So, Australia is a shit show. It’s on the last bit of free fall to the bottom of the well. The “She’ll be right, Mate!” mentality needs to be over. The apathy needs to stop. Education has failed. Healthcare has failed. Social Welfare has failed. Equality has failed. Immigration has failed. Environmental Protection has failed. This is a deliberately broad list as it includes every issue we all know about in one neat package. All of our systems have failed. Every single issue that we blog about, tweet about, facebook about, protest about (in areas where protesting hasn’t been made illegal) is symptomatic of a government who has failed us.
Yes, it needed bold italics. There is too much compartmentalisation happening with regard to action. No one issue is more important than the other. They are all important and what do they all have in common? Government inaction and repression. People banging on about the ‘Rule of Law’ seeing us right in the end have their heads shoved so far up their arses they can’t see the goal posts have been moved. The government is quite literally changing the Law to suit their own purpose, amending legislation to forward their own design. When I say ‘their design’, a majority of the time it isn’t even an idea that’s come from their own head. It comes from the corporations, lobbyists, the few with everything who want to keep it that way. Class warfare at its finest with the corporatocracy leading the charge.
The onus of responsibility for our very existence has been given to a room full of spoilt children fighting for the last red frogs in a bowl that’s been put there by a hand full of psychopaths. “In the immortal words of The Doors, ‘The time to hesitate is through’.” - Lucas, Empire Records (1995)