Not content with losing his contract with Rugby Australia and Rugby New South Wales because of his hateful tweet about homosexuals being condemned to hell unless they repent1, now the…
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The government of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has decided to withdraw from the Commonwealth School Chaplaincy Program. The program was started by the Howard government in 2007, and it…
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.
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…
I had a bloke called Sheldon (?) remind me of all the dodgy characters who have created superficially respectable names for their nefarious activities. He was an ‘antivaxxer’ (i.e. an…
The Coalition state Minister for Western New South Wales, Adam Marshall, has vowed to support any local government councils that want to use recycled waste water to supplement their drinking…