Politics/class
I feel like Australia is increasingly becoming stratified. There are people who are still a bit more protected but the people at the bottom are left fighting each other for scraps and dragging each other down like crabs in a bucket.
Occupy Melbourne was incoherent and quickly squashed but these are the living conditions that were predicted and protested
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Apparently the revolutionary French visited Australia and declared Australia practised “Socialism without doctrine”. That was long ago and trades hall today is a museum of collapsed trade unions. Both left and right totalitarian systems are currently regarded as frightfully modern era and intemperate. I can’t wait to see what comes after post-modernism.It’s going to keep getting worse too. I give us about 4 years.
It has always been like this.
For a few decades the middle class forgot they were still part of the proletariat and weren’t really independent bourgeoisie.
Occupy was a Russian front, ignore it.
What the Marxists never say, or maybe they never figured it out, is that America and Australia only had good post war living standards for the working classes because they were the only western countries that hadn’t had their factories bombed to the shithouse. It meant we became primary and secondary industry powerhouses. But once industry had enough money again and factories could be built in places with cheaper labour we were doomed. That’s what capitalism is.
me and my husband had to get professional jobs overseas to escape the old boy network and that was 25 years ago
Just last week, John Quiggin released a book on pretty much this exact topic, called “After Neoliberalism”.
You can download the eBook for free, or order a printed copy here: https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/global-thinkers-series/after-neoliberalism
If you’re interested in an in-depth look at the economic and government policies that erosion of the middle class happened, it’s worth a read.
I’m not sure about downloading or ordering but I found this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj4ha2QCX1w
Sadly it’d probably just confirm what I already have a sense of.
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose.
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine.
The poor and wretched don’t escape
If they conspire the law to break;
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law.
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back
~Late 1700s
🎶it’s a DAAAAMN COLLLLD niggght🎵
I’m waiting for the nights to get warmer so I can finish some painting outside
This morning was rough. I had a sleep in, and it was still like 5 degrees when I woke up. 12.5 in my room, but I slept with the electric blanket on low last night, so my fingers and toes were really chilly.
First thing I did was get up, turn the electric blanket onto high to defrost, then hit the heater and go back to bed for an hour until it warmed up
I had to remove the electric blanket yesterday to clean a spill and let the sponged spots dry. Suffering. I make two hot water bottles now
🎶 Trying to figure OUUUUT this life! 🎶
🎵Won’t you Take me by the hand Take me somewhere new I don’t know who you are But I… I’m with you 🎵
I am not ashamed to say that I cried at the end of Deadpool when the song came on.
Just two more points and the Hawks would have knocked off GWS.
So disappointing 😞
Yeah. It was so close. I tipped the hawks to win that one as well :(
My first headache in years. Ouch. I think it’s dust from the new old cupboard and spring glare
Hope it goes quickly! 🖤
Thanks, I had some aspirin and rested , it seems to be better now
I had a dream last night that the woman buying my sewing machine on Marketplace accidentally gave me way too much money (like a couple of thousand instead of a hundred). I knew the right thing to do was to let her know and give the extra cash back, but holding a big wad of money was way too tempting. I was still wresting between my decision as to whether to do the right thing or keep the money when I woke up.
Keep the money and invest in avocados. She clearly doesn’t need it
Interesting…
Wrestling with any big decisions?
I want cooookiiieess to go with my evening cuppa… but I’m too lazy to wear real clothes to go to the shops… I’ll save myself some calories tonight then 😮💨
Woot! Free cast iron griddle. Not the same colour as my other stuff, but who cares about that.
Tucked-in Mickey
Kitty!!!
I want to join him
He’s smiling
Nawww 😻
Best cat. Deserves all the scratches behind the ears ❤️
Hi Mickey. Luv U 😘
Anti-gratitude thread.
Got like five hours of sleep and woke up late for work. Was a minute late. Every Sunday it’s the same and I feel like I’m sacrificing my mental health for the sake of this three hour shift. But it’s the only consistent shift I get. Time to look for a new job I reckon. Once I finish uni, I shall exit retail.
no buses and trams in the city 😡
I have some mince which I think is freezer burnt :(
It’s a beautiful looking day outside and I am once again trapped inside at work.
I have to do something today I really don’t want to, but I have no choice. Ah well, it won’t be long now.
Good luck 🫡
Planning has begun for a trip to LA28 Olympics. Might as well tick that box before departing this mortal coil.
So jelly.
It’s a long way off but the spark of a plan is there so that’s something.
🎶WHEN I WAS
A YOUNG BOY
MY FATHER
TOOK ME INTO THE CITY
TO SEE A MARCHING BAND
HE SAID SON WHEN YOU GROW UP
Watched Fried Green Tomatoes. What a sweet and very 90s movie. I felt all the warm and tinglies. Jessica Tandy was very lovely but her accent was all over the place which was distracting…
Late night Movie Review. The Gold of Rome. Italy.1960. Re-enactment of German occupation of Rome in wwii and the extortion of the Italian Jewish population.
3 hobbits.
The Abandoned. 1955. Italy. wwii Italy, a young aristo is challenged to become involved and join the cause against Germany when refugees from the bombing of Milan are assigned to his villa.
3 hobbits
Both these B&W movies are beautifully shot and acted and they add to understanding modern history of Italy.
I love your rating scale.
Gratitude thread!
The sun :) and only a few weeks (??) left hopefully of super coldness. Every year, I forget when it starts to warm up.
I have both bocconcini and bolognese sauce to use for dinner tonight.
Sun sun sun sun sun 🌞
Super grateful that my diarrhoea episode ended very quickly and my guts don’t seem to be too damaged.
Grateful for dishwashing machines taking off a lot of the daily load 🙏
And so grateful for a flexible workplace so I don’t need to feel doom about starting tomorrow at a set time for set hours
