Post No. 3,324 - from this week’s coming news post: democracy in Australia

This is from this week’s coming news post: 

an encouraging assessment with several cautionary notes:  

The first of what is planned to be an annual series of assessments of democracy in Australia (the McKinnon index) has indicated democracy is in a reasonable situation (key findings here, detailed findings [66 pages] here), although I consider satisfaction with service delivery should be higher (i.e., service delivery needs to improve), around one quarter of Australians “could be considered disengaged from the democratic process”, and one-in-five younger Australians cannot be friends with those of opposing political views (which I consider could be a measure of the reaction to the presence of far right extremism [including fascism and n__-n_oz_sm], and thus is not necessarily a bad thing), but 8.5% of young men and 2.4% of Australians overall support political violence, which is of concern, and is related to increased reliance on online sources of news and lower understanding of how democracy works, leading to a recommendation for better education as one of many recommendations;      

and of concern: 

growing concerns over the “‘sickening’ double standard” of a recent “‘unfathomable’” approval by NSW police of a n__-n_oz_ rally - and some inappropriate reactions and death and r_pe threats against female MPs;          

a warning that “AI could become “dangerous and sinister” considering some who finance it hold views that are “extremely autocratic””;         

an Australian survey of a representative sample of 2,000 people found “40% of Australian women without kids hesitant to have children because of climate change” (which is not surprising), but “a third of Coalition voters believed the climate would not change at all” - which, in my opinion, is why those parties are fading out of existence (and is of concern to some of the them - the amathia of those parties can be illustrated, IMO, by comparing their petulant stance to what it would be if we were discussing some new business technique that would increase reduce the risk of losses: the coalition is being petulant about the up-front cost of something that is known to be of preventative benefit, and choosing at the same to be followers in the market, rather than leaders);           

 

I am considering using this information to write an activism email to my local MPs with content along the lines of the following: 

• a new survey, to be performed annually, shows Australia’s democracy is in a reasonable position, albeit with some concerns: 
•  ¼ of Australians are disengaged, and service delivery needs to be better (particularly in rural areas [and I would acknowledge my home state's better than average efforts on that aspect, with the survey results being national and thus not showing that]); 
• credibility and authenticity are going to be vital in terms of improving trust, which will be an important part of rebuilding engagement, and better action on the climate crisis will have to be a leading part of that; 
• there is a low but concerning number of young men who consider political violence acceptable;  

• the death and r_pe threats against female MPs following a n__-n_oz_ rally in NSW which was, staggeringly, approved by NSW police are also of concern (as was the NSW police approval). 
  Earlier attacks against TGDNB and LGBTQIASB+ people generally were, as I have warned, the “canary in the mine” indicator of what was coming, with the latest possibly being an indicator of those concerns spreading. 
  Our (Australian) intelligence agencies have been warning of this threat for some years now. 
• The demise of the neoliberal parties will provide additional potential recruits to far rights movements, and the percentage of young men found by the survey are also potential recruits. 
• This problem cannot be ignored - those people are fanatical. 
  Action must be taken, beginning with acknowledge that the far right (fascist) threat is NOT a political difference - it is worse. 
  The 20% of young people who cannot be friends with people of differing political views are likely thinking of fascists, who have been rolled in to "political difference" by inadequacies in the otherwise sound survey. I consider those young people are right. 
• I respectfully urge you to take heed of these matters, and consult with experts (NOT only police) on ways to stop the spread of fascism in Australia, and then regain the trust of the disaffected by DELIVERING on those actions. 

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider: 

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

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Post No. 3,323 - A rant: the problem of incompetence at being human (~1,020 words; ~ 7 minutes)

 Photo by Luca Micheli on Unsplash  
(A shooting star is passing across the Milky Way above an isolated stand of trees on low, gently sloping fields of grass) 

 

 

This post started as one small topic, which grew into a few small points that I was struggling to tie into something worth posting - or at least cohesive, when I realised what I have been struggling to elucidate for quite some time (struggling partly because I generally feel I should be publishing something positive) - and that realisation was summarised in a SubStack note as follows (I've edited it to fix some word errors):

I thought I would write about: 

• how the foot soldiers of neoliberalism - those incompetent, scammed dupes in workplaces who committed the evil known as neoliberalism - were largely FOMO - amathiac, emotionally inept and lacking as human beings, but also so terrified of seeming to be stupid or missing out that they were like the person I knew who, when the character Dawn was introduced to the TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", claimed she remembered her from previous episodes (which was impossible). 
  

