Ho hum predictably dumb

 Tis what happens when an institution feeds its own myths of self-importance. - and worse, has the self-righteous religious gall to tell us and the Australian people it provides "independent news". 
Thinking people are switching off in droves--- even if they don't see an alternative they smelt the reactionary rats ruining things like Q and A ---which answers no questions and questions only answers which don't suit its agenda. Tony Jones and his stacked pack who when things got tight was ' moving  everything on " 


Let me start with fact-checking and the stupid blinkered idea that it is.
Two generations earlier,  people who really thought things through ( like Carlyle who convinced Marx and Nietzsche that human nature was deeply blinded ) These diverse three believed in evil ; that now  unseen poison that eats its way quietly and unspoken through the sacred floors of the ABC ediface.
These old 3 ,( and other like Hagel )at least  recognized the vast deep hole that dilitants and pedants live in .
Not our ABC ,They think heaven lies at the end of a short piece of their own  reason ; their conclusions of their facts they claim as conclusive. I used to only listen to the  ABC. But even Radio National don't listen to practical scientists , prefering the Club mode of speculating on everything.

Paul Barry smiles as he makes Mediawatch his own platform for pure pedantry.
Hanging by threads spun in their own name and playing only their own game.  The day of judgment for such indolent arrogance is coming . 
Real scientists have always said no to such half-witted and half-baked stuff .; goes nowhere does nothing but damage;  damn lies and statistic's  that needs the repair the ABC never confess to  . 

I need say no more. 
ABC mediawatch have a good time playing pedant with the  contents of SKYNEWS but miss the big picture that SKYNEWS actually listens to people;  SKY guests who aren't  welded on limpets to the reactionary high seas ship of the go no where , lost at sea cynicism , of what was once our ABC. A generation who owe so much and see so little of their lostness and inertia about real evil .  

Making the news

ABC news services have lost their way in a big way. It's most evident when there is an unknown driver or unpredictable scenario on the horizon.  ABCTV have morphed into something like the commercial media, who dramatize and speculate to the point of being irrelevant - something none of them can afford to do  in this day of the internet age which may make them irrelevant .
The fanaticism within the ABC is quite predictable 

The easiest way to help fix this dilemma/ temptation of speculation is, with natural disasters (at least )is to STOP being smart shiny arses and quoting those sorts, Flannery and all the other hangers-on in all these agencies of inexperience and wild screen sheeting.   
The real risk assessors are not heard and because the disease of panic has been cultivated for decades in the grand tour of the wannabes, we have emergency management leaders who can't be trusted - guess who put them there -- wannabes .  
Example 
 Flooding on east coast this week First week of March 2022 
ABC reporters can't help but mention their own BIG numbers for rainfall amounts and river heights but can't do it without mentioning their own culture club fearmongering - those sacred chants about "climate change", 

These extreme floods have nothing to do with climate change .
These extreme floods have everything to do with the very unusual cocontentation of very moist air being pushed up an incline at just the right speed to cause it to rain for hours on end . This phenomenon is not new but it is quite rare and predictable - which is what should be said so the fearmongering doesn't get out of hand. 






 There is a fine line between reporting what you see and reporting what you think you see. Between reporting the facts, knowing which facts  This post is just to remind those who fund this self-indulgent and largely sub scientific organization that it has lost its way -- in so many ways, Our forefathers were clear about the calling, but the club has modified it into an image that suits the owners own image. 

Take the news generally 
It s fine to ask why but it's far more important to make sure you report what has happened. Reporting what has happened takes time and its hard work that is not nearly as much as fun as speculating HOW it happened.

HOW questions may be part of the news story  but reporters must show more discipline in adding their own limited vision,
If they have a how question - there must be time for FULL or complete explanation and its often that the time is not available , Poor choice short  term gain long term pain  for the ABC and its credibility . 

The ABC knows the first bit about reporting, of course, but the populace is aching for explanations and the ABC now wanna be popular ) oh dear  .
The self-righteousness that seems to attach itself to the flawless ABC is encouraged by a sound desire to be scientific ( plus a few hidden not so sound desires )- to find the explanation.
Its extremely tempting, as we all know, and I know now as an eco geomorph , to punch in " what i know " ---  unless called for ( that great idea in public service ) is wrong and takes away from the elements of our culture that we don't want canceled -- but we are cancelling because we have adopted some  corroding causes like " confusion , cynicism and a desire to be first" .   And like little children that we are if I can't be first , no one can have it , 

The serious implications for our children 
Instead of building confidence in competent science, the smart cynicism of the ancients is driving our children into a new culture ( which is really partly our own doing ):  cancel culture .
Where the romance of nothing is better than the weight of fact checking overload  the incompetent bookkeepers at the ABC insist on ---  their level. 

Straining out gnats and swallowing camels

Q and A March 4th    An unexpectedly good and robust chat last night 

What happened?
Didn't seem to all go to plan.
Looked  to me like the Rabbi was helicoptered in - unexpectedly 

If they had the God sent Rabbi on any longer, he would have reminded us all that God subverts the plans of the proud and laughs at them,    as many wonderfully did last night .
As it is , The Rabbi was on just long enough to save Molan from being crucified .

