Back playing hide and seek in the Library of Alexandria

The Blog That Never Sleeps is returning from a cogitating hiatus. This blog has been pondering the meaning of the sub-prime lending crisis, the US Presidential primaries, rain, Electricity Privatisation, Kevin Rudd, the Job Network and how and why Liberal Democracy died. That Liberal Democracy is dead is certain. It's just that nobody has told it yet. Those eponymous images of planes flying into the twin-towers will be as much an exclamation mark in history as Archduke Ferdinand getting his face blown off in Sarajevo or William the Bastard taking to the field at Hastings in 1066. Of this we can be certain. But even at those times I doubt most people understood the significance until the dust had fully settled, usually decades, or a generation, after. But Liberal Democracy is as dead as my grandfathers dog, leaving us swimming in a septic tank full of hubris that borrows the words and clichés of the democratic process, and liberalism, but leaves us a reality more akin to soviet Russia, medieval Europe or Pinochet's Chile. Luckily The Blog That Never Sleeps can make sense of all this, and maybe even name this new world order that looks like Hollywood, smells like a dead man and sounds like fingernails down a blackboard. Here's luck!

The Invisible Australians

One of the great vehicles for taking the workforce backwards is, of course, the Job Network - the beast that allowed Kev Rudd's missus, Therese Rein, to snaffle millions and millions off the back of the most marginalised people in this country - the unemployed. Whilst in the short term this blogger faces homelessness and a pretty acute version of poverty, I'll be doing some research on the noble institution that is turning the lives of the most underprivileged in Australia into a living nightmare, and hopefully shine a bit of light on some of the wonderful architects of this Orwellian disaster. Feel free share your anecdotes about this profit-from-misery exercise. I will be writing more as information is compiled.