[csaa-forum] shutting the stable door

[Dr Laurie DUGGAN]

Gil's note and Graeme's piece in today's Australian are pretty much on the money. In fact todays HES is pretty weird seeing as how it prints an edited chapter from 'Us & Them' as well as Graeme's piece. All this from the major source of 'new class' political partisanship! I feel trapped at the moment, in the middle of 'Us & Them' and after reading David Carter's 'The Ideas Market' collection (good books). When I went to see a movie on the weekend ('Garden State': don't bother) I walked out feeling like a demographic. This was 'art house' as purveyed by Fox/Newscorp. A little bit, but not too kinky (just like me. Or not). I felt like some satellite hovering overhead was beaming messages at me to go and have a latte somewhere. And meanwhile, elsewhere, in another galaxy, Andrew Bolt and the crew were continuing their endless fight against 'political correctness'. Hegemony? What me worry!

Laurie