Victorians are rightly concerned that newspapers entrusted with a independant and reporting profile are under threat. Despite its great history , The Age has been failing to properly represent a number of groups for quite some time . Pressure of space doesn't help but who is prepared to pay for 2 sides esp on environment where progressives think its all on the new age side ?
The Age still comes up with some good reports but not in the area i am interested in and often only tokenistically . The Australian is less predictable and therefore worth a listen and subscription .Where is the "Andrew Bolt "amongst the Age's reporters?
The real problem then is a growing lack of diversity in newspaper content .
what Internet lacks in quality it makes up in diversity, feedback and undermining the pedantry and predjudice that were always limits in newspaper reporting.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Evolve or Die is their cry
Such is the cry of the truly desperate .Those who cannot argue -preach .Those failing to addreess the last question rationally use the words and phrases "move on" or "let's progress" because theirultimate faith is not intheir own logic but what's around the corner .Their faith in progress, in keeping moving and in some esoteric faith in evolution . This sort of evolution advocacy has now the staus of a god . Such faith is not testable because it can only be proved by change itself . All such advocates have to do is talk about something new being better.
pleased to hear a prominent ABC discussion leader today resist the attempt to conclude a discussion on that religiuos note in their attempt to justify changing history and word meanings - the language is evolving ( and we are leading that evolutionary move ")
pleased to hear a prominent ABC discussion leader today resist the attempt to conclude a discussion on that religiuos note in their attempt to justify changing history and word meanings - the language is evolving ( and we are leading that evolutionary move ")
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Once Categorized - the lesson from the shock is filled away
RE Labor party down to as few as 8 seats in a landslide loss in QLD at the weekend
At bottom of Labor's loss is a con. The Greens con Labor into thinking they know what they are doing. While Labor don't see it, they will continue to fall into deep holes .
In city central Buffers , rules and taxes work to make things work better environmentally. In the real world Green labor allianaces are simply not credible.
I would be the last person to say exploitation of the earth is NOT one of our biggest challenges BUT Mere words are not enough.We can all talk problems ,but few there be that know solutions. The greatest evil is done in the name of the best intentions. You must be good at doing environment before you offer solutions to environment. If the Greens were serious about being credible they would study the subject a lot more deeply BEFORE they opened their mouths and sought to prize open our purses.
When something unexpected happens we all ask why ? And just a bit more deeply when the shock is deeper than normal .
Children often don't realise there is a problem with their lives direction until they get shock therapy. What about adults ?
Children might blame asset sales , swings and sickness, the gene pool or even bad advice from someone else ( not normal as so seldom done ) but real cause may go down unnoticed. Adults might blame their neglect of oikonomia is due to their commitment to bringing the bread in but really its still bad personal balance. The more we believe in the righteousness of our reasons for stubbornly refusing to address the problems of oikomia the more we seem to not wanna budge; child or parent . Best intentions are the smoke screen we put up to hide ourselves from the truth.
Blyth , in her result speech mentioned her best intentions but few picked up on their significance as one of the key causes for her governments loss of credibility.
The trouble seems to be that , unless the shock is personal , we tend to be happy with shallow answers . We can con ourselves about our lack of complicity . Blame someone else.
Many of the audience are happy with any answer that's not personal because it avoids the most painful thing - the role of the personal . Even the critical important question for pollies - how much was I conned , often neer gets properly addressed ? QLD labor people need to cut their ties , reflect and repent of the half truths they perpetuated . Such rebuilding takes time
People who practice science ( cf those who talk science) know that its a tedious business to check "why"
The result is that most of the people who talk too early on the subject of " something outside them" talk too shallowly and tend to project blame on an institution or a cause out side the personal . This of course is crap because the con is real . After all , last straw is not the important factor or the secondary loss may not be the primary loss factor . Labor's loss has
Julia Gillard is right to mention deep rebuilding but will the party dig deep enough . At least she like the new QLD leader recognises the danger - in power the tendency to think "we know what we are doing" can be overwhelming .
If you never get beyond the SMD, you never realize that describing the problem is nothing compared to describing the solutions . The Greens can't even get the problems right, so what business is it of Labor to listen to them .
YOU never move on if you build on sand . You never move on if you don't recognise where you were conned and conned yourself .
