) 


And what right has anyone got to talk achievement? What good does it do ? Westerners vain claims to do everything well is shown clearly by their early abuse of this land and its fragile easily eroded and salty soils --to be the sort of arrogant overstatement that prevents our children learning to adapt every acre to better  . 

Point is , if we all stop exaggerating  we have some hope of the progress we all want. Humility is the starting point for better and best. 

Our bulldozing forebears did over clear too much,  but they  do have a right to be heard about real achievements like building dams that have massively increased the level of biodiversity here ( remember how the Diprotodons died )  And shifting some trees can be Ok if the land is  ecologically Grassland ( Savannah ) which most of our country is . 

No , when it comes to achievement, nearly all of us need to hold our horses for a more objective account .
This reality check  was what Pauline was rightly calling for,  and for her to be shamed and crucified for doing so ,  is not her problem .  
At least Pauline went to confession and said she messed up in trying to talk to the issue . 
That  confession is an achievement is anyone good books - an objective view enables reform in the right places and the reality of good better best to reign .

All most of us want is no shaming , no blaming but truth telling . A return to honest respect for all immigrants and their real , substantial and unique achievements and contributions to this country . 

Feebleness and Feeblemindedness

 Things are moving fast in the destruction of our language. Perhaps that is nothing new, but the pessimism and pettiness of our political correct screen audience and the new religions of shaming is removing once helpful and useful objective words from our language.

THE TRUTH can now get you into jail 
As the West adopts the stranglehold strictures of the East . people stop talking the truth because they fear being shamed. eg A young woman does not speak up to a dominating male because he uses her private anger towards him as a weapon against her ( gas lighting )  Our young people no longer have the sound understanding of the place of anger that would enable them to escape the self righteous rubbish talk of others who claim goodness because " they are not angry ' .
THUS The pejorative interpretation of words you say ( not what you mean to say ) can now get you put you in jail for using them . Shaming is the name of the game ; Anger is named always evil by the narcissist who gets away with it because we can see it in his target  but never in himself . 


And while all we Westerners need to be reminded about the commandments and their insistence that we never call someone an idiot; no adjectives about particular persons made in the image of God ,

YET we wanna and need to be accurate when describing the diseases amongst our children.   

THE SCIENCE 

Describing retardation in adults ... 
 no ,,,,none of us are qualified here but let/s explore the territory in the good name of describing a problem that needs to be addressed. 
A handicap that can hopefully be overcome?  No final labels apply to this audience 

IN ART 
a safer way to avoid labelling a problem with a group of adults ( us ) is to use a picture word that describes the general problem as we see it - the phenomenon ----if the cap fits the audience will know .

I found a picture word for a lot of people who I now know to have never grown up . eg 
Imbecile is a perfectly useful word that began its life as accurately describing someone who is feeble. The person maybe old or very young. They are so weak that that they need a staff to walk with and they may or may not be able to handle the staff . The word though is not accepted for use this century because of its common use in a pejorative   and derogatory sense   
The word is no longer acceptable in public use but many adults are feebleminded in the sense that they have never grown up ; they talk about subjects they do not understand or have never experienced, 
Real life is always a risk management exercise and those who have lived in risk free homes would not assume authority over those who live on the land for example.

A feeble person cannot walk successfully across any paddock let alone through an ecosystem that is anything but feebleminded in its crushing blows on good intentions. 

Monocultures

 The Greens ( cf small greens like u) think they invented the appreciation of diversity and respect for it.  They don't live long in the country to see that long term rural land custodians actually learn and KNOW how important and highly complex it is to all living systems. 
Farmers and their children learn about mutuality, cooperation, competition and dependance and marginal rewards and sharing. from infancy.
Those who live too long in cities( or still cling to a drip feed from the city ) are likely to see only or two sides of the grand design.
Is it any wonder that so many in cities think life is all about competition, that monocultural blindness s that drives people to be the richest people in the cemetery. and to relentlessly chase high margins -It is the economy stupid that makes the city rich and the country poor.
Small margins is life for us in the country and we are the ones who love it ! 

The Greens have yet to realize they still have their blinkers on- they still think monoculturally  .....  more coming  

The fanciful nonsense of children

The shallow talk of freedom and our entitlement to it . 

 Whether one has children, or has to live with them  as adults, one longs for them to grow up --To mature .
A lot of my baby booming generation have clearly never grown up .They have had it all and it hasn't been good for them . Nor has it been good for their children who are not war ready and too rich to notice their dependancies and their real lack of freedom; their lack of awareness of choices and why one one needs to make good ones .  

Many of my generation have made a career out being the reactionaries they were as teenagers.
The only thing that is troubling them is old age and the realization that there are limits to growth and that resilience ( the thing you need to survive in the real world) comes not with mere freedom( but with resistance repentance and a return to the disciplined walking on the narrow road .

eg Lerhmann/Higgins trial. The growth of the risk of unresolved domestic anger, violence and abandonment .  

Think  about the overreaction so evident to men , of many modern single women who insist on post Christian lifestyle choices and then reject men's pressure on them.  Why should men feel obliged to one women when all the talk is about everyone's freedom to " do what they feel like '' ,  for example. 
If men are only animals,  why can't men just play the predator? 

I feel for such women  and accept that the risk of violence , misunderstanding and abandonment  is real , but their response of many of them to the sexual revolution is not complete or effective  . 

Some of these issues  have been more deeply dealt with very effectively in a RECENT scholarly  study by Mary Harrington of THE THREE PRINCIPLES OF REACTIONARY  FEMINISM ( reviewed in News Weekly Nov 11th) .

