Thursday, November 29, 2007
How To Build An Imbecile III
The astonishing thing about Graham Young is not that he's the chief editor of Online Opinion, or that he's vice-president of Queensland Liberal Party, or even that he's wrap up of the election was published in the satirical newspaper, TheAustralian; no the really astonishing thing is that this bloke has enough brain cells to remember how to breathe.
Here's another Ostrich, with his head in the sand, ignoring the unpalatable truth that the Your Rights At Work Campaign is a machine made of people, thousands of 'em.
Young is another dill peddling the spin doctor's myths.
Just how dissolute this reaction is can be measured by the fact that even the Washington Post gets it, 14,000 kilometres away from the end of Graham Young's nose, as this excellent piece from E.J. Dionne Jnr (now that's a Septic handle if ever I heard one) explains.
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Phil, That would be about the worst article from the neo-cons I have seen it is true. Fancy a 12 month campaign??!!! As if all politics these days is not campaigning from election to election as the opnion polls are tracked and anlaysed, as the ex PM Keating commented a few months ago.
More to the point, unsuring that thr R@W campaign does not wither and die are the priorities as we seek to link the environment, as you say THE issue now, with workers rights and futures. Not too hard a task I would think but something the big heads resist resolutely.
On Counterpunch today there ia a good little article about flexitime:
Flex-Time and the Future of White Collar Women
The Most Dangerous Kind of Bribe
By R. F. BLADER http://www.counterpunch.org/blader11292007.html
and what is does to family and free time. How workers and employers have been conned. The home based worker is included here..
Working more to earn less per hour has become the norm for those who voted for the ALP. The Greens appeal to those who see this from a point of view of "Non-battlers" but who feel they were quickly being turned into them by the relentless demands of productivity and flexibility.
These relentless demands also lead to demands for luxury short holidays out of touch with the environment (no camping when you want a luxury beachfront) and thuis a further removal from the world you are destroying.
See this article in The Nation for example http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071210/howl.
This has gone all over the place, but these are the issues that need to be linked to ensure humans can live well beyond 2030, and facing up to this can be the basis of a crystal clear agenda, just as R@W was a crystal clear campaign
Neale
Thanks Neale for the excellent links.
You are dead right - one thing Steve Biddulph nailed in his piece I mentioned earlier this week was that environmental issues will come front and centre whether we want them to or not.
This will be a massive challenge to the growth and consume model driving global capital, as well as to how we, as working people, respond.
By squeezing incomes (and lifestyles) and making environments uninhabitable in the West, international finance is destroying its very raison detre.
The sort of Hobbessean nightmare that stems from this reality is not going to be tempered if society turns to a Malthusian survival of the fittest mentality - that will just make things worse.
Remember, we are going to have to live through all this.
Life is already proving to be nasty, brutish and short.
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