Duncan Storrar should be poorer.
We know about the ‘trickle down effect’, and those on the lowest rung know it best. It’s a sham, a shibboleth, and it ‘don’t mean a God-damn thing’. But as the disparity between the ‘have’s and the have nots’ becomes a yawning abyss, there’s been a lot more hectoring lately. All of it judgemental. Because at the core of conservatism is judgmentalism. It’s axiomatic. ‘You’ve gotta be right to be right’.
We are indebted to the first Australians in showing us how the establishment owns the rulebook. It goes like this; Invade the country. Exterminate. Quarantine the survivors and subject them to perpetual second tier-dom, as untermensch. Patronise them. After a while they’ll get used to it. And when they ask for more of the cake, you’ll tell em; ‘You ungrateful bastard, that’s your second helping this century, How dare you’! Then, quick as a flash, just to remind then how impoverished, disgraced, lowly and debased they are, youll punish them just a little bit harder. Do an Intervention. Keeps em in their place. And the joke is, all the stuff you flogged from them, you never ever paid a cent for. Crime never paid so well.
In Ireland it was a national sport for centuries, it only gets hottest when the establishment feels threatened. That’s how we civilised Australia with Convicts, To cleanse the ‘ol country’. The establishment had it up to here with wastrels wanting something after they had their land taken away. Poverty is always ungrateful. The Establishment is likened to a wounded Triceratops. When vulnerable they have to go for the king hit, and make sure that hook or by crook that principle of authority and respect/fear is upheld. To dare question it you’re in BIG BIG Trouble.
That’s what happened to Duncan Storrar, (heads will roll again at the ABC) he was quite right on stating that ‘living on fuck all is no fun’. For daring to ask for more of the pie he was smacked down by the establishment. That’s Rupert and his mates. They’re threatened.
People are even questioning the inequitable negative gearing rort. Real Estate agents are threatened. Some bastard questioned, the asylum seeker policy. The big lie might unravel. Then just to top it off some poor bastard had the temerity to question the entire justification for the election to determine union sovereignty by suggesting that it was a lower order issue that the electorate didn’t give a stuff about. How dare they!
Now some activist lefty wanker is questioning the four dollar an hour slavery rate. They’re saying it’s akin to being paid subsistence for menial work that any dumb prick could do. How Ungrateful is that!! ( Excuse me, these are not my words, just the vocabulary in the most recent “the little jobs are sacred report’ from the IPA. Ed. ) That’s why we’re talking about jobs and growth. It’s Profits and Slavery.
But don’t you dare criticise it! If you’re poor you clearly don’t have a handle on economics and the trickle down effect. And if you continue to argue we’ll just have to drag you through the dirt and turn the bloody tap off. ‘Kick him when he’s down’!! Queensbury’s Rules!!…..O.K? We have a massive increase in endangered species, the climate is in meltdown and that’s not an issue in this election. The bankers are vulnerable. The P.M tells us; ‘Real estate Agents are vulnerable’, they’re just hanging on. If we’re not nice to them it’s Economic DOOM! They’re endangered!! The corporates who pay no tax. The bankers, the dodgy vocational colleges, they’re vulnerable. But, they’ve shown what it takes, They have the right stuff!! God given by the cheerleaders for the highest tier, those wunderkinds of the imaginative impulse, the Real Estate agents.
Visionaries from the Property Council.
The Real government of Australia.
And they tell it straight. They’ve got a handle on History. There’s mock Tudor, Georgian and French Empire and Italiante in your leafier suburbs and out here in the bush it’s brick veneer, and neo colonial.
A simple reality, no one likes Modern.
Modernism affronts to cherished standards of decency taste and decorum. It’s a house built by a fuckin architect. Modernism is anti establishment. Modern values are akin to treason. The establishment is strong on Punishment. And your principles aint worth a goddam thing.
Welcome to the future. It’s Past!