Dorian Gay wins it for me. As for Janet’s crushes, don’t forget her ‘private and secret’ emoji-laden texts with the Queensland jurist, Walter Sofronoff, KC, who leaked her an advance copy of his entire report into the ACT criminal justice system arising from the Bruce Lehrmann debacle, as you do.
Thank you, Guy. I'd been missing your dialectics, even the "cod" version.
But unlike you, I don't think the Austral-Asia story is ridiculous. If you want a town centre beyond the Dan Murphy's car park, it's worth trying to graft the culture of our region's migrants, particularly those of Chinese descent from south-east Asia (Penny Wong, etc.). That doesn't mean making offerings to the ancestors on the mantelpiece, but it does prompt the question of inter-generational stories. Tai Chi centres in Canada and Australia are populated with white settlers who fill the cultural void with Confucian values.
While it may go against the grain of deeply embedded sinophobia, reconciliation with the dragon (sorry about St George) at least does give Australia a unique role to play as "the most Asia-literate country in the collective West". Rather than critique "progressive patriotism", it's up to the intellectual class to progress this even further.
The lurch towards nonoculture from monoculture is something that has concerned me for 40+ years. Australia is an ideal place for such a social experiment - given the population is as dumb and zoned out on bullshit as they are ….. oh well.
On The International Socialists - they used to annoy me back in the day when a handful would hijack peaceful demonstrations and convert them into shitshows - I guess at least they were kinda entertaining.
Sun Ra, in Melbourne at least there is still one socialist group - gods know how one keeps track of them all - which turns up to all demos and pushes its own disruptive agenda. Known as the "salties". Plenty of eye-rolling whenever they're mentioned!
So glad to find you still writing. I'd love to pitch in the odd $100 but refuse to be involved with subs. (burned too often, esp by Crikey - snap! - and despise PayBastaard).
I've never voted liberal in my life, and I live in NSW, but Moira Deeming stood up for women's rights and against the radical medication and surgery of minors; a very common sense standpoint by any measure if you read what she did and said. She was vilified, called a nazi, by her own party, which only shows how deep the globohomo uniparty consensus is. No mainstream media outlet will touch it and you lost your job at Crikey over it so why so cowardly now? We don't have a JK Rowling so we need a lot of Guy Rundles to tell the truth. I'm proud of you for telling Patricia Karvelas off. She is a nasty piece of work who has a platform on the public purse that actively harms individuals, creates dysfunction in families and society and people like her must be challenged. Keep it up!
I thought it was a troll at first. Remember when he didn't support Marrickville council on the Divestment thingo ... anyway, I thought, wow, maybe he's going to do the thing he does and turn it on the supporters, but slightly. He's such a great troll. When he said progressive patriotism I don't know why but I thought - Ha, yes, he's going to go there; and I thought, wryly, cynically, of this :
Dorian Gay wins it for me. As for Janet’s crushes, don’t forget her ‘private and secret’ emoji-laden texts with the Queensland jurist, Walter Sofronoff, KC, who leaked her an advance copy of his entire report into the ACT criminal justice system arising from the Bruce Lehrmann debacle, as you do.
Thank you, Guy. I'd been missing your dialectics, even the "cod" version.
But unlike you, I don't think the Austral-Asia story is ridiculous. If you want a town centre beyond the Dan Murphy's car park, it's worth trying to graft the culture of our region's migrants, particularly those of Chinese descent from south-east Asia (Penny Wong, etc.). That doesn't mean making offerings to the ancestors on the mantelpiece, but it does prompt the question of inter-generational stories. Tai Chi centres in Canada and Australia are populated with white settlers who fill the cultural void with Confucian values.
While it may go against the grain of deeply embedded sinophobia, reconciliation with the dragon (sorry about St George) at least does give Australia a unique role to play as "the most Asia-literate country in the collective West". Rather than critique "progressive patriotism", it's up to the intellectual class to progress this even further.
A drive-by on Nick Bryant would be welcome
Progressive Patriotism - surely the last refuge of the progressive scoundrel.
Guy - really enjoyed your road pieces and the rest of the election coverage.
Tim Soutphomassame lives on! Not a Covid victim after all (in the moral, intellectual, reputational sense, of course)
The lurch towards nonoculture from monoculture is something that has concerned me for 40+ years. Australia is an ideal place for such a social experiment - given the population is as dumb and zoned out on bullshit as they are ….. oh well.
On The International Socialists - they used to annoy me back in the day when a handful would hijack peaceful demonstrations and convert them into shitshows - I guess at least they were kinda entertaining.
Sun Ra, in Melbourne at least there is still one socialist group - gods know how one keeps track of them all - which turns up to all demos and pushes its own disruptive agenda. Known as the "salties". Plenty of eye-rolling whenever they're mentioned!
Janet Planet the 2024 film is worth watching. Best family drama of the year. Nice obscure reference.
So glad to find you still writing. I'd love to pitch in the odd $100 but refuse to be involved with subs. (burned too often, esp by Crikey - snap! - and despise PayBastaard).
Hell, I'd rather write a cheque.
I've never voted liberal in my life, and I live in NSW, but Moira Deeming stood up for women's rights and against the radical medication and surgery of minors; a very common sense standpoint by any measure if you read what she did and said. She was vilified, called a nazi, by her own party, which only shows how deep the globohomo uniparty consensus is. No mainstream media outlet will touch it and you lost your job at Crikey over it so why so cowardly now? We don't have a JK Rowling so we need a lot of Guy Rundles to tell the truth. I'm proud of you for telling Patricia Karvelas off. She is a nasty piece of work who has a platform on the public purse that actively harms individuals, creates dysfunction in families and society and people like her must be challenged. Keep it up!
I thought it was a troll at first. Remember when he didn't support Marrickville council on the Divestment thingo ... anyway, I thought, wow, maybe he's going to do the thing he does and turn it on the supporters, but slightly. He's such a great troll. When he said progressive patriotism I don't know why but I thought - Ha, yes, he's going to go there; and I thought, wryly, cynically, of this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfHU_Nbe1rQ
No Conversation paste-ins?!
Robbed.
'News Corpse', 💀😀 .