ABCTV need to tip the balance  away from wannabes to the outsiders - those practical ( not always professionals like myself ) people they keep alienating by running the balance in favor of idealists and PC merchants - those who strain out gnats and swallow camels .

Arrogance and Ignorance

Q and A --the ABC's  hypocritical flagship - answering their own questions with their own answers


Q and A pretends to be interested in answering questions . Bit of a giveaway really , They put mainly political wannabes on their panels and wonder why they convince noone . Perhaps its just about answering their own questions with their own answers  Trumps of this world keep appearing

And people who know what they are talking about and who might correct the agencies agenda get ostracised   Jordan Peterson last night
They tried to silence him by only allowing short jabs .

Noone wins when the petty pedants are in charge and allow one minute per stab like on #QandA last night.

 "My correlations make sense to me" http://misplacedconcreteness.blogspot.com Sorry mate - its not what you can see that trips you up - but what you can't!

To finish the day with the unfinished blood sports of ideas is to leave everyone bleeding.

Lets avoid doing that to each other. More humility about what we don't know (and how to fix it)

There is no confrontation with the truth on this program ( unless it manages to squeeze out the cracks ) Time everyone accepted that its not really trying to do what it says its doing .

Surely not us ?

Being objective about yourself and your culture is not something any of us do very well .

This is especially true when soemone pays YOU to be good and you don't admit to your faults.
This is especailly true when you are overly comfortabale  and concentrating on how good you are.

- also a risk with us all .

But we are not in positions of incredible responsibility. 
And we are not like Bolt,  Dean and others --showing that ABC is clearly limiting the reporting of what's happening in our country.
ABC predictable war mongering and worry watching is not worth watching- esp if you are a real economist or scientist.- or if you want to learn something ; not just hear progressive( or popular )predjudices each day.

The ABC has been in denial of its overly comfortable way of looking at things for too long

ABC MUST be more ruthless about its faults
- pretending to do science when it doesn't employ or report many practical scientists
- when its guests are repeating  stories we have heard before
-when those in authority in the ABC  ignore the cost of ignorance  and arrogance on our children and the dumbing down of debate and proper professional developmet in areas like conservation esp




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Privatize the ABC ? You have got be joking !

We are so badly educated in this country that neither left nor right knows why it would be wrong to privatize the ABC .
All parties have failed to recognize their addiction to the disease of the century ( Ellul , Whitehead, Huxley) - there proneness to technological fix .

One year we will have business knows best  the next we will have "nature knows best "and Labor will , while the taxes last , pretend that governments do no evil . Note the last one is MOST dangerous as the economy increasingly relies on tax revenue and government funded employment , its very immature , and the lies are deeper .


My post elsewhere .  Don't forget to sing my song at the end.


The ABC, and other media under threat, should be ( and are ) worried because we are not reading the old guard like we used to .We are sourcing things like Newsweekly ,the Spectator, The Outsiders AND the Internet. Its not enough i know - all the more reason to make ABC MORE reliable . 

Change is good-- many ABC limpets may not believe their own "nature knows best " rhetoric but when it comes to them and now, BUT change is necessary to survive. "The Guardian" IMO is no longer guarding - reacting maybe ? 
Probably nothing has done more to make our children overly skeptical than the closet club of paid public servants.Training but not testing in the best way?  Exposure to real professionals -not stars is sorely needed    TV dramas often lack the depth that comes fro exposure/real AUTHORSHIP 

There has never been a better time for outsiders to help in the process of reform . Chestertons /Churchills' great prophetic call to their /our careless friends should be heeded . Corporations can be expected to perform better than mere business models of everything--- . no better point to pay out those unthinking conservatives who think competition knows best .Who dumby proclaim the hell of privatization of wealth 

THose of us who love the independance idea MUST be prepared to say WHERE and WHY .Surely we don't believe the crap that progress is at the end of some self centred self directed review or WORST OF ALL - some gene driven path. 
Relying on Senate hearings is one of Fatima's weak points because philosophy of ( say practical physical science in my case) is all up the big picture thinking creek... and only a few of our puppets get it yet 
We ALL used to believe in precision in decision. Even those who feel their way around are not feeling good -so change is in the air .http://cuttingedgecare.blogspot.com
If you don't see my point,take the ABC's preaching schedules over many years ; alternative lifestyle , health care fixes and water , weather and plastic bag worries and multiply what you now know into yet to be discovered cul de sacs galore . We need real world people reporting ( cf mere dreamers and tech worshipers ) more than ever . There are real risks about ( my work) and addressing them is what will keep the future tied to the ground. Publish a list of good ABC programs.
If you love something you don't just leave it as it is; you want the best for it .you may have to yell or put your response into words .but is silence back the source complicity IYO ? 
. Happy writing and reforming 

This risk  is so bad it should be on ABC church for mention in sermons ....

.. choruses too

SONG for the service  

"We love our ABC ....... tis just thing for me "
for reminding us of true worship   Independence Honesty Virtue

We love our ABC
for reminding us of our proper place  Imageo Deo   


We hate it when they deny it and make self deprecation , denial projection libel slander and sneer their "imageo dopey"

We love our ABC

when confession comes first

Misleading advertising at the ABC -- the huge costs to the People of Australia

Lost causes due the club mentality --E Burke knew that good intentions can lead to greatest evil . Pity the producers at ABCTV , who supposedly studied literature , don't.
Heres a brief list

Here is a brief list .
This is an incomplete list - drawn together in a huury because the reform of the ABC to provide sound reporting should be a priority at the next election ( this note June 2018)

The arty farty lot at ABCTV are prone to pick up incomplete arguments and with the help of the herd drive themselves down a cul de sac.    For a psyches  view of the depth of this disease look up JB Peterson.
The criminal act is not to provide misinformation ( some reporters do that ) the criminal act is not to seek to redress it by reporting stuff we have been sending the ABC for decades .


