State governments are good for nothing!

State government is good for something
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/16/2874864.htm?site=thedrum
From ABC online “The Drum”.
An article by ABC journo, Chris Uhlmann.
(Updated Mon Apr 19, 2010 12:15pm AEST)

My Response:

State government is good for nothing

As usual, I scribe my thoughts coming from the margins, with nary a well-informed opinion-base, perhaps the exact opposite to the likes of reporter Chris Uhlmann.

Ne'ertheless, for nothing better to do (than make a door for my tarpaulin 4x4 tent), I throw my firey arra's into the media-and-bloggosphere cauldron, to see what catches fire.


Being creatures of habit, Australians, and Humans generally, go with the “norms” or “traditions” we've grown up with. So breaking from the dated moulds we call government, parliament and politics etc, is never easy, even when their flaws are roaringly clear to us.

I'd reckon it's something to do with the business of winning-over enough punters to effect the changes most needed. One bloke might have a very clear understanding of what is wrong with the way things are, and they might be thoroughly educated on what society and the whole planet most needs, and they might have a bunch of friends and associates who agree.

But beyond the pub or club or college or gang bar, actually changing the underlying, fundamental system or systems of social or cultural functionality, is blocked with wall after wall.

Sometimes it's merely that there are not enough punters with the intellectual acumen to fully comprehend the steps and changes necessary, to take the change all the way, into their own habitual doings.

As often it's stubborn, “sherry-soaked” minds who refuse to be progressive, “for the greater good”.

Habits, retained because they serve the habiter enough to get them by. '“For the greater good” be damned!

Cynicism is rife here, in regard to most on-the-face-of-it “noble” attempts at cleaning up politics or the business world. For the cynic often rightly sees most “noble attempts” as false, or indeed the opposite of what the reformists say they want, such that they are in fact “self-serving”, under the banner of altruism.

But instituting the fundamental changes a nation needs, beyond the levels of what is known, so that the society is free of corruption, free of cynicism, and of superstition, demands the hardest and largest changes to the whole collective of individuals.

The changes we are all, in our own ways, looking for, in terms of Australia's political and economic future, require the most dramatic reforms seen, such that we are prepared by education, to all-of-us having the deepest knowledge and understanding of past and present and future situations, as well as knowing fully all the influences and resultant propensities inside our own minds, bodies, and, if you believe in it, Soul.

Most all of the arguments against dissolving the current federal political, three tier structure, see the natural shift to be toward the negative of centralised government out of Canberra.

For most of the debaters of that drift, the concept of decentralisation, where the whole nation is actually governed from the Local arena, is beyond them. Beyond 'something' of their mental capacities.

This, surely can only be because of the “traditions” they've had imbued into their minds.

Traditions have to have boundaries, beyond which the ideology or rules can have no “jurisdiction”. Otherwise, methinks, the traditions will begin to fall apart.

However, that has nothing to do with the perennial rectitude or veracity of any tradition.

Of the last century or so, many people of the “modern” world, came to believe that the Ancient Traditions of, say, our Aborigines' Culture, had passed their “use-by date” and that it was time the Aborigine “moved-on” and began to embrace the western versions of modernity and technology etc.

But, correct or not, I say NOT, this doesn't automatically mean that the modern traditions are better, or more correct, or more applicable to the species in general.

Today, this last few years, the whole planet has been accosted by the arguments for and against the ways we of the “modern world” carelessly over-consume resources, and thus pollute the biosphere, and whether this is the cause of the perceived “climate change” and “global warming”, species' extinction etc.

I refuse to believe that those who argue against the proposition that the “changes to climate are manmade”, are anywhere near to being of their own mind.

Someone has them by the short-and-curlies, either through bribes to say what they say, or by the dark business of religious witchcraft, blackmail, and fear.

In my refusal there, I counter by arguing that it is crystal-clear that we in our modern habits, are fucking-up BAD.

So, it follows that, if I'm right, the “modern” traditions are being exposed as being bad traditions, ones which are perhaps more “passed their 'use-by date'” than the old traditions of the Aussie Aborigine, or of pre-invasion China, or India, or Africa, or America.

The '“traditions” they've had imbued into their minds' I put it, are of how they/we are taught to see things, of how they/we are taught to contemplate things. So traditions are not only of what can be written into a nation's, a religions' or a persons' “constitution”, but the word also applies to how our mentations are built to react, to respond and to perceive whatever we concentrate on.

Thus, most all of the arguments for and against the dissolution of the middle-tier state governments in Australia are mere semi-automatic (semi-autonomic) reactions to how we've been taught to perceive and react to the topic(s).

Trying to get consensus across the table and across the continent, across all the developed “cultures” here, AND across the oceans to the political and economic 'masters' in Britain and Switzerlanenenen etc, over an Australia administered by elected representatives from perhaps 500 LOCAL COUNCILS, newly geo-biospherically laid-out autonomous “mini-states” or enlarged Local Councils, all based-upon, and financed in largest-part by Land Tax, is what Australians are best advised to aim for.

But nothing near this will ever be possible while we cannot overcome our so-called “traditional” ways of thinking and seeing things as they are, as they will, and, as they might, in the best possible, corruption-free scenario, actually BE.

No amount of addresses by any amount of state premiers, university professors, economists, media moguls, prime ministers, presidents or kings at any “press club”, nor even at any “State of the Nation” address, will give us the directions, the instructions, the details and tutorials every one of us needs, to enable our minds to properly, correctly and fully embrace the Reforms and the Path to the Correct Reforms Australia needs, and needs very soon.

There will always be a case for the states existence, even while that very error of over-government irretrievably drags the whole of us down to political, economic, social and cultural Hell.


Few see the utterly evil ramifications of having each of us sent off to win our own financial security.

Many an intelligent journalist/reporter has drunk themselves to oblivion nightly, and toward the end of their life, because they DID see the fundamental evils of our “free-market” economic and social system.

Such a system makes us think, believe, say and write ANYTHING to secure our mortal coils under a roof each night.

So, nice title/headline Chris Uhlmann, but I'm sorry sport, “State government is good for nothing”, if we are to interpret the word “good” correctly?

Sleep on that, John Brumby, then wake-up and orchestrate your own shindig's dissolution.

London be damned! Rome be damned!

The IMF is dead!

LONG LIVE THE AUSTRALIAN REPUBLIC!

Or..., as I've been dreaming-it-up of the last few years..

LONG LIVE ULURUBA!

And..., on this ANZAC Day 2010, "Lest We Forget"

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