Mary points to the  reality that modern feminists ( many of whom appear in this stories  frame ) have foisted an " atomised , dehumanized  and commodified social order on women which doesn't work well. - and  IMHO presumably means they don't know what to do sometimes but resist it, make men more of a target, and resist what is happening to them  more strongly than ever.  
The evidence is there in the fanaticism .   

Creating God in our own image

 Our age seems determined to dumb itself down . Unwilling to follow the lengthy connections of logic , the quickfiddlers  insist we can change the world , not by changing the word connections s,but by changing the meaning of words .
 Its the dumbest nonsense  ever and our popular medai are afraid to state the fact . It can only end in mindess crap and reationships betwen people that only end in unproductive distinctions ,isolation,  no talk  and divorce . 
Take this excellent piece from Mark Durie https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6564055/2950692593657357613?hl=en#
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Decomposition - The ignored friend amongst the fiends

 Its June 8th 2022 and everybody is talking about gas .
You do not need to read this if you are panicking about global warming or severe climate change because if you are right , I can't offer any solutions . 

This site exists to expose the half baked fears and fancies of the hard boiled pedants who name the problem without really knowing what the problem is, let alone how to solve the problem .

Lets for the sake of argument, lets ignore those who think Global warning and CC are a problem - see note below) _
Gas burning  ( combustion ) is not a problem , only the exhaustion of fossil fuel supplies of it . 
I'm sticking with one challenge at a time. 
Every living space emits gas  and the combsustion in all its many forms creates heat   Afew weeks ago we we were told we didn't need it and it was just another evil threatening our future if it was burnt.
That suggests those who talk "decarbonising the economy" and not using combustion are half blind and advocating death to the living,
The confusion has got people in a panic about what they can and can't do, partly because GW is attached now to our burning of fuel in the public mind.
The city often now doesn't even allow you to burn wood unless you do it like cars do , burning it inside where no one can see you sinning or criticize you for doing something like that. So much hypocrisy and confusion and plenty of room for hypocrisy because the elements of concern are invisible.
 
You can't even see the mouths of plants expressing their opinion on all our production of carbon dioxide.  some other time if you are interested .  

Today , suggesting a moving feast , nearly everybody has come to confession and said  "we still need it "vowing to never sin again once the cold is over and we find a way to never burn again  . ( combustion is the correct  term for a useful necessary  and largely untalked about process that will keep going even if we stop burning.

Compounding the problems
1. We have those who  think Global warning and CC are a problem. Before they talk,  tell me ask why they haven't yet embraced decomposition  
as its happening in quite a big way across the landscape right NOW and in the next few months  , emitting even worse things than CO2 into the atmosphere .
2, Misplaced concreteness leads to misplaced investment, And I know that ; The above work using biological decomp  ( and other sequestration concepts ) has not happened because projects for SW rural Australia that i put up  15  years ago have never been followed up )Universities and agencies have been funded for 20 years to the simple " find way to reduce CO2 emissions"  with what result except to corrupt those agencies . And the new government think they are going to root out corruption with another  ICAC ,
That how bad and incompetent our political leadership on conservation is , you will notice i am not spelling it out for yet another meddler to mess with the idea and ruin it ( Ellul)


3, Thoroughly lost and confused political arguments
Where is the sequestration on the ground?   You wanna be smart tell the earths daily sequestering rate ?  The Andrews government  are so lost in there rotting old growth  forests and against logging that they would rather   bushfires ants, termites and fungi  consume and produce the CO2   They are happy to close down half of Victoria and let it all rot . This nonsense is all in the name of " i hate logging " or something equally as narrow minded and religious as the magic charm and misanthropic words like " harvesting " listed  for more fuller discussion on this blog. The result of     

Summary ; the need for more clarity and less pedantry and evil agent labeling 

Sorry it's time the press got it right . We are not talking about the evil of burning gas  but of the real challenge of living without fossil fuels .  
Make sure your noisy worry warriors stick to the subject and don't waver . 
We all have a  concern tha FFG ( fossil fuel gas) is going to run out and we should be working out ways to avoid relying on it .Instead of working together we have people running in all directions. 
Net Zero means what -- same story ---who knows what it means  . 
If net zero means using gas from decomposition and fuel from recent sequestrations then we  might have something to talk about , but so far the assumption is panic and we must stop all burning and harvesting ,
Not very clever country 

Decarbonization

 Decarbonisation  or   decarbonization  hardly gets  a mention without someone offering solutions to prevent it 
for example it could mean 
1.The term decarbonization literally means the reduction of carbon. Precisely meant is the conversion to an economic system that sustainably reduces and compensates the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂). The long-term goal is to create a CO₂-free global economy.12 Mar 2019

2,  amore manageable  concept  might be ths one from Deloitte "Decarbonisation is the term used for removal or reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) output into the atmosphere. Decarbonisation is achieved by switching to usage of low carbon energy sources".

If I am confused so must lots of other people .Plants can't speak and neither can animals  so i as  an ecologist  would like the idea to be better put because it involves them in every breath they take 

The problem is that the public are now not clear about what is trying to be achieved.   The use of the term net Zero  is also needing a  clearer definition  because it seems everybody  SUDDENLY agrees ( november 2021 in Australia ) that its now possible ---  so in theory there is no argument that's it nota matter of politics unless of course its not so poorly defined it means different things to different people 

If you know which maths song sheet the parties are singing from please post a link to it here  

iF you read the post on Decomposition  you will note that  this natural process in the carbon cycle maybe left out of a lot of discussions about whet has gotta happen to what carbon for what end  before the dinosaurs out thee stop eating and getting warm on grass