Raising questions would be Ok, but reigning of us with unreasonable imperatives has been in part,  the ABC's legacy . They turn damage into degradation,  not knowing the différence and not caring to ask US about degrees of resilience.   Thats incompetence in reporting 


1. The creation of water. As a result of the overreliance on Tim Flannery and friends, most States of Australia built desalination  plants that don't now don't do  anything .
2. Carbon Tax . The real cost of energy has gone up considerably over the last few years as a result of distortion forced on the people by the panic merchants and those who would drive us away from burning coal .
3. Damage to the Great Barrier reef .   Richard di Natalie is prepared to sacrifice his reputation on his worry t that OUR actions are damaging the reef . If its not that the water is getting hotter its pollution  from Queensland land - or something else  . As with all the other lost causes ABCTV does its weekly ritual of providing a story that supports the cause .a fact sheet that fits ;  even though as we who have studied these things know,   reefs need fertilization. We and Darwin know a little bit about  how much , they have no idea
3. Incontrovertible evidence that Veganism will save the planet .eg  Julia Beard's panel  on Thedrum--competent practical  science people as usual were not present .
  As with the the earlier causes,  the ABC lists reports week after week which support the idea that we are raping cows for milk and so on . The end result of this movement has yet to be seen.

 a brief response here...     

Headship - another distracted hunt for causes ?

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE and what we can do about it    ABCTV July 2017

I never like arguments that use exceptions to try to break the rule - this is the sort of time wasting sub science nonsense we often get from the naysayers and cynics all around us and that  the ABC specialize in . In these matters they often talk science but don't do science 

While I am all for reviews of what causes DV I am against much hunting down in exceptional causes . So I am cynical of what single Julia Baird  is doing here- was her dad in charge of the house for example?  Lets be practical and political( how the disease affects MOST people)  here too

I think most people and reasonably successful  families ( I can't claim perfection ) support overall the idea of headship in families ( don't be too shocked )

Time for a reassessment people . A single woman running a simple old line against headship that hasn't provided a working alternative .Cummon tell me!
 Most thinking Muslim women have no problem with headship. Western Women are converting to be under headship. Reality therapy required? Real causes analysis required .

While you lovely strong women are rightly afraid of the male pulling this trick  when it suits him , do you want the little boy to go absent on you ? Is there a better way to keep order in the house ? ( I think its possible that headship arguments can and have gone to our XY heads  so I don't claim its perfect - just the most reasonable and workable arrangement on the surface.)

It's not a perfect choice,  but is it the better of the options available?  Would you XX's prefer if  Paul said "husbands obey your wives"  or alternatively said "you must in submission to each other" ( the big picture command that's clearly dominant in Paul's writings about marriage ) decide each dispute on its merits. Really ? 

W e must ,unlike what Julia has done by focusing on exceptions,   remember Paul himself was dealing with exceptions and difficulties when he reminded them of the bottom line . We must see every problem in its context and stop trying to solve every one by rule alone  -DV is very widespread and one main  key driver to its growth is IMO poor anger management.  see other links .

Context for the command : These were strong wonderful women who had come to see that they had unmet leadership ambitions in their relationships with men and their world. Paul says to my mind . The rule is not perfect but it works to have one who thinks and appears to be in charge . Use your brains ( you now know this )  in relationships.  Its not all about brute power ( Romans 12) Use your renewed minds to get things done.

Think more broadly for your own safety . With this shallow One cause and One effect logic about one correlation there is a risk you will ignore other good reasons for the rule .

Take the critical questions of order and objectivity  Take the way we rune
meetings . We appoint a head . by having a head doesn't neccesarily mean he /she rules.
For your own safety dont play pedant here .

Why would not good order try to not bring some objectivity from outside when it on his mind and not yours ?( or vice versa you tell him cause " he thinks he;s responsible"

the rule context is about order and getting somewhere more  easily before the day ends as  neither party are perfect in understanding or appreciation. Two minds are better than one and this is proven way to encourage respect and efficiency in listening and decisionmaking . 

If you have to have a choice ( I think this is critical) is it better in your experience if the boy thinks he is in charge?

Is he better present and heard than absent because in  a fair fight (eg  when their are no children) we males all know who usually wins.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE and what we can do about itI too am concerned about the growing incidence of domestic violence in families but this chasing after exceptions to find causes is going to distracting and unproductive . The evidence that church teaching is not helping is against the evidence.At least when they go to church and hear peoples situation is not so easily " covered up" ( that i unconvincing suggestion from left field) When did you last seek to intervene in someones elses domestic tensions? Maybe you talked about them but just because you are leader does it mean you " covered the issues up".


