Politica Celeste

Never try to solve a problem you haven't defined

2012-02-19T18:53:00.000-08:00

Gosky review in education funding .
Sometime politicians are best to let someone else solve problems - The fact that any policy is "incoherent" and " not transparent " to polys is completely understandable . To make it so may well be to make it too simple . The fact that Bob and Julia are preoccupied with money fixing the problems shows they are both completely out of touch .

The last meddle ( building program ) lost more good teachers because they didn't respect existing process . Another meddle is likely to do the same . Causus and Bob Brown love change because they are reactionaries rather than real revolutionaries.
The cost benefit of Julia's incentives is going to go into history as bigger and worser meddling than anything Jeff K tried .Catholic schools are not equitable funded NOW so whay would they ever be with this clear attempt to better fund government schools.

Because they can't and haven't defined what "advantage" means, its more go nowhere atmospheric level moeddelling ( a now common degrading combination of meddling hidden by the smoke haze created by modelling ) The only view they have checked is that government schools will probably get more money than the existing underfunded Catholic schools in particular . Is the word Fair really going to work for fairness?

Such reactionary "car picture policy " is largely driven by a desperate policy defined not by its solution, but driven by simple political panic about State schools being abandoned by parents , teachers and the like .
Like the building program that preceded it is likely to fail . Like it has done in our district, it acn be expected to create MORE quickfiz nonsense that categorized the last funding round

The press have only got to ask former state teachers why they left and why they think many teachers stay . Todays' talk should start there and not meddle and model itself into a another mess .
This is a car without wheels and all the talk of "nuts and bolts" by spokesmen rather said so
Worse, they and Green labor haven't realised that to reach the goal of incentive to learn, its not all about money.
To allow yourself to accept the label disadvantage is to let the label stick and make the people sick. . This $ driven mere description problem driven nonsense was best exemplified by MR Jeff Kennett ;
Jeff Kennett will go down in history as one who meddled, and by confusing the role of business and governance set a new and much lower benchmark for government performance review .Instead of making Govts more accountable the process is thanks to his ideas less accountable ,bigger and more expensive.
One presumes that Labor are desperate and dumb enough to follow Him Parents and former good teachers from the State system are choosing church schools because of the attitude at such places, and the stumbling meddling responses of some out of touch wannabes who don't even respect the real workers in that industry ( ABC should interview former teachers !) .
"tough choices talk" and " this is the most important thing we have .... " is used to empower and distract listeners from the reality that the idea is driven by reaction rather than a knowledge of needed action.- as do --the five categories which look like some way to set direction - wait and see them being abandoned.

The god assumption

2011-12-14T16:46:00.000-08:00

Our growing bureaus and their reactive focus is clearly a result of our pollies feeding their own image with god assumptions for themselves .
They can and will FIX the biggest of problems ; global warming ; global climate change , The Murray Darling , Our excessive use of water electricity gas and whatever .

To do that they have to maintain the fear and the speed . They have to maintain the idea that dangers are immanent ( where their allegiance with the media is so dangerous ) and that's where taxes must be spent . Witness the growth of emergency management agencies ( the crywolf's ) and the dearth of prevention and sound planning agencies.

Passenges who want to join the slower more sustainable peace train look no further
Maintaining the idea that dangers are immanent means that modern politics is glued onto an allegiance with the media .
As a result MEDIA credibility is at all time low . Our ABCTV ( medium being easy message) must show some vigilance if its not to fall for all the noise.and science jobs ( study the source of growth and prevention strategies ) just window dressing .

