Wednesday, July 19, 2017

In which the pond brings together coal and western civilisation, thanks to nattering "Ned" and Tess of the Catholic Boys' Daily ...




As noted earlier in the day, there's simply too much reptile magic on parade this day for the pond to deal with ... so choices had to be made, and in the end the pond decided to couple together talk of coal and talk of a vast conspiracy to undermine western civilisation by a bloody South American. It meant dropping the Devine and the bromancer and the mutton Dutton, but that's life, or fascism, or racism, or whatever ...

There's nothing like western Xian civilisation to get the pond going, and nobody like nattering "Ned" to inspire the punters ...

In fact nattering "Ned" is so beloved at the pond that fierce legal arguments have erupted over the ownership of "editor-at-length", though the pond tends to treat everything as public domain ...

Is it possible to patent an observation that the sun shines, the moon glows with reflected light, and "Ned" blathers at such tedious length that even prattling Polonius abandons the field for a snooze?

That said, the pond is always attentive to "Ned", who has been deeply concerned of late about the future of dinkum Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, and deeply sceptical of all this climate nonsense, and yet of late has become dimly aware that perhaps there's something of a problem, and perhaps it needs some attention ...


Uh huh. As in the matter of mutton Dutton being appointed to a super ministry which in due course will prove itself a spectacular failure - in much the same way as having the military roaming the streets will produce the kind of kickback the invasion of the NT evoked - Malware is doing for coal exactly what he did for the NBN.

Talking up the copper-driven future, celebrating coal as a potent solution to what ails the planet, appeasing reactionary thought in the hope that somehow he's heading into the future, when in reality he's constantly being swept back by the tide ...

It's a familiar syndrome ...

And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Malware's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of his Point Piper dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the commonwealth rolled on under the night. 
Malware believed in the green light of copper and coal, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning —— 
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. (the proper version in full here).

That's how nattering "Ned" can quote him talking about coal as a part of a modern, low emission energy future ... because clean coal ... because no need for fibre when there's copper ...



And there it is in a nutshell. To save the county from socialism, Malware should become a socialist and ordain a government-funded coal-fired power station ... and perhaps, to save the economy, we should also revert to five year plans ...

Now there's no point shaking nattering "Ned" hard and asking the senile old goat to think about what he's saying ...

There's no point in pointing out that if private investors think a new coal-fired power station is a dog of an investment - given scientific realities and future energy trends - what on earth is the point of doing a comrade Bill and hitting up taxpayers, so that Malware can appease luddites of the onion-munching kind ...

But Malware and the reptiles have form in this sort of bizarre logic, and so, to appease the onion muncher, Malware gave the land copper and a truly fucked hybrid system which will take decades of expensive fixes (loaded on to taxpayers) to unravel ... in much the same way as the national energy market has been implemented in a half-arsed way ... and now, sheesh, nattering "Ned" is talking of taking us back to the future of government coal ...

Why cling to coal if market forces are against it and it requires a socialist intervention? Well that's why the ineffable "Ned" is always an interminable crowd pleaser ...



And so with a glimmering of light in nattering "Ned" - perhaps coal isn't quite the future, perhaps there's something in all this scientific mumbo-jumbo, perhaps we should embrace socialism and start building coal-fired stations because it's never too late to start the next five year plan  - it's time to turn to a wider crisis in civilisation ...



Now the pond probably should have made this a separate posting, but those exhausted by prolix nattering "Ned" can drop off, and leave this for the western civilisation in crisis experts to muse about ...

There's something sublimely comical about the Catholic Boys' Daily quoting an atheist about the Pope aspiring to destroy Christianity, along with more than a none too subtle disdain for bloody useless South Americans ...

An atheist? Well when the pond Greg Hunted Marcello Pera, that's what it said about him, for those brave enough to step over the southern walri and land here ...

However Pera is of that peculiar Italian stripe which sees atheists fellow travel with Catholics and Christians, except when it comes to tedious matters of Christianity, such as what to do with some tedious refugee that turns up with expectant wife in some bloody stable, and then builds a mythology out of it, with stars and wise men and camels and myrrh and the whole bloody refugee deal and Samaritan kindness to strangers and all the rest of the silly Xian nonsense ...

