What with Polonius having cornered the market on prattling Hamlet metaphors, it seems only fair and just to give nattering "Ned" the status of the ancient mariner, stopping wedding guests and warning of trouble afoot ...
There was a splendid example today ... though some might argue that Chicken Little remains the strongest metaphor for this arrow, as it darts from its jolly ye olde world quiver ...
What could have produced this dire situation?
Ah, the work of 18C! How did the pond know this?
The reptiles tell the pond it's so ...though it's passing strange that nattering "Ned" doesn't seem to have caught up with this news ...
The reptiles tell the pond it's so ...though it's passing strange that nattering "Ned" doesn't seem to have caught up with this news ...
Indeed, indeed. It's Yeatsian, apocalyptic, the centre can't hold, the falcon can't hear the nattering falconer, indignant desert birds screech, and reptile beasts slouch towards Canberra to be born ...
Actually and bizarrely, Chairman Rupert remains rich enough to indulge a bunch of self-interested, dysfunctional members of the political commentariat, constantly moaning about 18C.
With this sort of Greek chorus drowning out any signs of intelligent life, is it any wonder that the Liberal government has run into troubled waters?
Is it any wonder that Ken Henry has given up on a mob that nattering "Ned" himself characterises as noisy clamouring populist galahs. Yes, that's you he's talking about, Bolter. Come on, let's see a reptile v. reptile fight ...
Is it any wonder that Ken Henry has given up on a mob that nattering "Ned" himself characterises as noisy clamouring populist galahs. Yes, that's you he's talking about, Bolter. Come on, let's see a reptile v. reptile fight ...
The reptiles have, in their navel-gazing way, distracted and demonised, and cultivated a climate denialist alt right, and what has been the result?
More navel gazing, as explained by David Rowe, with more Rowe here ...
Ok, so what have we from Neddles;
ReplyDelete"What matters for the nation is the chasm between politics and national-interest policy."
Nope, what really matters is the yawning chasm between reptiles, and especially senescent cloud-shouters such as Ned, and any understanding of macroeconomics, sociology, history and ideology. Hence the appalling nonsense they write. But then, as Kahneman and Tversky have convincingly shown, thinking is difficult, time consuming, costly and error prone. Best to bypass it altogether.
"He [Ken Henry] has virtually given up on the system."
Just as well he hasn't given up literally, then. But Ken's a dear old chap, who is trying to rescue the hairy-nosed wombat and who substantially rescued Australia from the GFC (according to Joseph Stigliz anyway - but he's just an economics Nobel winner and ex-chief economist of the World Bank).
However, Ken was, and still is, a convinced economic rationalist (or econorat for short) who is still proselytizing his failed ideology. His "giving up" is a very good sign.