The Daily Terror and the vision thingie ...

 (Above: the Terror's splendid vision of Sydney as the new Dubai).

Lesser souls - the pond hesitates to use more evocative and procative words when talking about the peons and peasants living in the outermost rings of hell, far from the delights of Sydney - have most likely missed out on the recent talk of transforming visions which will see the land's fairest city turn from a fragrant butterfly into an ecstatic vision of heaven ...

All the pond can do is pity these wretches and shed a tear at the delight to be gained from reading Mark Day ...

Yes, there's nothing like seeing a Murdochian up other Murdochians in a right royal fashion to make the pond's day, and so we must proceed on to a discussion of the vision thingie ...

Indeed, indeed.

There's nothing like building an airport without a rail link to establish the grand sense of vision that fuels Sydney's infrastructure ...

But can we see the Terror in action when it comes to the vision thingie?

You know, how would you celebrate the building of light rail in the city, as after decades someone gets around to laying down the tracks torn up by a Labor government in the 1950s?

Ah, there's nothing like a good old dose of tabloid hysteria is there?

You can imagine how the Terrorists would have handled the London Blitz.

But thus fortified, we can now endure the rest of Mark Day's self-serving swill ...

Now you might think that a vision thingie that limits itself to a mention of the Opera House, and perhaps a multi-function polis, is a tad shy of the vision thingie itself ...

And you might wonder how a tabloid rag that has Miranda the Devine railing at climate science and feminists and whatever else you've got, and  Akker Dakker and the Bolter railing at anything and everything ...

And you might marvel at whole pack of the Murdochian commentariat moaning about broadband and connectivity, and doing their best to do it down, and you might wonder how any of them could ever imagine they were symbols of the vision thingie ...

.... as opposed to being the trashiest sort of nattering negativity that might be found across this fair land ... but to be fair, we have indeed travelled back to the future, and it is copper, and HFC, and that sort of achievement should be recognised, and the Murdochians celebrated for what they have wrought ...

Yes, you might read Press Council slams Daily Telegraph for NBN beat-up articles and see why we've ended up with a more expensive, third rate, slower broadband system, as the Liberal government cowered under the onslaught of the Murdochians and the pre-Copernican luddite obscurantist conformed to their desire to keep the road free for Foxtel ...

Which is why the pond, if it discovers a stray Terror left on a train seat, always throws it in the bin. What if a young and impressionable child discovered that the vision thingie meant Victorian copper?

What is it with the Murdochians and the vision thingie? Only if liars lying was a vision thingie ...

Why it's as preposterous as reading about Jerry Hall and Chairman Rupert.

As for climate science, here's the vision thingie at work (twitter it here):

And here's the visionaries who helped set that vision thingie in motion:

If that's the vision thingie at work, can we just have a little less of the vision ...