A better and more concise summary of the context of male abuse of the privelege was given here .https://www.facebook.com/NewsWeekly.NCC/

There is obviously a lot more to talk about  about the paradoxes in marriage and familiy , Drivers and deliberations  Feedback welcome 


As a highly reactionary cynical and sub scientific family the ABC keep making basic context mistakes when seeking to promote change as the source of all that is good . ( note most thinking Muslim women have no problem with headship  so is the ABC's sense of  consensus really highlighting increasing confusion in their ranks about what works .Maybe the reactionaries have thrown something good out with the bathwater 
While we are a long way from convincing the fearful women in our community who have grown up with ABC fear that headship can be good . Julia Baird's long winded wanderings on when it can be bad highlight how much lack of focus on real problems the ABC has.  

Towards a more realistic view of politics- Go girls

Annabelle Crabbe's view of politicians comes as close as any I know to one of realism ."They are mad"  she rightly says to Julia in their most welcome frame of "home" visits.
If we too are not to go mad , we need some relief from their  madness - but how , when most of the ABC take them so seriously ?  
I can see both of them running the old "coming out show" - feisty is good if it brings out better , feisty is at least a way of upsetting the PC ,  get beyond the crap. To be practical NOT political 

Q and A is so symbolic of this PC stupidity - why would  we get answers from polys ?
The reality is that as our forefathers knew, nothing is as it seems on the surface. If you are not to drown in the shit ,you need a way to stay on top of it,  To know where to find a good story - and avoid  the drowning cynicism of those who don't sort out the evil elements. The faith that the left or the right really know what they are doing is a false faith !
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 Its taken a while for ABC to realize that Australian story, Back roads  One 2 one and these Home visit frames should have been used for years to give viewers  a solid view away from the pathetic simplicity of the political world .
The country is a different culture and little has been done to break through and understand it - Does anyone really want to know that there are people out there who are happy living with less and living with the disciplines of real risk management.
The same is true of the important subcultures of church, business, health and real planning and environment care. The very real drama and resolution that's out there has been largely ignored.

If ABC employed more people who were actually interested in people ( like those 2) the deeper drama of conflicts in the above area we would have much more that is worthwatching  on TV
The ABC could have had by now the bones for good drama based on real contests ; a much needed real life view that would have outclassed and out sold the equally out of touch  Crawford house productions .
 Great that the ABC has uncovered a few like M&S , Utopia , The Slap , Frontline ,

Go Girls

You would think the men on Q&A last night were on drugs. Soft drugs ?Is it  only when men are weak that women have to take over ?? The women on the show were running around the  men with intellectual rigor and passion to inspire even the most tardy of male church members.
Unbelievably the program was supposed to be about strong men (Trump),
Sadly  it was Premier Andrews and his young mate from the USA who tiresomely trotted out the very bland repeats of political correctness that have so annoyed the doing people of the US . Yes we will get more Trumps here because we have such dumb soft and PC leaders here . Emperors wearing more taxes ( and court martials for deniers) as clothes!

The very unworthy spokesman for the ultimate salvation of the earth could not even say Kirabati let alone recognise it as a non-starter in his very careless and sus list of terrors from not closing down all a carbon use and putting climate deniers in jail .
If arrogant progressives ( who try to tell US scientists what’s true!) want more credibility they better listen to scientists,  not try and quote the king hit makers in the collection that they choose ( but strangely don’t appear on their stage)
The debate was supposed to be about whether we could get Trump type characters here .
Well One thing is certain ---from tonight’s entertainment package -- we have the losing side in those two men standing before us . Trump is not admired for much, but at least he is no puppet!

The sentimentalist Andrews talks about evil and wicked without having any idea of how to deal with such things. He is not even aware that his government in their wisdom are still desperately  trying to play God and parent with the people , when few of his ministers would be trusted with anyone’s children.
Such is that pacts reactive incompetence that,  in their never ending chase to stop one car from killing people , they manage to allow another to kill more. ( Streets of Melbourne a few weeks ago)

They have excelled themselves in creating emergency management empires like their own . Wisdom about prevention, fires , flood  landslides and other disasters they do not have and have not had time for . As always,  the ultimate reactionaries .
Andrews  worry brigade,  in their attempts to play God have made water and forced the public to pay for their dumb dreams of a renewable led solar pact .  In failing to plan for base load like SA Daniel is complicit in forcing the closure of one of Victories biggest export income sources and will be remembered for nothing but fine words and playing puppet to others
And where have the eager ABC reporters been when all these scoops were emerging ? Its no wonder the audience get no/half truth while Tony moves on anyone who might hijack the PC – not truth but popularity is the dream of many leading in that church.
Who in those hallowed halls has been watching while sound and well trained professionals leave the public service for the better paying but  less responsible world of the drip feed .

And what will redeem the ABC form being totally complicit in letting the sentimentalists and worry warriors take over in Victoria and Australia ? so much for a clever country ABC

Well a return to reporting would help and hearing those two women rebut the shallow sentimental stuff from the men was just enough to make any hardy anti-feminist cheer. Go girls! 

Objectionable ABC - Marks Scotts legacy

Mark Scott will leave the ABCTV with what ?

