tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post5474179935572029497..comments2024-03-29T22:18:45.103+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which all roads lead to Orwell and Bill forgets his Bill ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-66753838966022563882014-09-09T11:14:43.003+10:002014-09-09T11:14:43.003+10:00The powerful have techniques to move people to act...The powerful have techniques to move people to action, paying them a wage is one way but it tends to be expensive on its own. Appealing to fears, desires, hate and even things like principle ideology and moral superiority are very effective ways to bring the cost of action down.<br /><br />On one hand I agree that criminals should be stopped, I don't have love for ISIS, but I also acknowledge that the circumstances that spawn crime culture in the first place need to be addressed, and generally I find the ruthless ambitions of a few create the circumstances of many; economic Dictators are not completely innocent of directly or indirectly furnishing conditions around the world, including hotbeds for extremism like the Middle East.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08399113887444916719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-58629704294660286422014-09-05T15:31:05.521+10:002014-09-05T15:31:05.521+10:00My grandmother would be appalled at your denigrati...My grandmother would be appalled at your denigration of the noble antimacassar which could be starched so stiff it would gleam and cut better than a cut throat, and then you'd find out about auras ... maybe even have a chat with Conan Doyle about whether you should have used that Reckitt's blue bag ...<br />But the pond will accept that Howard had the aura of the desiccated coconut on a lamington ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-79256173476921688582014-09-05T14:51:33.068+10:002014-09-05T14:51:33.068+10:00Continued ....
.... an antimacassar on a maroon ve...Continued ....<br />.... an antimacassar on a maroon velour armchair, a concrete swan filled with magenta petunias and orange marigolds and displayed in the centre of the lawn, a Banana and coconut custard made with flavored powder from a packet, shirts with logos, halitosis, signed cricket Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-39548191591199349752014-09-05T14:45:23.094+10:002014-09-05T14:45:23.094+10:00Got you on catch up today Dot.
Just caught up with...Got you on catch up today Dot.<br />Just caught up with Saava's ref to the 'Howard aura'.<br />Did he have one? Did that trackie throb with a golden glow?<br />I missed it entirely.<br />All I remember was the voice, that March fly drone. <br />Howard had the 'aura' of an antimacassarAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-51449626350707903932014-09-05T08:31:51.086+10:002014-09-05T08:31:51.086+10:00The pond still likes "the fascist mind" ...The pond still likes "the fascist mind" since that's where the authoritarians want to end up ... unless they happen to be Pellists and they then run a trucking company ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-24688155776774736102014-09-05T08:11:43.492+10:002014-09-05T08:11:43.492+10:00Why did people vot for the likes of Abbott, Hockey...Why did people vot for the likes of Abbott, Hockey, Brandis, Morrison, Pyne etc.?<br /><br />I think Fromm nailed it in 1957.<br /><br />https://www.marxists.org/archive/fromm/works/1957/authoritarian.htm<br /><br />"What do we mean by “authoritarian personality”? We usually see a clear difference between the individual who wants to rule, control, or restrain others and the individual who tends to submit, obey, or to be humiliated. To use a somewhat friendlier term, we might talk of the leader and his followers. As natural as the difference between the ruling and the ruled might — in many ways — be, we also have to admit that these two types, or as we can also say, these two forms of authoritarian personality are actually tightly bound together.<br /><br />What they have in common, what defines the essence of the authoritarian personality is an inability: the inability to rely on one’s self, to be independent, to put it in other words: to endure freedom."<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-84056362923675926672014-09-05T03:46:42.966+10:002014-09-05T03:46:42.966+10:00Family First's Bob Day opened his maiden speec...Family First's Bob Day opened his maiden speech with a quote from Oscar Wilde.<br /><br />Yes, really.<br /><br />Then he called for the end of compulsory high school and scrapping the minimum wageAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-35392134843605108742014-09-04T20:02:39.045+10:002014-09-04T20:02:39.045+10:00Dorothy, check out gamergate, fresh generation of ...Dorothy, check out gamergate, fresh generation of loons on inbound trajectory...Mansplanationsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-63944044019437520722014-09-04T20:00:13.906+10:002014-09-04T20:00:13.906+10:00So, the PM is off to India
http://news.oneindia.in...So, the PM is off to India<br />http://news.oneindia.in/india/australian-prime-minister-tony-abbott-begins-india-trip-from-mumbai-1515011.html<br />Good for a wink, if they don't get to change the pic of Tony Blair. Altho, I guess one arse is as good as another. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-67522656967503590632014-09-04T19:28:16.205+10:002014-09-04T19:28:16.205+10:00Winner! No one stood a chance against that selecti...Winner! No one stood a chance against that selection.dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-43190344002227964652014-09-04T14:05:12.029+10:002014-09-04T14:05:12.029+10:00As always DP,a spot on analysis of the chaotic,day...As always DP,a spot on analysis of the chaotic,day after day fiasco of our political masters. Must invest in anti depressants market post haste.<br />Re;the the farcical two-bit flea circus,masquerading as responsible Govt. here in Victoria. Brian Dawe,speaking on 774 radio this morning says he believes he has a strong case with the ACCC for infringement of trade on behalf of all comedians and satirists.Too bloody right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-51638575528144394872014-09-04T12:51:32.748+10:002014-09-04T12:51:32.748+10:00I thought Bill Shorten's speech about super wa...I thought Bill Shorten's speech about super was pretty darn good, actually. Jonathan Shawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09578332677544175692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-81067919821052779322014-09-04T12:48:33.672+10:002014-09-04T12:48:33.672+10:00And you now have to pay more to read the crap.
ht...And you now have to pay more to read the crap.<br /><br />http://mumbrella.com.au/news-corps-daily-telegraph-raises-price-enewspaper-app-320-per-cent-249238<br /><br />Is this the beginning of the end for News Corp?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-55768402773686589462014-09-04T11:38:58.123+10:002014-09-04T11:38:58.123+10:00The Libs don't like super? pfft right, they&#...The Libs don't like super? pfft right, they're also 'friends of small business' so sshh we won't mention the rest of the 'hoax (Twiggy's word not mine) mining tax' deal, o ok we will http://www.businessinsider.com.au/small-business-will-pay-for-the-mining-tax-repeal-losing-billions-of-dollars-in-asset-depreciation-2014-9. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com