Back, by popular demand is the Weekly Wrap!

And what better welcome than a quote from Errol – Flynn, that is.
“If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is part of living nature.” from ‘My wicked wicked ways” by Errol Flynn 1959

This past week in Passive Complicity has been a bottler.  It started with a piece by George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12th November 2013 titled ‘Why politics fails’ in which he says “Nothing will change until we confront the real sources of power.”

“Take a letter, Miss Michael” are the words WC Fields used to start our second post for the week.  This seriously complex piece defies précis.  Read it here, and don’t laugh.

Cecil Poole then entered the fray adding fueld to the carbon debate.  Carbon is Taxing discusses the “plague of Prii” in US University towns, and the corporate citizenship of Chevron. (And defines ‘Prii’ as the plural of Prius).

‘Man as Machine’ (XII) returned to our site as Tarquin O’Flarherty in which he quoted Robert Owen from the early nineteenth Century as ‘suggesting that the workers were at least as important as the owners and that they should share in the profits’  More of this socialist claptrap will see him banned from our presents – no, presence.  Our disgruntled illustrator, Sir Selwyn Smuttz, came up with this parochial banner, which in all truth is not at all bad.  (This will placate him)

Our penultimate post the Editor of that excellent magazine Tracker, Chris Graham helps us “understand Indigenous Justice”, using the case of Liam Jurrah as an example.  This article should be required reading for all Australians.

The week finished with Jonathon Swift’s poem “A description of the morning”.  Our Poetry Editor Ira Maine provides exquisite, understated, and provocative commentary.  This commentary will lead to further posts on how and why the denigration of women continues.

Good reading, join the conversation.

Cheers
Cecil Poole