1. A lot of reporters whose snide and snickering stuff is evident to those outside, but not to those inside the hive . Not all reporters thankfully;   A few  can have fun with images without trying to hang them permanently on particular people.  You know who you are,
2. A lot of inexperienced ( real life)( self referencing bunch of same same old script writers who with Film Vic etc are funding their own limited world views and experiences ,( makes them awfully dull and predictable - eg on radicalization and how it happens )
   
    Just quietly destroying the opportunity for really creative script writers and techs to give all our good actors a place in history .    
3. Do some training or get some disciplined reporters esp on your news presented friendly
   -Richard Davies this morning used the expression "ridiculous comment ": this morning in his long interview with a reporter reporting on a report about a report about some hard done by lot . The tears weren't flowing , but the victim sympathy stuff was showing and almost glowing  , The fact that our ABC spent several minutes trying to read the entrails of a captured cat was not the worst piece of incompetence in the piece . As if we don't know that we are to stand up and clap whenever some sex group is  found to be hard done back . Get real-- playing up to " poor victim "is for those lost in the  toxic cult of sentimentality.
   
4. Stay distant and objective Get some training or get some experienced older reporters to lead , N ews delivered friendly is dangerous because you can show your preference s so easily  .More  Kerry O Brien and avoid controversial guests on the couch - you ain't that good that you can nail them.
   I can just see you with Trump on the couch. You are not that good , Yes you ask dumb questions . If you thought about it you would know that you get smart answers back . they win we lose . 
5. Incompetence in interviewing . There are no dumb question just as Richard Davies has no right to label any comments as "ridiculous" = tacit support for the cause  . If someone says something that doesn't make sense, respond with a correction or a question or nothing ( let the author speak and shut up yourself )  .No second hand diversions however popular you think they may be.   Some of your reporters do not take their  responsibilities seriously ( If you want to deal with controversial news , direct it elsewhere.  The Project are ahead of you on that because they cover  more with less and link into internet more effectively ) 
6. The age and cynicism of your leadership is showing . Try to leave it at home ; that way your leadership stays relaxed ( if innocuous about controversial news )  Wars on everything and constant cynicism  we need like a vacation in hell . 
7. By trying  to be popular , you are alienating thinking people and becoming irrelevant- we get our news elsewhere , 
8. Content is skewed and predictable -------replace the offending producers!  Its been same for years esp on weekends
   -- telling us someone is going to trial is NOT news nor should it be if its the same case that was on last week
   -- We are constantly hearing about so called sex crimes by same old same old significant others , This is not " Its not me , its them "show - clearly you don't know the wise audience question on this "takes one to know one?  "Gotcha 
9.  If I hear another sad story about a member of the Christian church going wrong I'll switch off permanently ( i am switching off a lot )There are lots of great consistent people in there and they are sick of the bleating bellowing and preaching from the abc pulpit - esp at our expense Not much talk of the Islamist school who spent money really badly recently
    
10. Deterministic rationalists who love science but don't know it and its limits -  employ experienced scientists who know the edges ; And run your own church like all other people have to  
11. Book club is symbolic - great idea but same leaders for eons and you have your own recipe for ho hum skew and predictability - we know you try to be innovative. but you set the scene SOSO
12.  All comes down to an era of eating up the good capital of the organisations once much higher reputation and a  drift of the thinking audience to other sources like net and dare i say it news done differently.     
13. Producers must be accountable for WHO they put on
    
    
    eg  JOYCE 
    
    Take the way they treat Politicians they don't like People like Chris Uhlmann fill up their intros with innuendo and unacceptable imagery, but not all do Barnaby Joyces sometimes brilliant but sometimes wacky analogies need no extras
    Time has come for ABC management to grow up , rid itself of wasps, sentimentalists, reactionaries. and Stop warring against everything from the past , Let those like Einstein, who see one hundred years ahead of time , have a voice.
    Voice s , not of speculation but competence and experience  Unlike the reporters who are more interested in the ethereal doctrines of " how it will go down, " Barnaby is a straight shooter who we trust will take advice which puts him in the top ten . ABC is only getting better for the dead end Machiavellians and their strange end games Thank and Praise God , Barnabys not a Trump - a trumped up parrot ; that popular person who often leads the sheep in any culture. Barnaby's desperately needed to provide some balance and he will not be afraid to speak up even when its not popular - who else does that ? you didn't like his comments about where Labor is at the moment - we did !
    The focus of the media on the peculiar bits is desperate, pathetic and wrong . The explanation of the 8th commandment says in relation to talking about others in public (witness)- put the best construction on everything.if anyone should be hung out to dry its the reporters and their constant slurring and snide . The reality is the holy communion inside love to think they care about the environment but they have yet to show ( in programming punch-- Landline is NOT enough- its written to put positive spin on everything )they respect those who do .

Tony just doesn't get it . The disease is widespread at the ABC

Professor John Passmore, in a series of Boyer lectures in the 1980's pointed out something the dumbing down class at the ABC still don't get . "Politicians don't really know the answers to complex problems but they are afraid to admit it".   .
The ABC not only don't know the answers or the reason asking "why"is no guarantee of any decent A's  but they don't often even know who to ask .   Australian story is an exception . The excellent report on 7:30 re sports and physical  science ambitions last night exceptional also .-- outside authors featured.

