At the risk of inducing nausea from an overdose of reptile cruel, the crisis in Western Civilisation takes on a pinko pervert tone ...

 

The crisis in Western Civilisation continues apace, and the pond realises that compiling a compendium of reptile raging is a bit like forcing distilled essence of gruel down the throat, but what's the pond to do?

The reptiles are relentless in their force-feeding, though the chance of scoring a decent pâté is remote.

The latest bout began with the news that the young are clueless pinko pervert socialists, and the pond rushed to read the scoop …

The pond felt a deep welling of sympathy for the sweet young things in the photo. Did they realise that they'd be represented as clueless pinko perverts? (Well, that beard …)

Never mind, on with the bad news, thanks to the urbane Urban and her cohort Fergo ...

Um, is it right of the pond to point out that it seems the entire deep state leftist commie swine pinko pervert greenie agenda of Australian academia has entirely failed?

There they are feverishly teaching away about the joys of socialism, greatly alarming the lizards of Oz, and what's the result? The bloody useless young things don't have a clue …

Why they probably don't have much of a clue about the glories of Western Civilisation either … as we're doing body counts, they're probably unaware of Leopold II of Belgium's excellent total in the Congo Free State, though no one seems to be entirely certain, with estimates ranging from 1 to 15 million, and some settling on a modest 10 million …

Of course if we were doing really good body counts, we might look at the glorious first world war, surely an apogee of Western Civilisation and its glorious record of feuding imperialists and colonialists, with a modest total of 18 million deaths and 23 million wounded (Greg Hunt away here).

The silly confused young things seem to think that public roads and public housing and a concern for the environment is something to do with socialism, when everyone knows that's much better left to the likes of Chairman Rupert … just look at how spiffing things are for the poor in the United States …

Never mind, the point of the story was really only to provide a little more publicity for the alarmed Switzer and team at the top of the opinionated reptile digital page …

The Chairman, how handy he is, though his connection to George Orwell's brand of socialism is about as remote as Switzer's connection to reality, given that he turns up regularly on a public broadcaster and thereby seems to be deeply in the embrace of socialists of the cardigan-wearing kind.

Dammit it young 'uns, just remember the golden rule, some forms of socialism are more equal than others.

The pond decided it needed an uplifting cartoon before pressing on …

Oh dear, that's a tad unfortunate, mentioning Jesus and the Bible, as if that bloody useless socialist, with his attitude to the rich, could do anything for Western Civilisation ...

Um, speaking of prisons, the pond feels another cartoon coming on …

Oh dear, this Western Civilisation thingie is a bit tricky, better get on with it ...

Well the pond is pleased to hear Switzer denouncing the onion muncher …

Who could forget his devotion to Santamaria, and who could forget Santamaria's devotion to Franco ...

In the famous Melbourne University debate about the Spanish Civil War, he (Santamaria) declared: "When the bullets of the atheists struck the statue of Christ outside the cathedral in Madrid, for some that was just steel striking brass. But for me, those bullets were piecing the heart of Christ the King." He could engender a thrill in the heart that was part patriotism, part Christian idealism and part "fighting the good fight". (here)

In March 1937 Russel Ward joined colleagues at Melbourne University and witnessed a heated debate on the Spanish ‘civil war’. Putting the case that ‘The Spanish Government is the ruin of Spain’ were three students, amongst whom was Santamaria. “Santa [as he was familiarly known] and [another] both studied law but were clearly more interested in politics and history: Santa struck me then, and still does, as the cleverest and most fanatical person I ever knew. … He preached eloquently and incessantly the virtues of Franco’s falange, of the Spanish rebels and of Franco himself, but he was very far from being obsessed with Spanish affairs. To back up these views he passionately expounded a whole theory of authoritarianism. Fascism in Germany, Italy and everywhere else was the best form of government, because it was the most viable and in the modern world, to which modern man could aspire, and all human history went to prove it. Art, science and learning – he argued – had always flourished most under royal, imperial or dictatorial rule; the more authoritarian the better.” (R. Ward, A radical life – The autobiography of Russel Ward (Melbourne 1988) 88. (here)

And what did the onion muncher say about the man?

I was lucky to know B.A. Santamaria for the last 22 years of his life, to have attended diligently to his writing and speaking over that time and to have been the beneficiary of the occasional private lunch and long phone call. I am honoured to have been asked to help launch these memoirs, as there are many whom he knew better and loved more. Perfectionist that he was, I'm fairly sure that I would have been a disappointment to him. Still, hardly a day passes without recalling his example and its challenge to do more, better.

Indeed, indeed, more Franco, more better, or perhaps young 'uns, you might be better off arguing for more better public transport, more public housing, less burdensome university fees, better vocational training funded by government, more street libraries where people can share things, and so on and so forth, and now with the pond having been distracted by Franco, it's time for a final gobbet …

Butt, butt, butt billy goat, wasn't the pond told at the start of this very long haul that the acrid leftist universities had utterly failed to teach their students about certain legends of Communism, or to have much of a clue about socialism?

To use a good old Texas education board creationist phrase, the re-education had better start there, and along with learning about Mao and the rest, they might also learn that you can't tax a loss, which is why you're much better off socialising losses and privatising profits ...

The phrase has a number of synonyms, including "socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor" and "lemon socialism." The latter was coined in a 1974 New York Times op-ed about New York State's decision to buy two half-finished power plants from the struggling electric utility Consolidated Edison Co. for $500 million. The most-cited recent example of privatizing losses and socializing losses is the post-financial crisis bailout of banks, insurers and auto manufacturers. The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) of 2008 authorized the Treasury to spend $700 billion of taxpayer money (though only $426.4 billion was actually used) to rescue these firms, many of which had contributed to the crisis through reckless—and for a while, enormously profitable—investments in risky mortgage-backed derivatives. (See also, The 2007-08 Financial Crisis in Review.) Some of the failing firms' employees were awarded multimillion-dollar bonuses despite accepting money from TARP and the Federal Reserve. By contrast, 861,664 families lost their homes to foreclosure in 2008. The media and public widely perceived this contrast as exemplifying the support rich people receive from the government at the expense of ordinary citizens. (here)

And by golly this very day young 'uns, Malware has pulled off a classic coup in the same style, offering generous tax breaks to the rich, while doffing the tokenistic lid to the poor …

And now, while you wonder why you're in debt for years for trying to get an education and can only afford a one bedroom shack in Woop Woop, please allow another pond attempt to find a glorious example of Western Civilisation at work …

Remember keep what you've got, and lock the rest of the fuckers up so they can't touch it, and soon enough you'll be in the paradise of Western Civilisation, with the highest incarceration rate in the world ...

By golly, the pond loves the smell of napalm and Western Civilisation in the morning …