For some obscure and bizarre reason, Crikey proposed that everybody should ignore Cory Bernardi and his latest epic work, as somehow being a good, sound and sane way to start the new year.
What silliness, what nonsense.
It's the pond's duty to draw attention to the splendid reviews Senator Bernardi's tome has attracted at Amazon, which you can find at the tome's listing The Conservative Revolution (yes, the pond uses tome when seeking to inflict the maximum amount of linguistic pain).
In case you can't be bothered clicking on the link - really to lift a finger or smell a sparrow's fart might be too hard when it comes to caring about the thoughts of comrade Bernardi - please allow the pond to present a few screen cap samples:
Childish? Of course, but remember that famous biblical saying, 1 Corinthians 13:11, which perhaps helps explain Crikey's stance.
Presumably Bernardi thinks he is following his fearless leader, who published Battlelines on his way to power, but he failed to understand that when you think and write like a child, a zealous rabid ideological child, you're likely to be treated as a child rather than as a visionary, an intellectual and a future leader:
It is interesting to note the endorsements on the cover and back. Bolt is right that Senator Bernardi opens conversations others want closed. I want judgemental, divisive, sectarian-based, denigrating attacks on groups of people in Australian society to stop. Then there is Sophie Monk saying that Senator Bernardi explains "complex political philosophy" to the masses, meanwhile claiming that such "complex political philosophy" is mainstream. This is contradictory since if it is mainstream, then there is no need to explain it to the general public, unless one supposes that the public adopt viewpoints without any thought processes taking place. I note that in referring to Ms Monk's endorsement, the publishers omit to mention that she is a Dame of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, an order which was founded way back in the 11th and 12th centuries. The motto of the order is "God wills it". Yes, let's roll back history to the glory days of the Crusades and sectarian division to make public discourse on anything with which the Roman Catholic hierarchy disagrees anathema.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the laugh, Dorothy. The reviews were quite good - almost on par with the 3 wolf shirt.
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