mhaze,

Your replies to Canum Malum are -
absolutely brilliant! Well done!
Kudos!

Dear mhaze,

Rubbish.

Livelihood instead of lives would have been far more accurate, in fact you used the term earlier in the post. But you went with the emotive to make your point and I called it out. You just can't help yourself.

mhaze- Thanks for your reply. Kudos. I'm not sure that I agree with your thesis- I'm sure that you will prepare to defend your position- it's indeed great that I can compete with such a worthy opponent- perhaps you won't see things the same way. I'll try to get back to you soon. The devil is often in the detail. The conflict between Traditionalist and Industrialist thought is in some ways encapsulated in movies such as "Titanic" and "The Sound Of Music"- old verses new money- the holding of land verses holding of technology. Of course both are important but in what proportions. Sun Tzu says that directing an army is like directing a river into a canyon- it's not a precise, moderate, or proportionate act- in some ways the societal forces we are discussing are powerful and unpredictable forces of nature- at least Freud thought so- even though he could have been considered somewhat of an outsider. Anyway I'll try to get back to you soon. Take care.

Hi Steele,

Our resident "intellectual" has managed to link mhaze nonsense, sorry thesis, to the Sound of Music, Sun Tzu and Freud, he left out Aristotle!

Kudos Steele, in fact make that a DOUBLE KUDOS, one from Aristotle as well.

Famous Chinese philosopher Confusion said; Man who burn toast have lousy breakfast.

Foxy wrote: "Your replies to Canum Malum are -absolutely brilliant! Well done!"

Thanks Foxy, that means a lot. I mean it.







Canem wrote: "Anyway I'll try to get back to you soon."

I'll wait.






SR wrote: "Rubbish".

SR, if you seriously think that I was suggesting the lockdown was killing people then your comprehension skills are worse than I thought. Which actually explains a lot.






Paul, in his valiant efforts to raise the tenor of debate on the site writes: "mhaze nonsense, sorry thesis"

I can't wait to see Paul's careful analysis and explanation as to why he thinks what I wrote was nonsense.
Oh wait, we are talking about Paul, whose main contribution to the debate is to throw inane, moronic stink bombs and then scurry away like a naughty schoolboy, hiding behind his "I never explain" mantra. By which he means he never CAN explain.

Thanks mhaze. I’m sure my answers aren’t complete.

Comment 1-

Canem,

There's a fair bit to unpack here. So, let's start with some delimiters. I think there are three separate issues which you've conflated - tourism/foreign students, globalism and the globalist project.

Answer 1-

How do you separate global tourism/ international students from Globalism? Not saying it isn’t possible- in a sense- with respect I just don’t see how you’ve delineated it.

Comment 2-

Tourism and foreign students are an export source for Australia in the sense that's its a way for us to earn money to pay for the things we import. You seem to think that tourism takes something from us. But what? I can't imagine. A Chinese tourist watching the sunrise over Ayers Rock hasn't taken anything. It’s still there for any local to experience tomorrow of a century hence.

Answer 2- My main concern here is that Australia’s come to rely on this cyclical source of income where perhaps we could be using this resource on other types of productivity. Ayn Rand also says that you should only do business with those that have a similar philosophy.

Comment 3-

Equally education. Foreign students aren't taking education facilities from locals. As we've seen, sans the foreigners, locals don't get their places. Those places just cease to exist. Indeed, it’s clear that universities etc are able to offer more local places using the profits derived from the foreigners.

Answer 3-

Foreign students often don’t bring money into Australia they work in Australia to pay for the tuition- this distorts the employment market in certain sectors- for example low skilled work that local students compete for. There is supposed to be a twenty hour limit per weeks but this seems to be routinely bypassed by the cash economy- not that I’m against the cash economy- but foreign students exploit it. Often immigrant business owners are anecdotally the worst exploiters of this loophole- eg. someone was offered a dollar an hour. But the politicians and the bureaucracy turn a blind eye to it because it suits their agenda.