We, like all those who see their causes apparently failing, can get fanatical easily .
Sorry about that when it happens .
But while a downturn can get to us, our master looks after us and we learn to see and keep investing in the future " using That hideous strength " .
.A down turn is hard work .But low ebbs are where the vision of ultimate success is often where the outcome is most concrete and sustainable What also sustains us, is that we learn form experience that the picture we have of things going the right way is often just that -- an illusion .
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No so those whose god is their popularity, like the Pirate Fitzimmons . Turnbull and Phillip Adams and sadly many who hide in what was once our ABC .
The charm of the rebel starts to wear thin when the childishness of the games they play become obvious to others .
When media heavies confuse popularity with democracy for example
,When the guru knows everything
When someone like Flannery dares to open his mouth on every subject he wants and the ABC broadcast it :When Adams trots out every turnup as his own creation .
When our supposedly intellectual ABC don't question why Adam Bandt is controlling the agenda of Parliament .
When the same old same olds keep being trotted out to drum up support for their expensive columns of hot air .Q&A's total hypocrisy became real to many as it kept moving the targets each few minutes.
Real passions are driven by more than the bank and book accounts ......and last longer.
As in all ages where dilatants have the stage , most of us are too busy achieving things to let the shallow speculation of how things work take up out time . Read Valclav Smil
When the traitors ships start to sink , any illusion that the captain actually has a crew is soon shown if you note all the silence as the rats abandon the rotting hull .
The Creator of habitats doesn't live in a particular hull and encourages us to live the same : sail the high seas with gay abandon and a faith that says the world is round and the forces can work for good .
You may see the ship sinking but we know that you are only seeing a down turn in mere numbers and dramatic highlights. Do fanatics lose sight of what a highlight really looks like?- they certainly have lost sight of how to get there!
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JB peterson has been making the same point recently about the reactionaries ultimate weakness,After weeks of specializing in "minor points of order" ( mountains out of mole hills )they have to give up because their ammunition is all gone .They often have such little big picture wisdom that they don't know what a real mountain looks like !
Its Easter sunday today and most australians are interested in whether their team won a game this weekend .We can go to any assembly in any town in the world over the many seconds of this day and hear real people come together to sing and celebrate a man who was so short and exhausted he could not carry his own cross and died virtually alone . He did not die in vain unlike so many whose only contribution to life on earth is vanity.
He won a victory that will last for eternity .
This week we have the ABC chasing the Logies and about to go down for misrepresenting many things .
-The cancelling of Lehrmann,
-the campaign against a wolf in sheeps clothing referendum and
=the possible well intended demolition of one of the best democracies in the world ( AC GRAYLING 's recent books )
Aussies we love for their fun loving but NOT for their current innocence of EVIL .
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