Today’s foot soldiers of evil are vicious, hateful, and also incompetent at being human.

I am, however, too unwell to write particularly well - and I actually consider the point largely self evident anyway, so I will leave this at that for now, but I will also include the original brief topics below. 

Forced busyness etc 

One of the major problems of life in industrialised and feudal and patriarchal societies is the endemic pressure to justify our existence by being busy. That seems, to many in the western world, to have come down the patriarchy-perverted version of Christianity that I refer to as neochristianity - and which others refer to more specifically as Protestantism, or, if they're being more accurate, Calvinism. 

The truth, whatever you call it, is that it is an attack on being human, and on all people having an adequate quality of life - and largely because some people want to be what they consider "superior" to others (have more social status points, or "higher" social status, if you prefer that wording). 

I came to writing this via a comment in a blog post of mine a little while ago, which was: 

However, I’m still not getting out as much as I would like: the various crises in the world (or more specifically, my meditation and other work on those crises) and the need to earn an income are largely responsible for that, but the lack of energy, excess of pain, and a couple of other factors don’t help either.

And that’s the second point: “life” can seem to conspire to force us to be busy … but I think the neoliberal capitalist industrialised society I live in may be more likely to blame … 

I have watched myself and those around me on this aspect for most of my life (all of my adult life, certainly), and I am firmly of the opinion, based on my observations, that we have been duped by ultra-rich neoliberals and their sock puppets, and have been socially conditioned by millennia of patriarchy and its favourite tools (especially mainstream religion), into considering we "should" be busy - even in trivial, inefficient, wasteful ways - or otherwise we're "evil". 

There are valid times and needs for being busy, including times when genuine life demands can coincide or be demanding, but the simple TRUTH is that those are rarely present when people start an activity for the sake of busyness ... 

And most of the "modern" demands are artificial, and of arguable (i.e., no) merit. 

One of the aspects of modern life that is extremely problematic is the fear of being "different" - which can lead not only to working frantically at suppressing any difference in oneself, but also to imposing that enforced conformity on others, something also known as ... bigotry. 

This is particularly a problem around gender roles, withotoxicoalphaopersonalityoTERFs (who are neither radical nor feminist) acting out of a desire to protect the privileged social status of being either "looked after" in the "trad wife" sense or using attractiveness as a weapon. 

The truth is that all genders should support themselves, share earning income and housework equally, take active parts in child rearing, and that TERFs should be called out by politicians (and some do) just as other forms of bigotry should also. 

And all people should refuse to go along with performative cr_p. Yes, that means people will have to work out how to behave and what to do for themselves in social situations, but that will ultimately result in a better (more authentic / genuine) world. 

One of the things that may help to eradicate is misogyny in politics - which, contrary to the inaccurate simplification that that - and bad decisions - are made  largely by toxicoalphaopersonalityowhiteocishetomen, is also found in toxicoalphaopersonalityowhiteocishetowomen who got to their positions by emulatingotoxicoalphaopersonalityowhiteocishetomen - women such as theoutterlyovileoandoeviloMaggieoThatcher. 

All of this will also lead to us addressing the unmanaged unconscious "bias" (UUB) that does so much damage - especially when it results in companies hiring people they feel comfortable with because they share bigotries/hates/biases/UUB and then complaining that their efforts to improve DEI aren't working and they still have misogyny (or misandry in female-dominated situations), racism, etc 

Some football clubs have a "no ____heads" rule (yes, I am annoyed enough to repeat [albeit edited] crudities - and deliberately so, for the impact [shock]); some companies won't get substantially better until they are prepared to forego the skills of the latestoslickowhiteocishetocandidate and hire someone who can do the role - meeting the genuine requirements - but doesn't have the extra and useless "skills" ... and to do that, our (I am writing about my nation - Australia) elected politicians need to start doing things like ban all MPs with residential investment properties from housing debates, ban all who have shares from debates on corporate accountability / restoring the balance of power between corporations and people, and make laws that allow matters other than money to be included in decision making. 

If you appreciated this post, please share it. I am now on SubStack, Patreon, 
and you can support me at PayPal (or PayPal Repeating Support Options) or Ko-Fi 
Any and all support will be greatly appreciated, and will aid me in continuing this work 

 

Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

#PsychicABetterWorld   and  

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here, and Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear  

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2025     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-ShareAlike basis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/