Rationalising the worst side

2 Responses to “Rationalising the worst side”

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• A NON FARMER

  22 September 2008 at 8:30 pm

  Torture.
  Some find it fun and arrange their careers so that they may exploit their power over others towards their personal gratification.
  Starts out at school when ‘team leaders’ are chosen by their ability to order their peers about.
  Given that this sort usually pander to the attentions of those who ‘overview’ the daily activity – the situation arises where the ‘educators’ get to goof off and leave the chookrun to the attentions of yet another generation of emerging corporate psychopaths.

  Of course – this is only my opinion based upon some fifty-plus years of life.

  I submit that some are more subtle than others but do reasonably suggest that the entire structure of society is subsumed towards the placement of a serried row of complete crackercats in every level of decisionmaking throughout our respective societies.

  Putting it simply – when was the last time you went along with a perfectly prepared case to a statutory decisionmaker for even the simplest matter without coming close to a coronary before the matter was resolved at the stroke of their pen?
  Then given this propensity – what do these people get up to in a situation where graft or the ability to exercise personal inclination becomes a factor?
• A NON FARMER

  2 October 2008 at 10:51 pm

  Dear Antony,
  For once I’d like to copy off something I sent elsewhere about difficulty in another land.
  I believe it is important enough to be repeated this once.
  Furthermore it appears I’m the only one stupid/ innocent/politically naive enough enough to respond to your missive.
  Her goes. An idea that might be applied elsewhere if we all relaxed a bit -

  “I have to say that Afghanistan has always accepted men of integrity.
  Most Afghanis speak of Iskandar as if he was a Great Uncle.
  I speak of Alexander the Great.

  What is it about Afghanistan that we have to interfere anyway?
  Is it because since Iskandar they abided no overlord for very long?
  Is it because they produced good Hashish?
  Is it because they fought off the might of the Soviet Union?

  Or is it because they are all an incredibly proud people who want no more than to go their own way towards solving their own problems in their own time????

  It really is such a bloody shame that if outside intervention is a no-choice situation for Afghanis – that our Australian and New Zealand troops do not have the resources to take the task on 100 percent.
  Because if they could – they might supplant Alexander’s legend, and by dint of similar values shared with such proud people, bring some respite and decency to a much oppressed land.”