Aren't We are just so clever

2011-12-01T16:02:00.000-08:00

If we are clever and comfortable, its probably got more to do with those who went before us than our own brilliance. Sound party politics accepts this, but doesn't always say this . After all , an element of conservatism is present in all good politics ( do we not love our country and its history of democratic process.); The parliament before the party for eg .
Perhaps ,as long as you don't believe everything you say in defence of your party ( the Labor party conference today is in defence mode) you are on safe ground .
MOVING FORWARD and SHAPING THE FUTURE are slogans of the lemming drivers so should we trust the current leaders.
As usual the Left is danger of defining itself in reaction. The reactionaries in the Left need to make up their minds whether the devil they know ( our democracy and its conservatism ) is better than all the ones that they have listened to and failed to prove in their lifetime of blowing the budgets . The idea that they can move on by following the Greens in being "all things to all men" is of course to commit yourself to outer space in the long term. Change is good talk may just mean you just don't know what's worth sticking to.(The real answer to Rudd's question) Marriage provides the basis for stability and saving. The key resilience element in our society that the Left are losing touch with. ( my point is that the reactionaries are the most likely group to fall for a technological fix=one of the biggest waste areas in modern times. Reactionaries talk about a need ( like resilience) not because they know how to grow it , but because they specialize in recognizing a problem ( if not a solution) . Doing what you feel like is short term gain ,long term pain.- they see, like many , the first 3 words but not the last 3 words). Reactionaries can see the start ,but seldom see the much greater importance of the finish line ( so critical to really celebrating conservatism as we all should in Australia)

As usual the Left is danger of defining itself in reaction. Unless Labor finds a way to care ( The parties rightful place ) that isn't just indulgence, it will keep wanting more taxes than WE are prepared, or even able, to give . You heard it first from Emperors Academy.

Finals matches are played by the rules - each team gets a go

2011-11-30T14:41:00.000-08:00

Good politics is always practical . But practical isn't easy at the best of times. A good fair fight is often needed.
These aren't the best of times because we aren't allowed to be aggressive in a room like we are in the playground.
Worse, the noise, if any, is largely coming from left field and even from the audience , with some of the players who don't seem to know the rules or respect them : not even playing by the rules .( the rules were meant to be broken?)
Even our own ABCTV is playing quarters instead of full finals games ; While I love some of them ( arts Q) the "for real ones" are often not fair dinkum ( WeatherQ is a front for climate and Environment Q a front for political defence of popular causes )
Also , if we are going to have cultural grabs Q in 15 minutes, let the diverse elements of our culture write their own pieces ! Reporters are not players and neither are they umpires . Mr Mr mark Scott ----lead your team!

Very poor God substitutes

2011-11-27T15:26:00.000-08:00

If you listen to them , the most marginal Government in our history is able to work miracles.And by contrast we are such dummies. If they take off water restrictions, we will go back to being wallies and scare campaigns are the only way to prevent deaths ( new Fire ads come because the last message was ignored ) . Bribery and corruption( if you insult the people's intelligence, the thinking ones will ignore you ) Insult and arrogance .
Albanez is so out of touch he celebrates the AMOUNT OF LEGISLATION the Feds have passed this year . Its not parenting and governance - it groping around in the dark . Worse for our culture, built on a specific balance between liberty and law, its more paper warfare , petty crime crap and legal leggings for everyone. Transport us to Tasmania please!

Psychologists would say the god people may well have got a disease called denial and projection; The result of having this disease is that you pretend you have power you don't even remotely have it ( knowledge is power for a start) - let alone the fact that you won't be at all effective because half hearted efforts just waste taxes - big time ; The bigger the problem , the bigger the waste. Preoccupation with raw power and ads ( why air your ignorance by using slogans?) ignores the fact that the main effective way to build prevention strategies in the face of risk is to build self respect and self understanding by ditching slogans and encouraging specific education based on a respect for freedom and a minimum of laws . Many animals do it better than us !
When the mindset is out of this world , the worldly budget is blown real easy - and these gods don't even know it .
Having just rested from hugging celebrations over how they have modelling how to change the atmosphere by "putting a price on one loose part of it " They have started bribing kids to be well behaved at school . The new clothes look good to them, but those who can stand back can see through them ( Clearly a price on C is poorly targeted and will just hurt us and do nothing about Co2 levels)

The gods in charge NOW also think they can tell The States how to manage their water . The MDC can't even define an environmental flow ( its a critical consideration ) , let alone explain it to those it will affect .
Having discovered the new techno fix of price controls, the dummies want to offer bribes to get kids to behave well at school when the price controls on water ( imposed by some states ) just made some brokers rich and some farmers broke . Economic pigmys ?
The gods don't dare take off water restrictions lest they lose control of common sense,( as if they have it) ; they don't confess they've already been sleeping while their ignorant and fearprone collegues wasted zillions on desal. We are not short of water - but they haven't worked that out yet .
Ask any good teacher ( not pollies ) and they will tell you : Sometime the problems we see with children are really a problem generated by the parents , or those who think themselves nannies. God only knows the damage we do by thinking we know .
The nannies will wet themselves if they ever see how little they really see.

