The early Christians provided a solution to a problem the old world didn't think it had .
The old greeks used to think too much .
Our new world doesn't know what problem its got --even now -But let me suggest - it thinks too much !
The people have finally realized that the rationalists in charge are not resolving the challenges they have busy talking about . In a technological age what works is thrown out and people are throwing them out.
The people are rebelling - yet again ! The people are not going to take lectures about how it all works -- when it doesn' t. The Greens may go on, but ....excessive talk is the problem and they have it as bad as any , Pauline and Trump are on the money in talking resolution not waves and waves of rationale .
Doesn't mean P &T make any sense -- which is my point. No one who talks about reason makes sense . The length of the argument doesn't matter . If there is any quality in the logic, that too does not matter if its not working .
Question: Do the new leader types assume the solution is about " more money "? ,When they don't they are ahead of the game because they are saying society must change direction, not where it spends the limited tax base.
Thankfully, we have centuries when any reversion to this old heresy( that we have found the tree of knowledge of good and evil) has been followed by a big gasp of fresh air from outside.
Shakespeare teaches us how to laugh again at those who presume to know things and do things , He reminds us about the terrible state of man where he believes his garden is like one on Monty Don's. when its really fulla weeds
Luther does the same to the law overload days of his day when he reminds people they can just learn for themselves about what matters in life. The test of any faith is " Does it work?" The house of words is a house of cards.The house of logic around those words is always a little limited.
The ABC of course will be the last of the dinosaurs to go extinct because they have the floor on wired up connection devices -- they have been talking at us at our expense for decades .Not just words but clumsy connections : connections that deeply offend scientists like myself ( Qanda with Barnaby May1)
Prof Brian Cox will talk about the wonders of the universe without daring to mention the possibility of a creator - its in his brief to wear blinkers so that noone in the congregation can too excited about anything but straight laced determinism. Nice and tight ; the right facts - the right interpretation of those facts.
I like Chesterton's idea of giving a myriad of untidy associations a single mystic name -( something to do with the grace of God for eg) saves much speculation and going around in circles .
The ABC have a stake in maintaining their own rigid place and position - lengthy inconclusive reasoning suits their eternally funded schedule . Such is their silly scientism that when we say "we are not content with facts " they will make us wait for conclusions. Noone is in any mood to wait, except those on the public payroll . ( pretending to do science )
Frustration is one thing , but what does it take to get a Trump type character over the line ?
The old ABC claim to "have things on the highest authority " doesn't wash well when all we have is more and more data collection and review .ABC journos will quote a modeller without realizing that even their local doctor would be dismissed if that was all he talked about.
When they trump before us the same old gurus to summarize the same old case
We get Flannery flailing around yet again on the disaster trail -compounding disasters of wait for --dead coral and together
Di Natale and his "hot seas" , These SA's know how things work ---- we don't think.
So how do you get the people excited ? ,
Maybe
A You provide them with a simple solution . You tell em "Don't think about it" -
B You start believing your own bull "That stuff is all mind construct and unworthy of a progressive" Sure it goes down well till you realize that such inadequate logic undermines everything YOU say too .
This is whats left of the left in 2016 . The left have finally got the rewards of all their shallow determinism. Limited logic and lumbering logomachy ( although the ABC just cut the discussion off - not like here!)
Just lie back and let your lizard brain tell you whats next? , You don't or want to have choices or ,,,at least more than one this weekend.
