Taking the centre … Out of the cyclone …!

Taking the centre … out of the cyclone …!

Well, I did another art@work effort and passed it through “The Australian” system. I got clipped again: must be slipping back form 301 to 101 levels! Too emotional again?

Anyway, on the assumption that you are not the ‘evil editor’ I have enclosed my original ‘ode to the hero’ which I think has more earthly colour than the more sanitised published version (http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/phillipadams/index.php/theaustralian/comments/taking_the_wind_out_of_cyclone_john/P260/ ).

Why do they/you do this? The Age doesn’t seem to care as much how their bloggers employ their egos for the ‘enjoyment’ of others! Is it for our protection, or for the paper’s image as a rage of ‘sandstone’ distinction?


INPUT

Well done Phillip Adams. Even if you were half the prick that some of these right-wing spleens have indicated here, for many of us you are a local “George, the Slayer of Dragons”.

That you seem to be the only left-wing counter weight to the otherwise right-wing bias in this paper can only be put down, I think, to a deal that ‘old Kerry’ made to keep you on. If so, then it was probably the one good thing he did for posterity. You do seem a touch like Odysseus inside the walls of Troy.

In terms of your words above: they are spot on, and what many here do not seem to appreciate, they reflect a definite mood change in the society. I notice it in other areas also. The ‘tone @ the top’ is changing across many fields. The cult of the leader is dead and a new educated ‘online’ generation is @ work. Howard, Ruddock and Downer are not only ‘on the nose’ but symbolise a style of shonky ‘ethics’ that have become cartoon like for many of those awakened from the ‘Matrix of Neo-con-ism’.

The economy is what it is because of basic fundamental changes achieved by Keating et al in earlier decades! The China boom has driven the recent extended prosperity wave, which even a “drover’s dog” could have ridden like the back of a farmer’s ute.

Buffoons like Downer, Tolkien whispering “Worm Tongues” like Ruddock, and the strange ‘Gollum like’ Howard, who has little left of his right to govern with an ethical mandate from heaven, are now, for many, standing on the dirt road with the dust of history fast rising to obscure their sallow faces.

There is accountability, and in this world the sacrifice of the ‘king’ is part of the system of expunging the collective guilt. We are guilty collectively for the fiasco in Iraq as a bare minimum, not to mention the other classic sins (falling short) you have raised. To continue the ring metaphor, or is it simile, our little Sméagol has been dropped in the poo along with the dark wizard from the Tower of London, and the Eye of Mordor that has emanated from the place formally referred to as the Washington “White House”. The ‘fellowship’ of the willing, has become the end game of those that will use any ring to rule.

Bring on the next set of actors please. This one has not only become boring, but dangerous to our international image – if there is any left. Basically, I sense that Howard, like at the end of the days for old Bob Hawke, now just triggers the cultural cringe that we are all plagued with down under. It is time these three stooges slinked off to obscurity where they belong: we owe it to our future generations to end this farce in late 2007.

Bring on Ruddsville – at least it won’t be Dullsville, especially if we get our money’s worth from various commissions into the political shenanigans down-under at the turn of the millennium.

TRANSFORMATION

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OUTPUT

Russell_c of Perth (13 March at 02:54 PM)

Well done, Phillip Adams. Even if you were half the prick that some of these right-wing spleens have indicated here, for many of us you are a local “George, the Slayer of Dragons”.

What many here do not seem to appreciate is you reflect a mood change in society. I notice it in other areas also. The cult of the leader is dead and a new educated online generation is at work. Howard, Ruddock and Downer are not only on the nose but symbolise a style of shonky ethics that have become cartoon-like for many of the awakened from the “Matrix of Neo-con-ism”.

The economy is what it is because of basic fundamental changes achieved by Keating et al in earlier decades! The China boom has driven the recent extended prosperity wave, which even a “drover’s dog” could have ridden like the back of a farmer’s ute.

There is accountability, and in this world the sacrifice of the “king” is part of the system of expunging the collective guilt. We are guilty collectively for the fiasco in Iraq, not to mention the other classic sins you have raised.
Bring on the next set of actors please. This one has not only become boring, but dangerous to our international image. Howard, like at the end of the days for old Bob Hawke, now just triggers the cultural cringe that we are plagued with.

It is time these three stooges slinked off to obscurity where they belong: we owe it to our future generations to end this farce. Bring on Ruddsville – at least it won’t be Dullsville.