Is price now the only paradigm for motivation?

2011-10-21T16:03:00.000-07:00

The current fascination with paymore politics (based on financial incentives and taxes ) is a clear sign of desperation in our democracies - esp in relation to conservation ( which ,because it doesn't seem to come naturally to many, causes desperation with the market worshipers who rely on mechanisms that make natural or should i say simple trading sense .Household economics is never as simple as the market . Ask anyone who has tried to run their homes like they run their agencies .
You see our forefathers in the West have always used incentives, but they used them in well targeted way ; What is precarious with giving the whole country a virus , is that we won't know we are sick and uncompetitive till its too late. What is that big weight of bureau we all say - even now ! Because conservation policies can destroy competitive edge policies, the tax must be known to work eventually for better growth ( be really well placed and targeted ) Any paint job to dress them up as acceptable, is just a waste of time .Has a waste of time ever stopped anyone from going down that road ?
Relying on the idea of the market origins of everything,( Could be like allowing the rich to survive because they are best fitted to survive ) is that such mechanisms are trusted to have miracle working power they clearly do not.

Without proper targeting , taxes are just taxes ( but what poly's care if they get handed , on a plate a reason for some more of them. Australia's Carbon Tax) If nothing , it's a chance for our poly's to do some good in this world - something we mere Plebes don't seem to be able to do for ourselves . We are being forced to be good and . well ....they know what's good for us- at least they think they do. It was pretty obvious they thought so as they kissed and hugged each other when the legislation went through last week . There was no caution amongst those Fabians, from the greatest of all Fabians who thought that the greatest evil is often done in the name of the best intention - Its" just not possible ". "The decision feels so right " and "that's what God made us like didn't he" ? Its alright by him - isn't it ( not that we have checked ) ???"
Clearly if you accept nothing in this note you might be persuaded by this tug at the forelocks of angels who aren't, we think, there , to consider that the feeling of human powerlessness is the main driver for grabbing at a source of power that is , at best , only partial. Men ,it seems to some of our leaders, have no decent motivation , apart form that which we, the good government , provide for them . Worse, the toolbox we inherited from our forebears is now considered by the consensus ness of wise "out of date, crude and somehow inefficient and cumbersome and therefore" irrelevant" ( that great old excuse of the unthinking ) .Something simple is very popular with a lot of people, and Carbon Tax is just that - very simple . ( so simple that PM Julia thought they ( normally such untrustworthy sorts ) could sell it by using shoe leather. ( the expectation and the reality, at the time, suggest she was hanging, as we suggest, from cloud nine on this )

The only weapon left for the government in conservation policy is the one of the enemies weapons - the motivation of price ( So is the market really still an enemy ? We are taxing 50 BIG businesses - now thats the only enemy left NOW . No NOW we are not against the system the capitalists use, just the product - sounds beautifully simple logic to me. As Ellul said, if you focus on what you want , you will get it somehow. If you worry too much about how you won't see it coming and catch the wave of marketing the how