We are afraid,of course, when threatened like Blyth must be , that we have believed a lie. Admitting we have believed a lie is not to die or fall into the abyss, but to find a foundation . To admit we have been part of the lie is the same .WE are never rich when we know what to do, only when we are poor in the spirit . The problem is , if we don't get to the bottom of the problem, others who love and care for us may also wait a lifetime till we do. Do good -do better next time
At bottom of Labor's loss is a con. The Greens con Labor into thinking they know what they are doing. While Labor don't see it, they will continue to fall into deep holes .
In city central Buffers , rules and taxes work to make things work better environmentally. In the real world Green labor allianaces are simply not credible.
I would be the last person to say exploitation of the earth is NOT one of our biggest challenges BUT Mere words are not enough.We can all talk problems ,but few there be that know solutions. The greatest evil is done in the name of the best intentions. You must be good at doing environment before you offer solutions to environment. If the Greens were serious about being credible they would study the subject a lot more deeply BEFORE they opened their mouths and sought to prize open our purses.
When something unexpected happens we all ask why ? And just a bit more deeply when the shock is deeper than normal .
Children often don't realise there is a problem with their lives direction until they get shock therapy. What about adults ?
Children might blame asset sales , swings and sickness, the gene pool or even bad advice from someone else ( not normal as so seldom done ) but real cause may go down unnoticed. Adults might blame their neglect of oikonomia is due to their commitment to bringing the bread in but really its still bad personal balance. The more we believe in the righteousness of our reasons for stubbornly refusing to address the problems of oikomia the more we seem to not wanna budge; child or parent . Best intentions are the smoke screen we put up to hide ourselves from the truth.
Blyth , in her result speech mentioned her best intentions but few picked up on their significance as one of the key causes for her governments loss of credibility.
The trouble seems to be that , unless the shock is personal , we tend to be happy with shallow answers . We can con ourselves about our lack of complicity . Blame someone else.
Many of the audience are happy with any answer that's not personal because it avoids the most painful thing - the role of the personal . Even the critical important question for pollies - how much was I conned , often neer gets properly addressed ? QLD labor people need to cut their ties , reflect and repent of the half truths they perpetuated . Such rebuilding takes time
People who practice science ( cf those who talk science) know that its a tedious business to check "why"
The result is that most of the people who talk too early on the subject of " something outside them" talk too shallowly and tend to project blame on an institution or a cause out side the personal . This of course is crap because the con is real . After all , last straw is not the important factor or the secondary loss may not be the primary loss factor . Labor's loss has
Julia Gillard is right to mention deep rebuilding but will the party dig deep enough . At least she like the new QLD leader recognises the danger - in power the tendency to think "we know what we are doing" can be overwhelming .
If you never get beyond the SMD, you never realize that describing the problem is nothing compared to describing the solutions . The Greens can't even get the problems right, so what business is it of Labor to listen to them .
YOU never move on if you build on sand . You never move on if you don't recognise where you were conned and conned yourself .
We are afraid,of course, when threatened like Blyth must be , that we have believed a lie. Admitting we have believed a lie is not to die or fall into the abyss, but to find a foundation . To admit we have been part of the lie is the same .WE are never rich when we know what to do, only when we are poor in the spirit . The problem is , if we don't get to the bottom of the problem, others who love and care for us may also wait a lifetime till we do. Do good -do better next time
Monday, February 6, 2012
Dumbed down Australia
Julia is concerned about "education" . Joe Hockey is preoccupied with "productivity" and Penny Wong likes, this week at least , the word "resilience" .(ABCqanda 6 Feb 2012) Pack of dummies the lot of them .
Just throwing these words around, as carelessly as they do, shows they can't be trusted to unpick the processes that would cause them to cut deeply on these subjects .
Some may argue that they are appealing to the ignorant, or some bottom line in the audience understanding of issues . Q&;A format doesn't help; just like it doesn't answer questions (but speculates on motivation )but allows Jones to dumb down any deep issue. Judith Sloan at least got a few words in edgeways (explaining them) .
I say , don't do it too often or you'll only reinforce the view amongst thinking Australians that this tribe of wannabes don't think ; by treating us as dummies - becoming dummies yourself
Everyone must unpick the word or kill the spirit of the idea:
Otherwise the idea that they don't know what they are talking about will dominate: as it does amongst children trying to watch Q&A
Nothing in recent days proves the dumbing down than the silly and simple consensus that a piece of paper and a particular word ( W1, W2 or W3) should identify the scapegoats for the OLD floods (Blame is never allowed to be a poly) - the flood managers of Wivenhoe dam. (I know the media think W1 is a process but that's still the sort of stupid limits we put on ideas these days .
