funny how & taking care of the place
exit stage always right
Is Tony Abbott ‘a good man’ as Finance Minister Mathias Corban has it? Yes, if you perceive society as a fragile glass ball owned by the educated, which needs to be stringently protected from destruction by the uneducated and poor
Does Abbott deserve to be given ‘a break’? Don’t we all? But what lucky break has this man not already had and exploited? A good education. Raised male, English-speaking, and white. A supportive marriage, healthy children. Meanwhile he has spent much of his career depriving other people of such boons. I’d like to see the lucky breaks more evenly distributed.
To those who mourn his political passing, I’d say: I think it’s possible to support women leaving violent husbands, to support Indigenous self-determination and the arts, to build renewable energy sources whose economic demand is climbing and to fairly tax miners and manufacturers, without ruining the world as we know it. I’d say more moral generosity is what this world needs right now. And to those who feel they hate the man, I’d say: you can’t beat them by joining them. Hate is the refuge of those who have forgotten or are hiding their kinship with this real fellow human. Us and them thinking leads to dehumanisation of asylum seekers, neglect of homeless children, deaths in custody, rapes. I’d say more moral generosity is what this world needs right now. We can all contribute that.
Hug Cathoel, I agree. I can never kick a person when they are down. Good advice.
don’t love nor hate the man but he was not good for Australia…- don’t see society as fragile – see it as resilient… the world has always been dominated by the rich – the privileged…educated …a moral compass/generosity – is seemingly lacking but that too is the past, present and future and yes we could do with a boost to it— but as history tells us- moral generosity too has boundaries…
Yes, that’s very true. These are good points, Valli, and I agree. But the minute we start to say He Deserves to Be Shot (etc) we are no different to him who says, They Don’t Deserve to Live.
Moral generosity has boundaries. But I feel like we’re all well within them.
” fragile glass ball owned by the educated, which needs to be stringently protected from destruction by the uneducated and poor “..?
Who on earth thinks right-wing politicians are educated..!!!?
Abbott may not have made very gracious use of the educational resources he’s had lavished on him, but he’s still had the benefit of more education than most people get. So have I. Privilege confers responsibility.
Even right wing fools learned a lot about how not to govern by Abbott’s example.
Aint that the truth. I hope he stuffs up fast.
He may well stuff things up, but I fear the man has too much unenlightened self interest to stuff up his own prospects.
I meant stuff up in a visible way that gets him unelected in a year. :-) I don’t want stuff ups that do damage and no good. :)
I know just what you meant, Raelene! And I agree. I’m saying: it’s unlikely. He is far smoother and will likely do just enough (make some noise about climate, perhaps) to deflect opposition and get by.
Yeah but, I just want him to. Isn’t that enough? :( petulant pout
I agree, Peter, and I’m sure Turnbull will present the same policies, only far more plausibly.
I should hope all our politicians are educated, of whatever stripe. He’s just got evil, warped values.
He’s gone, he’s history. Let him not be forgotten.
Oh Cathoel, you’re so kind and compassionate. You can even forgive that twisted little thug Abbott! True he is a pathetic specimen and I’m not the only person whose worked in the psychiatric profession to be concerned about his mental condition. But I find it hard to feel sorry for him. Frankly (like much of the rest of Australia)I’ve been indulging in some much overdue Shaden freude, breaking into song and dance, greedily watching TV hoping for a glimpse of the Beast as it slinks out of office back into the weeds so I can have a good gloat at his humiliation.
Generally speaking hatred is not a nice feeling to have. Too much of it poisons the soul, and that is exactly what Abbott has been doing these last few years; Oozing hatred into our Society like a cane toad poisoning the water supply and we haven been drinking his toxic effluent for years now. We are all sickened from this poison and now it is being vomited back at him.
But some times you HAVE to hate. Sometimes it is good to hate, it is human to hate. If you don’t hate Injustice, for example, why would you fight it?
So I hate Tony Abbott, I hate his beliefs, actions, religion and philosophy. I hate his smarmy, evil, sweaty fucking face. And that’s OK! This is part of the purging. the detoxification, and when it’s over we will forget him and it will be as though he never was. I look forward to that day.
I din’t hate him, exactly. I hope his chooks turn into emus and kick his dunny down. And crap on his face.
I think I gotcha. So long as random feathered creatures are willing to take out the hating, for you… Maybe chickens are exempt from the wheels of karma.