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#which-way “What’s that you say?”“Which way to Democracy?”“No, I’m sorry, you can’t get there from here”#politics #death-of-democracy Democracy did not fail this November with the election by the American Deplorables of Donald Trump, Democracy failed near 50 years ago when the supposed left, the...
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False Certainty, Certain Falsity - My World
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Through all of human existence, people have lived their lives immersed in ignorant myth & delusion. The content of the myths & delusions may have varied with time & place, but the certainty of the belief in them has been universal throughout all of time. Now, in this time & place at least, that...
on Sep 21
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I had a cousin, name of Henry, penner of poems an’ stories Australia’s favourite son they say …
on Aug 7
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It is very hard to understand the actions of politicians when every idea that you have of them is wrong. There is no blame to be assigned in misunderstanding, that is their very intention, & th…
on Jul 16
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Currently reading the introduction of Globalists: The End of Empire & the Birth of Neoliberalism. My thoughts on global, supranational, control, stem from my Australian experience, & are ba…
on Jul 14
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A siren’s song of love & hatred
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Biden, Trump, Starmer … Look at the people you love & hate in politics, a few years ago it would have been different people, a few years before that … you get my jist. Remember the …
on Jul 8
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So long Liberal Democracy, it was great knowing you
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Visit the post for more.
on Jul 7
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Neoliberal government, & you, the person in the street.
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It makes no difference to you if you are bog poor, cast(e) out, discarded by society, destitute, denied any acceptable place in society, for whatever reason that society deems fit, or unfit; or a p…
on Jun 24
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Wealth can be gained in different ways, but its ownership is seen as success, having more wealth is seen as better than having less. So much so that many people would see that statement as a pointless truism. A more successful person is a better person. Someone with little or no wealth is...
on Apr 13
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#RandomThoughts Sundaymust be lamb today cos beef was last weekthe Moody Blues didn’t mention the corned beef next week & pork the week aftercreatures of habit, we
on Mar 31
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Oligarchs & Nationhood - peter relph
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Looking at the way that the oligarchy, the plutocracy, is using the national politicians that it owns, as puppets to their own commercial or political power seeking ends. At first glimpse, the fact that the oligarchs own the politicians & use them for their own profit & rent seeking ends might...
on Mar 22
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Community versus Indidividuality - peter relph
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How is it possible that in a human world that has survived for 100,000 + years, only surviving by virtue of people forming cooperative, self-reinforcing communities & fighting against the primitive individualist barbarians on the outside who have from the very beginning assaulted the communities...
on Mar 21
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Panpartisan Australia - peter relph
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People are reluctant to accept the word bipartisan, how about panpartisan? There is no party in parliament in Australia that is not Neoliberal in their actions, which is all that matters, forget their words, they are meaningless if not backed up by actions. At the moment, since 1983 in fact, we...
on Mar 19
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Distressing Gatekeepers - peter relph
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How not to make friends & influence people It appears that my lot in life is to upset gatekeepers, be they fascist or avowedly antifascist. Three instances now have decided that they don’t want me to be a part of them, it would appear from my lack of access to Kolektiva Dot Social. Such is…...
on Mar 19
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Neoliberal Logic - 1 - peter relph
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Neoliberalism posits, suggests, many things that make no sense in our human world, maybe in some parallel universe up a Neoliberal wormhole, but just not in our world. One thing that it suggested by our financial gurus in the past year or so is that when you have inflation, caused in this...
on Mar 14
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Naked Treasurers - peter relph
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It is that time of the year again in Australia when everyone follows the Naked Treasurer around telling him how gloriously arrayed he is in his Budget Surplus. Politicians & journalists alike, friends telling him how well he is doing in achieving this mythical Surplus, enemies telling him to try...
on Mar 14
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Hypothetical Billionaires - peter relph
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Just analysing the financial aspects of the life of a hypothetical billionaire. Let us say our hypothetical parasite is 62 years of age & has amassed $33bn If they were the most industrious of workers creating useful goods or services for the benefit of themselves & the community of which they...
on Mar 1
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Israel: The Prodigal Son who returns after 2000 years to throw everyone out of the family home & pick fights with all the neighbours. That’s the last time they’ll kill the fatted calf for you son.
on Mar 1
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I need to spell out in detail that which I have seen as screamingly, blatantly, obvious for some years now; not a full decade but well on the way to that. I had, in my ignorance, assumed that most people would by now have seen the situation for what it is. I was wrong. So,… Continue reading 26 Feb 2024
on Mar 1
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Who is to Blame? - peter relph
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Who is to blame? The so-called liberal democratic system that formed the basis of our western political world in the years of my youth, immediately post World War II, was based on the assumption of a political left & right balancing & checking each other to prevent either side becoming dominant....
on Mar 1
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testing visibility - peter relph
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Testing Visibility Testing visibility to followers
on Mar 1
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People futilely send plaintive appeals to anyone who might be able to stop the Israeli massacre of the folks in Gaza & the forced displacement of the Palestinians in what remains of the West Bank. But, seriously, if anyone who had the power also had the inclination, it would have happened long...
on Mar 1
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This applies to anyone who knows me as @peterrelph2 @kolektiva.social or @peterrelph @catodon.social or @peterrelph @mastodon.world Peter Relph Click the button to follow
on Mar 1
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A Generational Timeline - some random sensor
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My Great Great Great Grandparents saw the first steamboats, saw ‘The First Fleet’ sail from England to Terra Australis. They heard of the French & American Revolutions. They saw & experienced all their lives the Industrial Revolution, never had society changed so much in one lifetime before.(In...
on Jan 31
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Reblog via bill I often make the point in talks that the fictional world that mainstream economists promote leads to poor decisions in the real world by our policy makers. We saw that in the 1980s and 1990s with the large scale privatisations of public enterprises, touted as...
on Jan 31
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Reblog via James Milot A lot of people are apparently twigging to the fact that the transhumanist/accelerationist/longtermist/effective altruist/singularitarian threads that run through the entirety of silicon valley and the Western technosocial context is intimately, innately tied to the...
on Jan 31
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Reblog via bill I often make the point in talks that the fictional world that mainstream economists promote leads to poor decisions in the real world by our policy makers. We saw that in the 1980s and 1990s with the large scale privatisations of public enterprises, touted as...
on Jan 31
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Reblog via bill I often make the point in talks that the fictional world that mainstream economists promote leads to poor decisions in the real world by our policy makers. We saw that in the 1980s and 1990s with the large scale privatisations of public enterprises, touted as...
on Jan 31