Taking away choice used to be considered SINful in the West .But its Ok-- the best intentions are involved . The presumption of justified action to take away our power to choose is not a small one-- that , at least , was an issue raised before such taxes were introduced.
The deceptive part of the present push in Victoria has been the small nature of the increase .
The way we are going in Australia , the tax budget will lose itself on the hunt for that perfect price for discouraging disobedience . The dummies only need look around the corner at the rich to see whose worried by the price rise they think does so much good in improving behaviour .If only they had taken the 2nd lessons in proper accountancy they would know that margins are the key decsion makers and wouldn't be so keen on their careless distortions . The rich and wasteful are not worried . This silly simplicity comes directly via grand indifference from the conjoined twin babies of the worship of technique and denial of the dual nature of man within the advisors .
My point is , our forefathers used reasoning with the regard to financial disincentives in particular because sometimes the majority regarded some choices as bad .In the case of the Carbon Tax just living is Bad, therefore everyone pays . The reasoning used to make punchy the impact and identified the SIN . Post modern taxes don't dare punching anyone ( rather we just hope that by spreading them thinly , noone will notice them ) risk accusing anyone of a particular SIN except the universal sin of being ( eg farting, eating and producing carbon dioxide ) Some would rightly say that universal taxes can infact be appropriate where the people n general can't visualise the problem-- but that is a much bigger topic for another day.
My problem is really not with taxes but the overblown presumptions of motivation that are currently being attached to them
Somehow the left , in particular, have stopped believing ( if they ever did ) in their old gurus of reason( like Rouseau ) . The left have finally confessed what they have been denying most of their lives " People are not good and they don't listen .." So now in 2011we are at a point of agreement . But as a far as what we do about the problem , no agreement. We do not accept that old quickfix " men neeed to be forced to be good " that is now their clear modus operandi
I personally think the state of the left is a reflection of their age and their situation in history and the history of their own failed ideas . Having denied their inheriance in the idea of fallen man they now have to face it as reality ( all the education and revolution in education is not enough) . With the triots in the UK ( or whatever sound facts reflect social instability, like the numbers of women bringing up children without a partner) -- we are forced back to square one to think square one again .
having denied mum and dad the role of hard handedness they take it up themselves . Dr Phil said yeasreday that you can't understand a problem ( like anger) until you accept in yourself .
Change in direction ( the seed of good conservation ) comes not from charging higher entrance fees at Disneyworld (or more correctly Marketworld -MW) but making people aware that MW is not always the best possible way to get most of what you need.
Infact , if you have more than one way to get to somewhere , you have more motivation to both go places, enjoy the view and get around the costly and distracted pedantry of those who think only one road is the raod to take. ( If not below the belt just a little too low?)

Jesus turned the public interest in the local disaster of Siloam (a local tower crushing people) around to remind the audience that the unstable buildings of our own making crowd in around us and are well able to crush us completely . Sustainability was on his mind ;he was determined to try to prevent more building collapses. The market may just see collapses as just more opportunities for the rich to make more more easily , leaving democracy out there in the cold ( as it seems to be doing with OCCUPY messages )
Democracies only work , like Jesus's words , if they cut somewhere on prevention . The trouble with slowly turning up the heat can be that we get deformed and denial prone logic from the victims of a non lethal but heavy collision.- instead of conservation of momentum and speed in another direction.

Slow cooking the frogs

2011-10-10T16:05:00.000-07:00

Labor caucus think they are very clever--They are, but not convincing or competent. Following the very old and dumb idea that you can have a tax without having a tax - a Claytons tax.

Instead of targeting the trouble, they call all the people trouble .Works for a while - till the people smell projection .Provided they are not cooked first .
Even the ABCTV jounos think its a good idea not realising that when the worlds use of fossil fuels decreases in ten years time -these fast moving flighty types will be saying " it was all their doing" . Brilliant heavenly politics .
They take the religious nature of our constituency and use it .
Beats ignoring it like the media have been for years.

Invisible foundations come with the invisible clothes

2011-10-05T16:42:00.001-07:00

This weeks Tax summit may have been good for a laugh ( people yawning everywhere) but it was seriuosly stupid also in both form and content .
Other blogs of mine in recent times reflect on the increasing occupation of positions of high office by children or trusting souls who move where angels fear to tread . My faith knows no such territory either here on earth or in families . Such places are pure fiction supported only by the plethora of smoothed over television equivalents of fantasy that try to tell us what we don't want to hear -- we are not all friends and we don't all like what we do to each other
To try pack them in under the rafters is to risk certaing an almighty explosion - in real life .

