We all have reason to be angry

I feel for Stan Grant (resigning from ABC) and Noel Pearson (because racism and isolation is on the  increase) , but they, like our post modern culture are trapped by their now totally inadequate attitudes to anger hatred ,repentance and forgiveness .They are overreacting to a real threat, but not really understanding the threat 

Mistargeting and overstating 
The monarchy and Christianity are not inherent threats to honoring diversity, but the very reason we have for centuries honored it.  
 It's how we deal with anger that's changed. 
The post modernists have made anger a sin, when it is not. This is as Os Guiness said, the West going East and losing itself in unproductive shaming, guilt and unforgiveness that perpetuates the pain and the adrenaline suppression ( not good) 

Most of us were taught that God gets angry, and that we should deal with anger before the sun goes down each day. Believers and their families ( incl children) could get hot under the collar and survive . They lived the wonderful truth that it was ok to be angry every day , but to deal with it in a positive  way .This limits, like nor-adrenaline, the damage that could now kill us.
 Yes, adrenaline is powder keg stuff, but the trick is not to fear it but to use its naturally good power to  drive honest confrontation and reconciliation. The modern overreaction to it in the form of avoidance prevents the beauty of both pointed confrontation and reconciliation.
The psyche's are telling us that the avoidance of anger's  proper expression is driving the current epidemic of depression.
By making it a sin, the reactionaries and others make the person who SHOWS anger now feel very bad , ashamed and accused of shaming and subject to gas lighting .  All unworkable intransigence where initiators and recievers  get nowhere and just feel bad . " The East No Exit " is one of Os Guiness's books . 

In rejecting their Christian heritage,  the ABC have adopted from the vacuum of the vault of pure reaction , some other old ideas that do not work.
The only way to make things work , for our children's sake,  s to admit we have given into unforgiveness, shaming and not accepting that the many injustices done to us ( or done to or by our forebears )  are less important  that injustices done to people right now 

That our culture is desperately digging a deep a hole and dying of gas poisoning is contraindicated by an unhealthy focus on the past - other people's pasts. 

Stan is suddenly doing OK

 I may be wrong, but , I was pleasantly surprised that a consensus came forth from this last weeks Q&A ( about time )
The consensus  I saw was
That "The Voice" was a hurriedly drawn together device that could not work,"  
There was a bit of humility in the group too,which makes a change from the strident know all's whom the ABC ring up regularly to provide putdowns and shut ups  ( politely of course . we are nice middle class people here) .        

How can Ita justify their predictable guest lists ? Talk about a short list that's growing shorter.  

What a serious piece of hypocrisy the country is entertaining about "really listening " when the advocates don't have enough wisdom to understand how it works ,
The legacy of our ABC will be ( with Robin Williams and Geraldine Doogue still at the helm for example)   a lot of talk but no experience and wisdom to make its wild and wooly speculations stick . Many of us live by NOT listening to its distracted and highly predictable discourses.

These people  who think societal change is easy and good , best read Cromwell by Antonia Frazer  where she documents the incredible miracle of how Parliaments ,as we know them, began , 

The Labor party will go down in history as the party who wrenched to power of the people of Australia by holding onto its precious gerrymander of the city over the country ( using its own blind love of numbers and their stairway to heaven) . 
To stop the careless dreaming read Thomas More and  Sitch on  deeply etched idiocy of "Utopia"'s , 

And with only a few pages read, such people might realize how easily we could lose this great but expensive time absorbing gift -- eg by imposing a whole lot of more meetings b meetings PAID for by our desperately much poorer children. 

In many ways ,this new concept of "a voice" is a regurgitation of an old idea that we abandoned 400 years ago : the one that says "louder and more " as if that works by rote or in history ( the Big man in Africa for eg ) It doesn't work! 
.And neither does singling out the reality that aboriginal culture can teach us a lot about environment provide a big enough reason to push English science and other cultural wisdom aside; singular focus stupidity,

The ultimate and productive aim of hearing all voices in order and counterorder is to gain TRUE consensus ( not this forced nonsense now promoted even on ABC) .  Making the process longer and giving one group the final say ,is like going back to bless Patriarchy - which none of us want. 

 The system of democracy that has worked for the West for all those centuries is the system which gives still small voices a go in order . It is based on faith, not that God blesses majorities ,but that God blesses those who truly listen; , in the long order of parliament. 

Any fool can see that the very concept of equality is ALSO NOW under threat because , without the fatherhood of God there is no brotherhood of man ( Bob Hawke )  The worshipers of mere technological fix ( Ellul) will throw out what doesn't work---- when will the ABC run a program on our young people and what they believe ? It certainly isn't the stale sentimentality of the post moderns.