Let the pedants rule and we spend our last dollar fighting each other in the courts
Just throwing these words around, as carelessly as they do, shows they can't be trusted to unpick the processes that would cause them to cut deeply on these subjects .
Some may argue that they are appealing to the ignorant, or some bottom line in the audience understanding of issues . Q&;A format doesn't help; just like it doesn't answer questions (but speculates on motivation )but allows Jones to dumb down any deep issue. Judith Sloan at least got a few words in edgeways (explaining them) .
I say , don't do it too often or you'll only reinforce the view amongst thinking Australians that this tribe of wannabes don't think ; by treating us as dummies - becoming dummies yourself
Everyone must unpick the word or kill the spirit of the idea:
Otherwise the idea that they don't know what they are talking about will dominate: as it does amongst children trying to watch Q&A
Nothing in recent days proves the dumbing down than the silly and simple consensus that a piece of paper and a particular word ( W1, W2 or W3) should identify the scapegoats for the OLD floods (Blame is never allowed to be a poly) - the flood managers of Wivenhoe dam. (I know the media think W1 is a process but that's still the sort of stupid limits we put on ideas these days .
Let the pedants rule and we spend our last dollar fighting each other in the courts
Scientists shouldn't be judged on compliance with guidelines they draft , but on decisions they make. Q&A and pollies are not credible when they speak for scientists but don't LET them speak for themselves.
An all party problem - that's how deep the dumbing down is going
An all party problem - that's how deep the dumbing down is going
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Fighting off disaster
Nothing breaks up the parties of wannabes and their worrier friends than a real environmental event. The chooks are all amok because of floods. Rural people are used to wavering fear dread and disaster talk from the left field . What Australia, that country of innovators and planners don't seem to see is that while the wooriers are in charge noone is safe .
If the worriers are not looking in the right places (eg science in practice focus) , so the tax effort and all the bells and whistles are all wasted.
The key clue to the disaster in crude old Canberra is that, like Captain Bligh the latter , they think that good decisions come from a piece of paper, not a person . Personal responsibility is the be all , end all of Western politics and many of our pollies don't even know it .
We need not fear being physically overtaken by the east , we are already been overtaken by it by the way we think /don't think .
If the worriers are not looking in the right places (eg science in practice focus) , so the tax effort and all the bells and whistles are all wasted.
The key clue to the disaster in crude old Canberra is that, like Captain Bligh the latter , they think that good decisions come from a piece of paper, not a person . Personal responsibility is the be all , end all of Western politics and many of our pollies don't even know it .
We need not fear being physically overtaken by the east , we are already been overtaken by it by the way we think /don't think .
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Marriage, democracy and other sacred objects
The above 2 words are losing their value . Being treated as sacred isn't helping revive interest in the best way to keep their original meanings alive in our culture and keeping sense of their importance as ideals .
The hypocrisy of not allowing a discussion is more obvious, it seems to me , if we observe the phenomenon in another culture.
Why for example are PapuaNG ( esp this week )leaders both keen to look like they are running a democracy, when one or many parties don't respect the spirit of it . ( NEWS ALSO /Syria/ Iraq/ Thailand) Truthfulness about " a no talk situation "would help us see the truth and how to keep the spirit alive . No talk prevents discussion and allows abuse by religious isolation and veneration.
Is the hypocrisy evident in current PNG politics ( 2 leaders claiming to represent the people ) something we TOO could be excused of .
Marriage is observed (Both leaders claim parliamentary support ) but family breakdown is obvious. These dumb observances, mere description and talk of mere numbers fail to deal with the hypocrisy and key disease of "allowing everybody to do your own thing as morally right" .Good governance becomes by default bad governanace if you don't define governance better that the rule of the majority ( The Greeks knew this, why don't we?The Greeks knew that information is power (Aristocracy) why don't we? The real status of any marriage amongst political leaders is obviuos -often only just a piece of paper .Worse, it can be plain hypocrisy on the part of parties; less than worthless, plain distracting .