The Islamic chaplain knew it was complex but no
one else took the brief- answers have to be short and sweet at the ABC . Bandt was at home with that -- "more money from government will fix everything and ......by they way - ban chaplains - they propagate ideas "( not his ideas on what to say to young people -- noticably ABSENT  . Mark Scott lets the stupid "moving on" excuse cover for complete incompetence and carelessness year after year .titillation amidst desperation--  that's our ABC.

Weeks after some rare good QandA  Tony Jones is back to his very old  bad old habit of asking dumb old "How2 " questions of politicians and the politically correct .( es not the only one to play circle games with that lead in )  There isn't a poorer class of "how to do things" in the country, He's wasted years talking to polys about science and practice - no wonder its circle and circus time at the Colosseum after a weekend of real competition on the field
The game is not about problem solving , its about entertainment- poking and prodding with pain as currency..  ABCchurch

The first person in the audience  asks a great question about "whether there is anything in the teachings of Islam  that justifies violence " . The idea is on every Australians lips,  but not on the ABC's - were too nice ere .
Hate to offend anyone -- that would be to sin badly in their church

The question was never answered and noone dared ask it again or challenge the answer given about peace .
Peace  and peace loving can be really dangerous - a surface thing.  There is no peace in anyone's household unless you all speak the truth . Peace at subservience price is what is offered under ISIS .

Jesus set the scene for the West by saying clearly --"he did not come to bring peace,  but a sword" .Truth must triumph in a comfort zone science rules world.
If you are going to let a simple virtue run riot  like peace or equality you are going to end up with people rnnning everywhere with swords and everyone else shit scared to say - hang in this is too simple and its not working   The unintended consequential activists  are using one  good intention principle thing as a excuse  for great evil .
Peace in our time .  Chamberlain, Shaw , ........PM's of many times and places .

Moral authority from the out of touch minority

RE : Booing at sporting events

What a laugh .- all this fuss about booing at sporting events . These last few weeks have seen the religious left ( eg Jane Caro on ABCTV )pontificating about how one should behave in the auditorium . "One mustn't boo" was the conclusion after many could not conclude their sessions with the Sanhedrin over what is sinful in the new age. Unfortunately the new age has been ignoring the question of sin long enough for it to come back and bite them big time.

Takes one to know one - ABC boo each week when conservatives speak , What hypocrisy ! -especailly when its snide stuff . ( the way to avoid being prosecuted for the garbage words you apply is to convey your judgement without words )

Fortunately for some of us, sin is just normal and its best to limit your attention to your own or you might just spend your whole life worrying about others instances .

Booing can be  quite OK - telling someone what you think about their behaviour is what good friends do. Honest face forward confrontation is not only not condemned in scripture - its advocated from the Creator in the garden and fig leaves upwards. Nah is a boo just as Yey is a hurray !
In a booing crowd,  you simply can't always tell whether a comment is racist or deeply hurtful to someone . Should we all stop booing so there is no confusion about whose sinning ? No - we would never enjoy the idea of game playing -most people are not hurt by words used in a game. Players shake hands at the end to assert that .
We feel for Adam Goodes and anyone who "gets it all the time" because some of it is probably racist and deeply personal and  hurtful  . People hide behind words and what can we do about it when we still believe in primacy of free speech . Same with people who feel ostracised because of their unusual choices looks or gifts - its hard .  Speak back , questioning and points of order are all good options to counter .  "Tough it out "is good advice for all of us when it happens to us

The reality is its easy to go beyond just telling someone what you think of their behaviour ( to their face  - which is not a sin ) particularly when you are angy .new to some in the new age - anger is not a sin.  " Be angry but don't sin " puts the two subjects in context .( Ephesians )
The sin is when words are cutting words and involve physical and verbal violence ( both considered as prosecutable and serious matters in our code.

So,  some booing is Ok and some is not . "No I disagree " they say in Parliament each day ---nay .

If we aren't allowed to play games or respond to what we see and hear ,we don't learn to test limits and grow up .
Maybe we can't all shake hands at the end of the game, ( great symbol)  but at least we can and mostly do go back to talking like grownups after the game.  see you there ---noise anger and all !

No Q&A doesn't deserve a complete serve BUT

 The public are in a fanatical mood and the Media are going to have to excel in their primary task of reporting (not commenting) if they are to retain audience and prove that they  too haven't been lighting fires they can't put out ; trusting their own judgement about what’s worth reporting . Mark Scott’s defence is sound and welcome  but time has come for a response that cuts into the dumb idea  of banishing evil. Time has come  for the many ageing reactionaries in the ABC to let younger less cynical and snide people report on matters of the heart - so that we don't all keep living the dream in a  “war with the world”  way.  And also making their own category control judgments ( eg religion is not reasonable , must only listen to peer  reviewed science/arguments -such controls limit us to the mundane .    Young people,  if you haven’t noticed,  aren't always as cynical an as categorical as we are . If they are lucky,  they might just ignore their peers and get married anyway.  Voltaire would hopefully see that all voices haven't been heard on ABC because the dominant old myth and heresy of banishment of evil has now returned. Worse its morphed into the new grand good gospel and its momentum is growing and will keep growing while we feed it . We Christians are expected to be banished for promoting religion when Neiman points out we are both working the same territory - "where reason is missing”. Banishment will not work . Both Jesus and Jung call it a product of denial—where reason goes missing for quite reasonable reasons; where reason goes missing because some broadcaster rules a discussion on faith to be out of order – beyond reason would you believe.    In blessing the present configuration and the narrow reason limits of our age ( don’t get me started – as a scientist I do not know what motivates;  those given freedom to choose  good or evil or justify their choice )  , Mark  fails to promote the vision that works and has worked to get us here ; ( let someone produce there own historical reviews )  the possibility of other programs that could grow and give better coverage of the open range  than quickfix Q&A .Rather than limiting the vision to Voltaire , methinks we all outta go out with Waugh and seek to give seeding to more creativity and licence on his three channels - that way our precious ABC  would not only be good , but would have many,  many more scoops to be proud of.