And in this context, the hard-core conservative Catholic Boys' Daily - can we have an Opus, can we have a Dei? - are happy to consort with an atheist having a go at the Pope ...


It's a cunning ploy of course, one designed to generate the pond's sympathy for a Pope forced to deal with the conservative forces within the Vatican who won't settle for anything less than a return to the medieval church ...

Oh wait, that's a bit too late, better the church of c.300-400 AD ...though the pond would settle for a trip back to the 1930s when western civilisation was at its finest ...




Ah, good old Xian civilisation at its finest, though the pond could have mentioned instead one of its favourite movies, an example of western civilisation at its finest in South America ...





Well at least the Wrath of Werner ...

Never mind, it all helps set the mood for the second burst of Tess of the Catholic Boys' Daily channelling Pera ...


The sting in the tail is that mournful note about the departure of Muller, a man who had kept alive the proud Catholic tradition of not giving a flying fuck about its victims ...

And that's enough of a western civilisation midweek irony overdose, leaving just enough room for TT, still struggling to keep up with yet another of the finest flowerings of western civilisation, with more TT here ...


6 comments:

  1. You gotta roll around the floor in laughter when this dim-witted twit complains that the francis the talking mule (aka the pope, or is that the poop) has politicized the "catholic" church.
    Never mind that the "catholic" church is first and foremost a political entity, and the worlds first transnational business corporation - FULL STOP. As a business corporation its principal motives are to protect its assets and to increase its market share in the "religion" business.
    As a political entity it has at its root a drive to obtain totalitarian control over all of humankind - such a drive/motive is part of its mission statement. Never mind too that it is not in any sense a or the "universal" church.

    And who has really destroyed the "authority" of the church?
    According to Matthew Fox in his book it was the benighted Ratzinger and the completely obnoxious poop JPII, both of whom facilitated the rise to control of the church by opus dei and similar right-wing "traditionalist" outfits. See The Popes War Why Ratzingers Secret Crusade Has Imperilled the Church.
    Also check out the latest essay on the worse-than-horrible behind the scenes machinations of the benighted denizens who infest the vatican cess-pit on The Open Tabernacle website.
    The sooner that the bogus "authority" of the "catholic" church and its associated heavy yoke on the hearts bodies and minds of humankind is broken then the better off we will all be.

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    1. "...the worlds first transnational business corporation"

      I think you'll find that was actually the Roman Army under their SPQR trademark, Anony. Though yes, the 'Church of Rome' is by far the most successful and longest surviving.

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  2. Hi Dorothy,

    "When our Lord ascended to heaven after His sufferings in the fourteenth year, when Stephanus had long before been stoned by the Jews and the other disciples had been expelled from Judea, the disciples went into many lands in order to spread the word of God. With these apostles was Maximinus, one of the Lord's seventy - two disciples to whose guardianship St. Peter had commended Mary Magdalene. When the disciples were scattered St. Maximinus, Mary Magdalene, her brother Lazarus, her sister Martha with her servant Martilla and Cedonius (who was born blind but who had been cured by the Lord) and many other Christians were gathered on a ship by the heathens which was then pushed into the ocean so that they would all perish. By God's providence, however, they arrived in Massilia (Marseille). They found no one who wanted to give them hospitality and therefore remained in the vestibule of the heathens' temple."

    The Life of Mary Magdalen, from the Legenda Aurea (13th Century) by Jacopo di Voragine.

    The Magdalene evidently then converted the whole of Provence to Christianity. Not bad for a Fugee.

    DiddyWrote

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    1. Nearly as good as Patrick's "conversion" of the Irish (and thence the later "conversion" of the British Isles).

      They really could doodle on in no uncertain terms, couldn't they. Almost as good as Arthur, Guinevere and the mighty cuckolding Lancelot.

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  3. I am betting the accommodation was better than Manus Island - then again the heathens might have been more hospitable than the christian folk in Australia

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  4. "Product discrimination" old Neddles spouts. "discrimination" ?

    I think Neddles really means product differentiation. He really is a decrepit old doodlebug, isn't he.
    http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-the-hell-is-a-doodlebug

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