White Pockets

This is worth recording … in describing the fall of Tony Abbott one authority has penned this.

“The “normality” which has been lost in Australia and other western democracies is the unquestioned social and political primacy of white men.

Recent decades have seen new kinds of political claims emerge, and a plurality of values, cultures and lifestyles. The rules of the game have, after long struggles, shifted.

Rather than respond to this with accommodation, negotiation and hospitality, much of the right have elected to fight a prolonged culture war that demands the return of white, male, heterosexual authority.”

This rings true for me.

There’s another segment of society that, rather than fight the changes described here, have decided to insulate themselves by crowding into privileged white-bread enclaves.

My daughter’s school at Clovelly in Sydney’s east is one such enclave. I despise them for their dishonesty and cowardice.

And then there’s another segment that I belong to that despairs at the political correctness that has accompanied the rise of our plural society.

I have to admit that it is possible that such a diverse society can only exist in a tightly engineered and rule-driven structure.

That is, it’s possibly the price we had to pay in order to accommodate and accept the diversity of race, religion and cultures that we have today.

I might have to let go of this residual desire of things past as well. By the time this thought process is done, I’m telling you I’ll be reduced to numbness.

That’s no point raging against the machine since the evidence is that the machine is there to protect us against many of the past travesties that litter the history of humanity.

This position is well supported by this quote from Bertrand Russell;

“People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.“