Diodes Down

See headline below.

The trade minister of Australia, or the minister for trade as he prefers to be called, says: ‘I understand that a number of people feel alienated by globalisation.’

Not so mate.

There are a bunch of people that are pissed off that other people have more houses, cars and TVs than they do.

But it’d be quite accurate to say that not one of these people feels alienated. At best they feel that there are aliens amongst them.

Globalisation is also not a term they generally use. Nor do they have a proxy for it. Indeed, in a round about way, they blame all their woes on the gub’ment of the day.

I suspect the artful minister is craftily positing that ‘I understand that a number of people feel pissed off by by the aliens amongst us that are from other parts of the globe.’

It’s the trade in people that the C-grade gluttons misdiagnose as the root cause of their delinquency.

Noting the absence of functioning diodes between the rabble, there isn’t a politician in the country that feels compelled to correct them.

It’s so much easier and more fun to direct tax receipts away from them and towards more rewarding pigs.

I don’t think it’s the goods and services themselves that all these people (the A thru C grader gluttons) desire.

No, it’s the relative quantity of these compared to other people; this is what really matters.

The eternal mystery for me is why anyone bothers at all. It’s just looks so exhausting.

And completely bonkers…