Pericles - true, I probably am hoping for too much..

Curmudgeon I made the point earlier but I think the author is mocking those who try and portray Austalia in such negative terms.

Possibly a little to subtle (sounds too much like the real thing) but one of his other articles http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4897 suggests that he is an academic who's addressing the problem with simplistic attacks om the west.

See my post at http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=13030#224875 for an extract from the article which I think demonstrates the point well enough.

R0bert

Robert I agree, I think the author has his tongue firmly in his check (at least I hope so), though it took me a while to be sure (references to bogans and the virtuous elites escaping the apocalypse at UN conferences give it away I think)

A correction to my earlier post, should have read

"suggests that he is an academic who's addressing the problem of simplistic attacks on the west."

Rhian the tough bit is that sometimes what looks like parody is not. I'm thinking of one of the resident religious fundies who reads like someone mocking the worst extremes of christianity but who appears to be serious.

R0bert

""Racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, climate change denial, Islamophobia, genocide, problem gamblers, economic rationalism, political incorrectness, capitalism, hate speech, hate media, destruction of old-growth forests, inadequate support for the arts, too much money for independent schools, Qantas, bogans..."

In other words: 'Round up the usual suspects...'

....and you wonder why No one trusts anything:)

Humans:).......do you see what I see:)...probably not....

Oh dear.

CACTUS

I think you should remember the old adage "There is many a true word spoken in jest".

By the way OUG, what makes you think that God is any more real than Santa?

David