Hello fellow punters, long time no see for many of you :) A friend passed this video clip and link to me to watch. It was surprisingly refreshing in that some home truths were laid bare for all to see. I wonder if this nation (Australia) will ever go through a much needed and healthy reflection on our national character. This national character is often evoked by politicians vying for re-election or by sports commentators. Are we who we say we are? Perhaps we do it better than the USA, perhaps we don't? Yes by all means have some national pride, but should we also have a realistic perspective on how we can improve. Here it is

The most honest three and a half minutes of television, EVER...

http://safeshare.tv/w/UAGOcLSuLX

Enjoy!

P.S I love the bit about liberals!

Just another piece of deeply cynical tele-fiction.

A bit of Hollywood dross, put together by a bunch of double-decaf-soy-latte-sipping scriptwriters over a very long lunch. It rang false at pretty much every level, from the faux-angry interruptions to the faux-naif audience reactions.

I deeply distrust messaging that is formulated in this fashion, having all the subtlety of car-wreck, and with ulterior motives that are so far from being ulterior, they are practically neon-lit.

This isn't even thought-provoking. It is a cling-wrapped, predigested, over-engineered substitute for thinking.

That isn't to suggest that it didn't touch upon some serious issues - it did. But in a way, that makes it even more culpable, allowing prime-time television to pass itself off as "honest", when in fact every sentence was crafted not for honesty, but for ratings.

Which, it would appear, it has achieved. Brilliantly.

anyone that can't see that adopting the Christian Judea ethic made the West great is either naive or blind. We have slidden drastically since abandonding it especially amont our indigeneous people,

@ Pericles,

You obviously enjoy writing criticism, but to what end?

Rainier old fruit, I think America’s perception of itself was and probably still is whatever comes out of Hollywood and the media, simple as that. The deceit the intrigues the guys in the black hats have always been there, as have the moms apple pie and little Joey’s baseball team.

The centralization of economic control and the centralization of governmental power begets victims. The whole first world is a victim of planned social deterioration. Divide and conquer…the tools they use….rich/ poor, been here for 6 generations/ been here for one, don’t follow a religion/follow it like an automaton…all propagated to divide us and kill nationalism.

Runner>> anyone that can't see that adopting the Christian Judea ethic made the West great is either naive or blind. We have slidden drastically since abandonding it especially amont our indigeneous people,<<

Runner old bean, I agree, without religion the crown or government can only ask you to give up your life for them…politicians or monarchy.

I still chuckle at the hide of Stalin…he sent ALL the priests to Siberia during the 1920’s and early 1930’s. Then shipped back what was left of them when Germany invaded to bind the people to fight for god as well as mother Russia.

Australia will be a religious state again in the near future….but it won’t be christianity.