The pond doesn't just look forward to the Major on a Monday to see if he's finally found that Order of Lenin medal that got lost way back when …
It's also that in his own ineffable way, the Major manages to sound deeply silly, and whenever he offers a lesson in critical thinking, the pond understands that what he really means is a lesson in fundamentalist right-wing thinking …
Always with the clean dinkum Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, which reminds the pond that it should pay heed to the lizard Oz editorialist, busy trying to work out how the reptiles might get on board the latest climate denialist crusade …
Yes, there's going to be a sustained push by the Murdochians to degut Paris, and march in step with the Donald ...
After all, the Donald has an impeccable environmental record, as noted by Rowe, with more Rowe here …
One swamp creature goes, but others remain and the policies continue … and so on with the cry, dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi …
Yes, the crusade is warming up nicely, and so it's back to the Major Mitchell, doing his bit for the cause, because the hive mind requires that everyone join in the crusade …
Is the pond irritated by the Major blathering on about fake news, and then leading with the notion that Australia contributes only 1.3%, thereby ignoring per capita figures and discounting the contribution of all that exported coal?
The figures are a tad old, but the pond loves a good graph, with active links and more here …
Or if you will…
More here, but don't expect the Major to worry about that reliable old shop philosophy, "you break it, you own it…"
It's impossible to unpack the Major's assorted chunks of beefy nonsense in a short time, but the pond will have a go at a few in those last pars …
One week the reptiles are blathering about the Judeo-Christian tradition, which came from the east, or at least, if wearing blinkered British glasses, the middle east, and the next the Major is blathering about ancient Greece and Rome … but if the pond had two cents to gamble on the most important elements in the spread of certain kinds of "civilisation" around the world, it would put its money on paper and gunpowder …
And the absolute truth in this matter is that the Major is routinely a twit, there being more to life and complexity and societal interactions than his silliness allows … though it does help explain why he wasted so much time myopically hunting for an Order of Lenin medal …
You don't have to go the Four Great Inventions routine to realise that pillaging and borrowing ideas has been a world-wide practice for a very long time …
And that story about welcome-to-country ceremonies is a half-baked distortion of the memories of those who were there, no doubt because the Major refracted it through the sensibilities of Akker Dakker …
According to Walley, they didn't come up with a plan …
He was surprised vs. He came up with the plan …??
Well there's more here, but it's just another example of how the Major relentlessly distorts almost everything he scribbles about …
But that's what happens with ideologues that relentlessly insist that their blinkered truth is the only insight available to humanity …
Fortunately reality is a little more diverse and post-modern …
Ah, good old diversity and relativism, it's everywhere …
Ah, DP, yes the Major is a true wonder, isn't he. I'm not sure if any other reptile, even the Bolter, is so completely ignorant of reality (though Acker Dacker might come awful close). So once again Maj Mitch trots out his full catechism of RWNJ 'holy lies' for our admiring amusement.
ReplyDeleteThe one I liked best this time around is: "Hailing bogus solutions such as South Australia's Elon Musk-supplied battery, which could keep the state powered for a few minutes at best, is fake news."
It just doesn't matter how many times it is explained that the SA Battery was never intended to "keep the state powered" for more than a very few minutes, Maj Mitch and the herpetarium have that lie well and truly planted in their Book of Common Lies from whence, just like Lenin medals, it will be trotted out for eternity. Or at least until the human race dies off (which, given the nature of the RWNJs may not be all that far into the future).
But what is truly hilarious at all times and in every way, is the Maj's claim (echoed by the entire RWNJ subspecies) to actually having some capacity for rationality and honesty. That one breaks me up every time.
Re the curse of plastic bags and plastic altogether the June edition of National Geographic has an excellent feature essay on the topic.
ReplyDeleteStrange, but not really, how the "conservative" reptiles seem to be uniformly against such a modest proposal re phasing out single use plastic bags.
Meanwhile some/many people seem to think that having to take your own bags to the supermarket is an imposition on their freedom and wasteful life style.
In the country town where i live up until now most people at my local supermarkets never ever take a bag with them even when they have quite obviously made a special trip just to buy even a few items which could easily fit into one or two reusable bags.