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/George_Santayana/

Who will rescue us from this body of decomposing elements

2011-09-07T15:59:00.000-07:00

Politicians of most sides take up the high moral ground with a vengeance ; in words so welcome but in actions often failing to deliver us in practice .These people want us to give them more when they sell off what we once had . At what cost will our telecommunication sell off cost this country? John Howard sounds very statesman like but its easy when his party is in opposition .

Keep talking .
Some good ideas are sure to come from people like you before they become obvious to people like them ( copyright Emperors academy)

Doesn't add up - albanese

2011-06-27T05:38:00.000-07:00

Credibility evaporates when polys talk about settled science without a scientist present. qanda is not credible but katter (real or parodied) is funny real which makes him rare and then the best part of the show .

Dreamy dumb talk

2011-02-23T18:57:00.000-08:00

When is a tax not a tax - when you don't call it one . when you call it a price .
When will a tax not work - when you can't see it or put it in a bank and measure it -which is most of the time with carbon . Whatabout when you can see it , its often changing into something else that even the smartest of meters can't measure .

Why Oakshott and Windsor would back it is a mystery - rich people don't mind paying a small tax but regional people are killed by em.

Labor's big weakness -

2010-11-27T15:05:00.000-08:00

Lack of value based judgement . allowing people to do what they like - esp powerful .
Siding with The Greens means they recognise the need ( for values) but lack the judgement . The Greens are shallow in both areas ( eg like everyone to do what they like ) .which means they rise to the top of the media and children in charge grab .
Thankfully the end result on the ground of every changing directions of this game of buying into more new toys in investment and research is obvious to the people ( Myki , outrageous water and energy disinvestment, you name it ) Brumby as a good leader still can't see that he has let the children run amok. I hope he resigns soon to remind them of what's really been happening.

Thankfully for those of us who have wanted the government to ignore the Greens and listen to the competent on environment it appears the high water mark for Greens has arrived .

There are none so lost as those who don't know their own weaknesses

2010-09-06T19:54:00.000-07:00

For a parliament that will need all the help it can get, the idea of putting something before prayer is very symbolic. A denial and guilt trip that infects our attitude to ourselves and our country and our heritage - we think we know what we are doing and we know how to get there . Whomever tries to lead this country over the next .....months . will need super human help, wisdom and strength - just to get through it , let alone get something sensible through . You heard it first on blogger

Labor continues to reach for the Stars

2010-03-07T14:25:00.000-08:00

After flying too high in outer space with their hot air policies, you would think Cabinet would be out to clip the wings of the wannabees; The cost of all this space travel could cost them their jobs . First, its the education revolution and NOW , this week its the health system revolution .
Thinking lefties ought to smell a rat - the one that calls itself "revolution" when its real name is "reactionary" rat ( leaves you when it feels like it too) .
How long can the spaceship antics remain attractive, let alone credible to a public once in awe of the possibilities. What is it about the polys , and just as importantly , what is it about the public mindset that keeps this grand dialectic and expensive tour going .

The imagery of church is helpful . Various news commentators have noted this last few weeks the presence of some normally nontalk words in the conversation . "Confession , Redemption". What does it all mean?
What this brief window of religion talk means is the media like to run a smoothing over "niceness policy " ( trying to maintain readership by pleasing everybody /sort of?) - sit on the hard basket till it explodes under them . They are hoping the tough stuff will go away .But it never goes away . Denial about our need for a worldview is not healthy mentally . The media sense many are uncomfortable and if anything , want more comfort talk - talk of power .
They are happy to talk politics all day . "Don't talk religion but lets' talk politics all day " seems to be the moral drive of modern media journalism - until recent days . Even the Aethists this week , while they may be into nontalk mode on the same words, will find its rather hard to describe the problem with religion --- unless they talk about it .