 

Some good shows

8MMM is great, as was Utopia .  and   Have you been watching .  NITV is doing well too

When are the ABC going to risk the agenda by having their version of Family Feud.?

and do something punchy for kids instead of that indulgent RAGE  (they don;t know how  so just take the cameras around to youth groups around the country . Community TV on ABC3 )

If its some comfort , even the BBC know how to botch a good story as their new wishy washy hacking at Chestertons great stories.( Father Brown ) shows 


The big problem is NOT the actors and others , but the writers guild
We are only a small country--- lets do what we do do better - and ditch the PC scriptwriters . Tender for scripts .

I thought the ABC had banished Evil........ like it has God

Moral inquiry and political activism start where reason is missing.    Sorry the ABC is not that clever ....yet

Many leaders in the ABC think we have overcome the difficulty of evil and good ,  meaning they are lost in their attempt to find peer reviewed proof of their own chosen authors rhetoric on these two items -They remain  behind the times despite 3 channels , a budget and a budget process to keep any political party in power  forever. How lucky for the left ; for believers who think God is smaller than their view of Him  
Still the right are none too tight either 

The right are hung up an the half truth of radicalization .Dig a bit deeper brothers !

I thought Tony Abbott was wrong this week to advocate not allowing people accused of fighting in a war back into our country . It seems to show not only that we don't know what to do to stop young people going ( true at a political level ) but that we think evil is in the person , not the idea . To miss the last point is to put the cart before the horse, miss the concept of redemption and remain totally behind the game in the war on terror. The West has lost its way because it doesn't seek to teach kids right and wrong; Our wonderful idealistic children are attracted to people who do.

Why are our idealistic children joining a movement that talks about right and wrong?  Answer;   because we don't . The ABC's program Rage stands as a tired old  tribute to its indifference to questions of morality . Its blatant evidence of the agencies capitulation to the child in our midst  Like so much abcchurch  it proclaims the gods spell that"all will be well if everyone does what they like"  , In modern times  its morphed into - and "we can speak evil condemnation of one person "despite the fact that ( its says No you can't in number 8 of 10) and ignore the subclause of mercy --- "it would be better if he changed his mind "as the really effective  gospel teaches us to do.
The majority of commentators  are missing the point . Young people want to be radical and rightly so . They are sick of the blunt and the blunted face of idealism in their parents world

Sneer if you like but the narrow optimistic pessimists in your organisation are being overcome by encirclement from the bigger picture people - making you irrelevant in the new world on internet info and access ,  Your preferred choices and ignorance is being recognized and your former stranglehold on information is being  circumvented  Your belated use of the words you sought to banish (good and bad) come from nowhere and often go nowhere   Great authors still talk to the tough tensions elsewhere .
Pity, because there are some good things on the ABC.

ABC confuses information with entertainment

Q&A is entertainment  not information  , ABCTV  the only place the left can get a congregation together . The adherents don't have to pay and why do we put up with them getting prime time drip feeds into our homes ?

The terrible thing is that as Monday night shows , the program skips over serious stuff with the high priest trying to amuse us all when tragedy is in the air ( Labors dumb and sentimental non ground related ed policy , Ice outta control , Kids without real hope )

TOPS IN INFO  Information  -No . Too controlled , misleading and unauthorized -- Its too often in real learning terms a technocolor yawn ( as some of my drinking friends call it) -looks good but takes you nowhere . SBS and NITV can be better. They talk too much, listen too little ( Epstein 774 has the right idea recently )

TOPS IN ENTERTAINMENT ?Some great authors get a go there( Aus story , The Slap, Redfern now,Dr Blake) . , Much of their very good stuff comes from BBC and light entertainment like sport -- tell me who needs more Wall to wall Steven Fry telling us how much he knows?. Even good parody and satire they have lost sight of the art of. A bit of desperate talking -losing power and status ? 


THE POINTY END  As we go down with paper degrees worth less than the paper they are printed on , we need to recognize the ABC's role in dumbing down Australia. ABC management  don't even see that we degrade our society if we worship technology NOT science and proper study as so many do , amnu of their so called science programs do exactly that -- even their best ones . The real tough education revolution they avoid.

Tell me we are not "miners" under the ABC leadership !. . On science and study, they are into heroes( Brian on Q&A, ) trinkets and mining the idea of technology ( not science) shares( Alan Kohler ) 
On news related, they are living on the capital they haven't earned and losing it hand over fist with careless commentary instead of promoting true authorship .Bottom line -   unelected governance on the drip feed 
Its the only place the Left have where they can get a congregation together. Why do we suffer through their sameold sameold preaching teaching and sentimentality that doesn't work! .
Switchoff (FB) and /or keep them on track - as more and more thinking people are! Your children deserve better.

