..Apparatchicks

Was alarmed to find one of our current Ministers in charge of two critical economic portfolio had not graduated from high school. More to the point virtually not one technologist in all our current crop of parliamentarians. Most having come to power as politicians and apparatchicks. ‘ Vote for the person who promises least – they will be the least disappointing’

..still serfs

18th September 2022. I look with amusement at the hour long queues to view the coffin of a dead monarch. A monarch whose dynasty has seized a vast amount of the communal wealth for their own purposes and comfort. Delusion on a grand scale. – -‘Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest ‘ – Diderot

Nine years in the wilderness…

17th August 2022. I am still recovering after more revelations of Australia’s nine years in the wilderness in the grip of rogues, thieves and liars, no not all, but enough to make me question a system of government which allowed it to happen. ‘A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.’