So back to the church -If you are finding it difficult to be there, you are not alone - The rigid confines of religion - fair enough-- its like going to the dentist? . It may help if you just imagine this congregation came together mainly to talk about their good intentions . Like a Labor conference - only spare the thought, more religious.
Rudd gets up and confesses - "We did wrong"
Gillard gets up and , while not confessing as such , she reads the creed with a passion -"Haven't had one for a while so here it is ! Its called "a curriculum " . She sits down and the congregation are moved to sing in celebration. "Stand up stand up for grammar, good colon use is marching on , forth to the mighty conflict our langauge is going wrong " .The tune from the school of mere description hymnbook titled; Misplaced concreteness.
The priest then reads the prayer "we confess that we don't think its a good thing that we all go our own way .We need some Doctrine and some guidance so our language and the past denial of this reality is acknowledged ."
The sermon for today comes from the gospel of monitoring ( imagine HG wells type character writing this) . "Gird you loins people " "We need to watch our selves lest we fall into temptation of thinking we know best - overservicing . We are going to monitor you doctors and nurses.etc etc . We will ALL be blessed by having more people watch over you .http://bureaubrats.blogspot.com/---that way we will have the very best health system in the world . You will be paid on compliance. We are here to work together on this .
Time for your tithes (GST) and offerings please !
I could go on .
And so it goes . Psychologists tell us that overcompensation and projection is common . Perhaps this struggle for ultimate power is a form of fanaticism -A denial of our own sense of powerlessness.

Going to church is good if it helps you keep your perspective and your "sense of control". If it helps you face your powerlessness and start back on a solid base . Maybe if the media and the wannbes stopped trying to tell the quiet achievers in the front row what to do, much of this careless talk from the front bench would be less dreamlike. How long before the front pews lose their best and closest supporters ? - That's reality therapy isn't it - "what the people in both education and health want isn't it" . Some earthly use - "leave us alone " ,would be more like it - "Help us to get on with the job -more beds more docs ".
Final blessing on our leaders. "If you not sure ask !, and it shall be given to you , knock and the door will open; seek and you will be surprised at how much more fun it is coming back to earth , than living in denial."

Atheists meet to save the world as we know it

2010-02-28T20:29:00.000-08:00

The passionate meeting of religious nutbreakers in Melbourne next week would make an interesting psychological study. They want to get rid of organized religions , but seem to be acting just like them. Some questions for observers might be
What will be in evidence there for:
- confession ( " all humans seem to need a god of some kind" )
- projection (ie "takes one to know one ")
- deep reality ("God , whoever you think he/she is is not here , there or anywhere!" "we can prove it !")
- no heretical talk (God talk is banned )
- competition ("my god is better than your god")
- denial ( "I am not religiuos "; "My neighbour is not like me at all "
- fanaticism Check out the post conference POST HERE

Amongst other things , the unbelievers are promoting the conference as a means of freeing the world from "blinkered" thinking.
Why wouldn't a less reactionary and closed framework provide a better paradigm for lateral thinking than the one that they reckon stiffles reality thinking ( the categories above) .
Worse, if the psychologists are right (we all invent gods) maybe failure to admit this reality maybe their BIG stumbling block to progress NEXT WEEK.

The Laws of Maths Physics and Chemistry

2010-02-28T20:15:00.000-08:00

There must be more than a few wannabes just a little worried about a politician led recovery in Education . Julia Gillards announcements today
Philosphers might be wondering too about signs of giantism, let alone reactionary rather than revolutionary, or dare i use my own word, befficent ( non invasive government ) medicine
Not the least also the many good science and maths teachers who have moved alreday to church schools ( where are the stats cf Hype here )
The NTFS scheme was classic waste of money because it too was too focused on discredited paradigms of educational science in practice needs

The real disease in education hasn't been discovered by the wannbes YET - otherwise the treatment would be more befficient.

Fixed flaws of Libertarian Fundamentalism

2009-06-02T17:11:00.000-07:00

Real leaders can say No. Politicians need to say No - not easy, but neccesary. Even more important Political parties who want to be real, need to a rationale de politica to say no.
Libertarians can't say no - neither in practice , nor in theory . Libertarian Fundamentalism leads directly to woosiness. Political parties harbouring LF need to be aware of that dangerous connection so they can have some hope of exorcising it from the kindergarten games of politik celestia a that will lose them office .
After all sometimes political demands demand real protection - real protection for children
or for those who have no voice from those who make all the noise. Copyright (including the original name - EAcademy)