Control agents and Chameleons

I don't watch or listen as much to the ABC as I used to. It will go into history in denial of history ( current era ) Its hope in an evolved understanding proving more vain by the day . ABC showing a degree of fanaticism so high that its clearly  evident to casual observers ; the current game plans showing a  diminishing role in real info age learning.  
The left have no where to go but to stick with the drip feed of the tricked taxpayer who if he thinks about it - wants better.

Like political parties, they talk of education revolution unaware just how badly and carelessly they are  part of the degradation of a sound education  pedagogy. Just how little balance there is there . Young people get nothing but the stupid anachronistic rage of the war against everything that is the style sheet on which they write. Worse, Rage gives in  to the idea that what kids want,  they need - really productive parenting
 Once you realize there is no such thing as an independent author,  but that we should be hearing many more authors you can only switch off those who think it their job to act as gatekeepers - the many overrated hosts of programs on the ABC.

Worse ABC's licence to be the best at full stories denied by short unresearched and a very limited number of authors being on air . SBS by contrast outclass ABC completely in education (Anton and Jenny just 2 examples)

Paradoxically the story telling neglect is being picked up by Phillip Adams today .

So the Bible is the best read of 2014 , according to ABC's" leading intellectual" Phillip Adams .https://soundcloud.com/abc_rn/phillip-adams-on-the-bible For someone who has spent his whole life hoping that these" fables and distracting fantasies "would die the death of most books like them, this takes some explaining What makes these books so special now, after all these years ?
I think he's just playing with us ( as he does ) .Just another chameleon chairing his own tale at our expense? The best part for those bored by these half baked rationalists and their  lengthy tirades of the overly rational too , the stories in the books by over 40 different authors generally stand alone as experience - take them as such or not; At least its not theory. And not just one bloke controlling the content like U get at the ABC . 

Les Murray models how to report mental health issues

Les showed that rural pressures create great risks and that's a consensus issue .

Because the  Greens and major parties never study anything properly and haven't supported an objective research program they simply don't know what to do beyond that .

The danger is, though,that they will fall for any amount of new unproductive research.

Firstly they need to know who are participants and observers in this debate ,,,and then dismiss the outsiders .
 The outsiders and name callers , for example,   talk about resilience when they wouldn't know what a resilient ecosystem looked like . As said at start they create and perpetuate fear as a result of fear . Spinoza rightly said that fear is a companion of hope,so finding its right place is important ; These distant  "would be doctors" will never know that - The ABC wouldn't even listen to them so much if they chased the right people  RN .ie Bush telegraph .
Thankfully Les  knows that,  unlike the fearful kids whose minds weare contaminating with a glass half empty view of the world.. You can breed an alcoholic in the city just as easily as you breed one trying to grow grass. The grass grows in each paddock and no simple equation will tell you why one famaily thrives in poverty and abundance while another dives - attitude has a lot to do with it . Not so much nature and not so much " talking positively - a uniquely unsustainable approach cultivated by those on the drip fed from the taxpayer ) .  What the farm will tell you each year , though if you stick with it is that sun and rain will come again forgiving the past and making a new start;  not only possible but often highly productive to boot .Comes and goes like positive and negative , anger and joy , mental stress and mental relief . Maybe it isn't a an illness as the specialist on Q&A said.


Let noone say the natural world is limited without saying at the same time its most limited by the minds of men . I have published on this issue as a professional environmental risk assessor.

Recommendations to the ABC 
--Was great that the ABC have got this right --- they need to get out of the way and let people talk
--The ABC and the Project are great at finding problems to talk about but they are really shit at offering solutions .Too many reporters like the thrill of naming them instead of linking. The Project is much better at it than the ABc and that's saying something  . As I said to Jon Feine over ten years ago with his listeners;link  us to each other  and then you wouldn't create so much unresolved mental stress ( creates it by playing with the subject like Tony Jones does )
-- Programs like Bush telegraph need people with real experience and understanding of rural people . Its easy to feed lollies  when mental issues require you to be aware of the medicine even if you aren't the ones to apply it - you might even invite guests like Les who hold a balance that really helps and don't dissect the person into a million broken pieces ( the legacy of those who practice at the school of mere description )  

Mental as - an example : the poor professionals suffering in the Utopia ABC series

In a paradox of huge proportions Working Dog and the ABC have managed to help us keep sane . Like our partners they seem to show the best and the worst of us .The worst kind of wolves are those who never let us tell the whole truth ; those whose faith is in speculating and technology alone ; Those who insist we talk positive without a break . As Chestereton said so well nearly  100 years ago , the maniacs who fly the flag of the world - even when the war is on .

What grand therapy and grand tragedy is Utopia ABC . They didn't research the problem they reported it -- good work --which is really mostly what we want the ABC to do.

The government have got no idea that the reason they have such a incipid lot of advisers on some complex matters is because they have cultivated the view that "their job is simple "and and therefore any simple idiot can do it .

Well done Working Dog

- only thing is  -- its easy to see a problem and even easier for some smart arses to rush in and offer " answers" .
Much more important now for the ABC to help build a road back to planning for environmentally sustainability .It will be hard work but the best work for a generation of young people who need something hard to do .