Serpent

Stuck in flying death machine once again, with nowt to read except the Saturday Paper. On a Sunday.

Article one is a beauty. Ostensibly it’s an obituary on the still living Roger Neave, prompted by his concern for his legacy. Never heard of him before.

It’s an interesting read, both for the historical facts and the semi-delusional interpretations. 

Subject matter; the historical rise of neoliberalism in Australia and elsewhere. Greed has trumped all; sensing change in the seventies, the greedy got organised and took over the wheels of government.

Their primary goals were twofold; one, to open up trade and remove protectionism in order to increase overall consumerism, and, two, to create a trickle-up effect by transferring wealth into selective private hands through the public purse and control of policy.

My suspicion is that they don’t mind the idea of an underclass either.

And it worked a treat! But now the party’s over.

Climate change, technology driven unemployment, debt driven growth; these are all fundamental issues that by themselves will screw the current status quo.

But there’s a darker serpent lurking; the motivator of all this is fear-driven greed which has worked to undermine our sense of communal kin-ship.

I’m not saying it can’t be reversed. I’m just not seeing any signs that anyone’s trying to figure out how to do so.