I wish I knew how to shut them up. One of them is up in a tree outside my window, grunting like a …. well, grunting like a koala on bloody heat. Or is it the male that gets all noisy? I forget. Either it’s a horny male trying to get some action, or it’s a lusty she-bear trying to entice the horny male over to her tree. In either case I think I am in for a restless night. The racket they make is quite difficult to sleep through.
I saw a show on TV the other night that described how the Australian koala population was riddled with sexually transmitted diseases like chlamydiae, and the like, so maybe they are just a debauched species. I’m just jealous. 
Some people claim ignorance when it comes to politics. Mostly I think it’s self chosen. They don’t want to know. It’s all too difficult. Or is it that they don’t know themselevs and what they believe in. After all, everyone has political beliefs. It’s impossible not to. Politics is how you feel about social justice, freedom of the press, national security, economic structures. Sure we mightn’t all have a really deep understanding of these complicated subjects, but we will have an idea where we stand on many of the issues if we just took our time to think about it.
Take Australia right now. A federal election is due to be called at any minute. We have had a conservative government in power for over a decade. We are experiencing an economic book, based on the resources sector, and unemployment is at an all time low. Sounds good doesn’t it. But it’s all spin as far as I’m concerned. The unemployment figures are as rubbery as water, and 2 hours a fortnight in a casual position is classed as a job. Any job security we ever had is gone, and now we have individual workplace agreements where the worker has to bargain (with what leverage I don’t know) with the employer directly. A typical AWA is all overtime and loading gone, and 2cents an hour in compensation. Yeah right.
And sure the economy is booming, but where is that money going? To the wealthy investors of the mining companies. They talk about trickle down economics, but I tell you in the real world, the trickle runs out long before it gets to the bottom end. In the real world living costs have increased about twofold while wages have gone up maybe 10%. The dream of home ownership is now firmly that - a dream for anyone but the wealthy. We have the most arrogant government we’ve ever had in power, and it’s time they WENT!
So watch the next election with interest. Kevin Rudd is likely to become the next Prime Minister of Australia, and this is because the majority of Australians can see through the amazing lies the government has been peddling for the last decade. Yes, we have been slow to wake up. But it’s happening.
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I am thinking of writing a book. It would have a pithy title like “A Deconstruction of the world in 29 chapters”. One chapter for each letter of the alphabet. Yeah, yeah, I know the English alphabet has only 26 letters, but the Danish one has 29, so why not use it A would be for Alienation. Which is often how I feel in relation to the world in general. Maybe it’s just a habit I’ve fallen into. I know there are many different types of people in the world, but watching the news, going shopping in the mall, people seem all to focussed on shallow things, on clothes and looks and material possessions. Not that I don’t also focus on those things, but I feel as if this is all many people have in their lives. That they don’t think about and discuss more important things. Like ethics, love, compassion, good communication, forbearance and the like. I don’t get it when people say that they are not interested in politics for example. Sure, it’s a grubby realm to be sure, but politics is about the structure of our life. How can you not be interested in the structure we live our lives in? Maybe thinking I was different all my life has been a real negative, because it has certainly made me less socially adept than I would like. But if I had to quickly name two albums that represented what I felt about this issue, I’d choose Roger Waters’ Amused To Death, and The Cure’s Head on The Door. Go figure…
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