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By Bruce Haigh, published 31/8/2016Belief in the substance of ethics and morality is an inconvenience, to the promotion and advancement of self, a catechism of the Right.
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Posted by Jardine K. Jardine, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 10:18:48 AM
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How much more space is this anti Australian twit going to be given to say exactly the same thing as was rejected the last time he was published?
Posted by Hasbeen, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 10:44:12 AM
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The key is in the Treasurer's pocket. But he won't unlock the door because he's too busy trying to bolt it shut.
________________________________________________________________________________ Jardine, Did you read the same article as I did? I ask because what I read contained nothing that even remotely resembled worship of the state; rather it was a lament for what had gone wrong with the state, and an appeal to fix it. I see it as a worthy aim, even though there are parts of the article that I disagree with. Posted by Aidan, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 11:17:36 AM
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Like most of Bruce's dubious diatribes, a small element of truth is served with a very generous heping helping of overreach topped uninvitingly with liberal layers of risible rubbish?
Alan B. Posted by Alan B., Wednesday, 31 August 2016 11:41:14 AM
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So it's all the fault of the Tories , this greed and hunger for power ?
Would Bruce please tell me where the ( he hopes ) future PM ,Sam Dastyari, fits into his Article ? Posted by Aspley, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 12:13:25 PM
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Thanks Brucy
For your right-out-of-a-Labor-lubber sermon. I'm still searching for an actual article. "Article" aside. I had an epiphany. Your mugshot so looks like Sonny Hammond (out of Skippy) its scary... http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uh8WY_nFSWk/VUny9EOsr-I/AAAAAAAAADk/__Y1w1tNQO0/s1600/url.jpg Posted by plantagenet, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 12:58:16 PM
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Seems like a reasonable enough assessment of the situation to me.
Speaking of greed on a massive world wide scale, and how it has effectively undermined any sense of democratic accountability and any reasonable sense of fairness (and even hope for the usual ordinary every person struggling to make ends meet who now quite rightly vote for Donald Trump and Pauline Hanson's party) why not read this truth-telling essay: http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/hidden-cost Posted by Daffy Duck, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 1:01:42 PM
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I haven't read anthing written by the the Pilger-like Bruce Haigh for a long time. I read the comments, and all posters, except for one who could pass for Bruce's twin brother when it comes to lack of judgement, said pretty much what I would have said.
I did not read this piece either, but I was highly amused to see this man mention 'morality' and 'ethics' as part of his heading.! Posted by ttbn, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 2:26:37 PM
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Oops. He has two admirers if you take seriously someone calling himself "Daffy Duck".
Posted by ttbn, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 2:29:41 PM
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He might be anti Australian Has been but sure happy to suck on a life long Govt pension from the ones he despises.
Posted by runner, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 2:31:58 PM
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Like ttbn, I stopped reading anything by Bruce Haigh a long time ago. No need. Everything he writes is the same pap and crap variation on a theme. Says a lot about his ideological cant, though.
Posted by cato, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 2:58:53 PM
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Whinge whinge whinge.
Socialism is a failed concept, which is why no one is pushing it. Posted by Shadow Minister, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 3:48:13 PM
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Socialism is no more a failed concept than capitalism is. Both are pretty nebulous concepts that can incorporate (and some would claim are defined by) highly desirable and highly undesirable features.
Posted by Aidan, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 6:30:45 PM
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I propose that the sheer scale and access to today's internet and its products of social media will change the world unlike any previous socio/political or economic movement since the dawn of human civilization. Concept of what defines leadership will radically change... but to what?
Keep in mind that it's still early days for all this relatively new technology and only about half the world's population can currently access this tech today. What changes are in store when most if not all of the world's populations are 'connected'? Who knows what new ideas about how to arrange and manage humanity across the globe will ascend from this phenomenon? The biggest threat to all of these interconnections are unauthorised 3rd parties collecting data about content and communications between any given entity across the net. Blame the current TCP/IP protocols largely for this, security was an after thought when the internet was launched globally. And what of the internet when quantum computing becomes more practical and widespread? will the hackers still find a way to snoop on whoever they choose? Posted by Rojama, Thursday, 1 September 2016 1:31:00 PM
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Aidan
Wrong. You are only displaying your confused failure to understand what you're talking about, which is why you flounder in the creationist superstition of the state as a super-economising super-being. Rojama Indeed. When we consider the revolutionary effects of the printing press in enabling the little guy to challenge the institutional gate-keepers of knowledge, and the fact that these effects took hundreds of years to play out, we literally cannot imagine how the effects of the internet will play out. But I predict that it will revolutionise society in a ground-up sort of way, enabling all sorts of person-to-person interactions that ignore, challenge, de-legitimise and overturning the pretended legitimacy of today's institutional gate-keepers, including banks and governments, with the socialists and morons desperately trying to shore up the power of the corrupt and violent vested interest, as usual. Talk of "leadership" that does not distinguish leadership based on consent, from that based on the corrupt protection racket of the state, is worse than useless Posted by Jardine K. Jardine, Saturday, 3 September 2016 1:55:22 AM
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Jardine,
Wrong. You are only displaying your confused failure to understand what you're talking about, which is why you constantly make the most ridiculous allegations. For the record, I don't flounder in any creationist superstition, and nor do I regard the state as a "super-economising super-being". But I do recognise the powerful position it's in, and I think that power should be harnessed to benefit the people. Posted by Aidan, Saturday, 3 September 2016 11:16:39 AM
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Skimming through Bruce Haigh's article and refuting it.
If the Libs are handing out taxpayer dollars to buy votes, then they are emulating the Labor Party who are the past masters of using taxpayer cash to bribe voters. If you are advocating open borders, then have a look at where that got Europe. Most Australians would consider you insane for wanting to emulate self evident catastrophic failure, just so you can preen yourself as morally superior. Thank you for mentioning it because it destroys your credibility with the majority of Australians, right from the start. Muslims, aborigines, Iranians, Chinese, and other ethnic and religious groups can have lobbyists and spokespersons looking after their interests. But when white Australians do the same thing and vote for Pauline Hanson, it is racism. You need to explain this clear double standard, Bruce. Bruce Haigh wants more money for the CSIRO and the artz. Then Bruce, get your head around the fact you can only import into this country people who can contribute to the Commonwealth, and not anybody who turns up on our shore from some hideously overpopulated third world craphole who is asking directions to Centrelink. Auburn, largest number of long term unemployed. Afghan "refugees", 90% unemployment rate. 50% of Muslims unemployed and you want more of them? There must be lead in the water around your farm in Mudgee. Your negative stereotype of Christians as "narcissists" could be considered "offensive, insulting, humiliating, and intimidating" under 18C, which I am sure you support. The primary instrument driving climate change is the temperature of the sun, and no amount of taxpayer dollars or wind farms is going to change that. The biggest "strain" on democracy is multiculturalism, which relies for it's propagation upon restrictions to our sacred tradition of freedom of speech. How about homosexual "marriage"? The forces of darkness want to stop the Australians people from giving their plebiscite views on this because democracy is an impediment to the type of socialist Sodom and Gomorrah Australia that they wish for. Where do you stand on that? Posted by LEGO, Sunday, 4 September 2016 6:00:24 PM
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Your blind irrational worship of the State, your superstitious belief that it is some kind of fructifying superbeing, has no basis in reality or reason, and invalidates everything you say about ethics.