Marriage and democracy isn't a problem to those who know what it really means . Refusing to discuss what it means can mean that a new generation won't know what it really means !
In our own culture, Marriage equality is made out to be a big ambition that we must and haven't achieved to date. Surely such an ambition, if achieved ,will be a hollow one because redefinition will kill the spirit of the word just as technofix over it now ,when marraige no longer works for most people, has killed the interest . My point is , the spirit is more easily lost by seeking to shore up some silly sacred view of it .
The hypocrisy of not allowing a discussion is more obvious, it seems to me , if we observe the phenomenon in another culture.
Why for example are PapuaNG ( esp this week )leaders both keen to look like they are running a democracy, when one or many parties don't respect the spirit of it . ( NEWS ALSO /Syria/ Iraq/ Thailand) Truthfulness about " a no talk situation "would help us see the truth and how to keep the spirit alive . No talk prevents discussion and allows abuse by religious isolation and veneration.
Is the hypocrisy evident in current PNG politics ( 2 leaders claiming to represent the people ) something we TOO could be excused of .
Marriage is observed (Both leaders claim parliamentary support ) but family breakdown is obvious. These dumb observances, mere description and talk of mere numbers fail to deal with the hypocrisy and key disease of "allowing everybody to do your own thing as morally right" .Good governance becomes by default bad governanace if you don't define governance better that the rule of the majority ( The Greeks knew this, why don't we?The Greeks knew that information is power (Aristocracy) why don't we? The real status of any marriage amongst political leaders is obviuos -often only just a piece of paper .Worse, it can be plain hypocrisy on the part of parties; less than worthless, plain distracting .
Marriage and democracy isn't a problem to those who know what it really means . Refusing to discuss what it means can mean that a new generation won't know what it really means !
In our own culture, Marriage equality is made out to be a big ambition that we must and haven't achieved to date. Surely such an ambition, if achieved ,will be a hollow one because redefinition will kill the spirit of the word just as technofix over it now ,when marraige no longer works for most people, has killed the interest . My point is , the spirit is more easily lost by seeking to shore up some silly sacred view of it .
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Finding Happiness
If we knew , we could be millionaires; so why aren't I ? I won't go there just yet but , in truth I have "moved on" far enough to know its not about money .
So there goes the value of a democratic survey - most people are not "there yet" so you can't trust them to know about being millionaires .The majority may also still believing the TV or the group , the talk or whatever ; unlikely to say No to status they haven't yet got ; an exoperinece they haven't had .
BUT It must be something else . You only have to ask for money from the rich to know that the mathematics of happiness does not include the joy of giving for most of them (statistically poor people do enjoy giving more (so put that in your excel chart and smoke it )
The Australia Institute are on a search for happiness sources ( Well being survey ). If its as fruitful as the search for comedy at the moment,, they might have to think a bit more laterally to actually ask for the right descriptors " .
me thinks AI's ambition is infact a sign of the disease in our society - most people aren't prepared to look widely enough to answer this question .
The answer is clearly that it's a bit spiritual- and spiritual doesn't sit well with many .The herd is not a good modelling agent AI
Jesus is quoted as saying Happiness is actually to do with NOT having things .( Matthew 5:3) He's a bit weird; right out there even.
But is He right? He claims to be God and if he's right this might be the big picture universe picture.
So there goes the value of a democratic survey - most people are not "there yet" so you can't trust them to know about being millionaires .The majority may also still believing the TV or the group , the talk or whatever ; unlikely to say No to status they haven't yet got ; an exoperinece they haven't had .
BUT It must be something else . You only have to ask for money from the rich to know that the mathematics of happiness does not include the joy of giving for most of them (statistically poor people do enjoy giving more (so put that in your excel chart and smoke it )
The Australia Institute are on a search for happiness sources ( Well being survey ). If its as fruitful as the search for comedy at the moment,, they might have to think a bit more laterally to actually ask for the right descriptors " .
me thinks AI's ambition is infact a sign of the disease in our society - most people aren't prepared to look widely enough to answer this question .
The answer is clearly that it's a bit spiritual- and spiritual doesn't sit well with many .The herd is not a good modelling agent AI
Jesus is quoted as saying Happiness is actually to do with NOT having things .( Matthew 5:3) He's a bit weird; right out there even.
But is He right? He claims to be God and if he's right this might be the big picture universe picture.
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