Not much of a conversation

For a set of reasons that are not worth going into, I am sent a monthly update of the readership of articles in The Conversation by authors affiliated with the UTS.

The current top list is exhibited below.

The Conversation is an online popular newspaper with free contributions, but only from qualified academics. It’s readership is skewed towards the educated and the concerned.

This popular list of articles highlights the growing divide between those living off government funded roles (eg academics) and business types.

It’s all just one big whinge about the business sector and its undue influence on everything else, including the political sector.

Over the last two or so decades the business community (and their direct dependants) have realised that they have the money and the power, and have used it.

For what?

To get more money and power of course!

My own personal view is that, in Australia, this is just one big first-world problem.

Even the worst-off have quite easy access to the means to be moderately secure.

What is needed is counseling; if people could just let go of their angst and focus on their own good fortune rather than the avarice of others, they’d be so much better off.

But I can’t help feeling that there is some sort of sublimation going on here.

All of them, both the conspiracy theorists and the conspiracy plotters, are avoiding the issue of the slavery of their own minds, the gluttony of consumption, which they have voluntary bought into.

What better way to do so than to have an in-built enemy?

It’s a new-age post-capitalism class war, disguising the enemy within that can’t be faced.

I don’t expect it to go away so, in future, I am choosing to ignore it.