Reactionaries are lost when the unexpected happens

 Reactionaries are always lost when the unexpected happens. That's because they anticipate nothing. Evelyn Waugh ( SCOOP) tried to remind the West that our often blind and reactionary leaders only think they are addressing the pressures in the ecosystem. Full on, head steam and off target.  
They turn up at Bondi and wonder why bad things happen. Jacinta Allan's police minister , Mr Carbine is predictably without a weapon ready. ( the very word weapon frightens them )

Then when a bigger disaster happens up north in Sydney  he  quickly throws heaps of money at Sunday police surveillance at....... you got it , the football .   Mistargeting in a huge way. Mr Carbines doesn't offer to turn up at prominent risk sites or arrest anyone who disturbs the fragile gift of protest with ANY provocative words and symbols.  His own department know he is not facing up to provocateurs and disruptors --- but does he ? No not until he and Jacina are pushed !  Proactive policing would run too deep for them and even the polys up north .  

 Let the peace  of protest not be broken. If the courts are full as a result of stirrers, so be it . At least that way we might know " who started it ". Our reactionary leaders are blind as bats to evil.
Having not identified where it comes from , they will have no hope of addressing it  
More here 

Suicidal Empathy

There is no getting away from it.
Science has finally caught up with describing a phenomenon that point 's directly at the reason for the panic on the left that now surrounds them and now in our Western post Christian and post backbone societies generally: Incompetence and maladaptive empathy for starters  



Gad Sadd has put the conclusion in print .
Look it up and see how it applies to you and your community.  
Let us all know what you think of the completeness or otherwise of his vision . Some will naturally and simply say "he's just tapping into the dangers of migrant hysteria and paranoia ", but please read it first.  






The lesson for us all , is not to be crushed by another persons  deeply challenging experience, but to observe the rocks before they fall again on us, and our children. Tidy our own house first. 
Just because you see disaster on your screen, or hear it proclaimed by the dying prophets of doom who  are desperately trying to keep your attention, doesn't mean it's serious or serious enough for your adrenalin rushes to be fully satisfied each day ( Telecom 2000 report  on Futures ) 

We are all better off once people compete to close the gaps in our understanding - and address our fears. That investigation detailed, we must understand and deal with our information overload and learn how to switch the ABC and others OFF. The legacy media are in a fanatical mood,  trying to keep our attention by filling us with a technocolor yawn mix of sweet and nice talking lollies, mere facts and their chosen drips under pressure; all with a white cloak of competence they wouldn't even know to wear it.  

We haven't really grown up if we fail to address our fears, stop name calling and get what's good from the past

People who like to see themselves as Progressive got a huge shock when the strangest of Presidents got elected in November this year .
 No Surprise to thoughtful historians like Brecht, Orwell and Ferguson
This adjustment should not be a surprise to any thinking person because the slack old hopefuls and dilatants are always at risk of dreaming too much as a consequence of their comfortable new rich incumbencies. The tax takers are now in majority and it's the tax takers who want things to keep going their ways. 
The obvious old target, that need for Marxist doctrine, "the Bloody Big rich lot " has gone, but not the driver  for it - disguised greed; there will always be a" need" for that hidden driver and for its nature to be hid. ."The Bloody Big rich lot "are no longer mining and big business leaders but shareholders and big wage-earners. 
As long as the teachers, contractors and drip feeders on the tax aren't seen, no one who can afford to buy the paper will realize that the cheque takers are the new rich and potential enemies of the poor. Yet  Marxism is still a convenient facade for the left and a very effective one for keeping all sorts of dark crap of their own making inside. True justice requires the full truth that most Marxists resist and the elements like greed and envy . let alone true productivity that are never digested in their ramshackle old joint.  
 Confusion - who really is dependant and who is productive ? 
The really dependant poor should not be left out ( if we really cared) just because the really big tax takers are now in majority.  You can justify anything with good intention, but if it's just them and us ( them bad we good ) talk and nothing works, the place is bound to fall over .   The confusion  results in phenomonon like total dependency , jobs not careers, experimentation without precision and ill discipline in subsidy and so on .The government meddling in  eco incentives is another abortion as its grown like cancer.   The governments technicolour yawn is out the door, and rightly so. 
Dumb ,half-baked or Smart -- its our choice?
And yes, as Ferguson points out so well, Trump's ascendancy is risky because we are always at war . And whether it's a hot war inside or a cold war outside , we can still achieve things if we are open and not stupid, but alert and vigilant.  Rejecting greed and truly facing need. 

Many of the new hopefuls come with concrete real world visons, and real world science in practice . This is a needed push back against the deadening dependencies ( and cynicism)  of recent decades; too much half baked untested incompetence and experimentation that does nothing to enliven the minds and hearts and actions of our young people : That failure to launch is in itself a very serious failure of my generation.
 
These strong reality checks have come before, and are needed to stop idealism, inexperience, patronizing and down right incompetence and fear from substituting for real world science learning , mentoring and inspiration. There are too many degrees and incentives offered and not enough on ground learning and the discipline of mentoring ....and our  Regions know this; The country is being starved 
We will not get competency through the screen. The key Conservation that works will not come with tyrants parenting us in oikonomia  or with  rough reactionary wannabe ideas of bullying or incentivizing.  Our resource rich and creative young people need inspiration . 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGsz4kh2ZWM&t=4713s  +

We are not really at war till we start laughing at ourselves

  In the week before the USA elections  ( November 1 2024 ) that place and ours has never seemed more divided. 

Maybe we are a bit lost for options?
Maybe we just don't want to face the face that we have failed and don't want to see ourselves as  we really are . 

https://www.konstantinkisin.com/p/my-shocking-report-from-inside-trumps

We are not at war still we stop talking

 In the week before the USA elections  ( November 1 2024 ) that place and ours has never seemed more divided 
Maybe nothings changed? 
Maybe we are a bit lost for options?
A great observer of previous wars said this 

"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint.
Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.  
—Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History  

The wrong people are making all the noise

Stamping your foot, making a lot of noise and self righteous anger are not going to cut it -- especially with thinking experienced people 

Will just one adult stand up and be counted?

The mad collection of immature noise makers all around us at the moment , should, I suggest, remind us that all candidates standing for election need to be more rigorously tested for their commitment to really listen to  local and experienced people.  

There have never been so many starry eyed meeting members who just want the glory of office, and who by quitting once they become Mayor, or whatever , show they lack eldership, and  responsibility, let alone any real willingness to face their own inability to make tough real world decisions and not get distracted in huge reams of consultant reports. 

A term of office on our Council ( or Parliament ) is not going to change the atmosphere of the earth, and by trying to do that by long loud appeals and pushing, you will only  annoy those of us who know much better ways of getting things done  than just following the paper and popular political noisemakers trail.

Humility and application to common household tasks ( see JB Peterson)  goes a long way to develop the sort of competence we all want to see in candidates. .

Perhaps you, the reader, if you have time to really listen and have business experience, should stand?

After all, if you already listen and want to change your district for the better, there are plenty of people not only willing, but very  able to help you.

They are the sort of wonderful people all around  you who not only have successfully contributed their own resources in a patch, but know how to make those things work well. 

Chasing big bad bogeymen

 One day not far away the current Victorian governments sending us broke will be seen for what it is. 
The list of big bad bogeymen including ( just one for today ) 

1. The evil agent invented by Andrews ie COVID

 One day not far away the current Australian governments sending us broke will be seen for what it is. 
The list of big bad bogeymen including ( just one for today ) 

•        1.The evil agent of CO2 
  
•            The evil children of the former  GAS