Ginger Gorman is an award-winning journalist based in the Australian Capital Territory and, in 2013, was the target of vicious online trolling (many women are), which included a death threat….
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This is part of a speech I saw which was given on November 7th in parliament. It is worth reading: “I’m really proud to stand in this House today for…
Environment Editor at Guardian Australia, Adam Morton tweeted the following on Friday (8/11/2019): “Just to recap Today’s fires are ‘unprecedented’ The fires in Queensland earlier this year were ‘unprecedented’ The…
Although similar things have happened before with regard to the danger we face from climate change, they have never been this large: More than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries around…
Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it a political or a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity … The power of the one needs the stupidity of the other. The process at work here is not that particular human capacities, for instance, the intellect, suddenly atrophy or fail. Instead, it seems that under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the emerging circumstances. The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversations with him one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings.
Just over a year ago, I wrote a piece about the slow slide to fascism in Australia, which mentioned some legislative ‘innovations’ by the current Coalition government. These included legislation…
All sorts of concerned citizens constantly point out to the government the failings of the current system under which we operate, where many tens of thousands are homeless, where people…