Continuing our Dispatch from last week, with this the second extract. First published 10 June 2013. Have you done your homework?
We are all familiar with the ‘flight-or-fight response’. I looked it up. I found that one of many physical reactions in the flight-or-fight response is tunnel vision and that the “specific components of cognitions in the fight or flight response seem to be largely negative”.
Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72.
Fear and Loathing has been with us a long time.
It is what drove a large number of Christians to break the sixth commandment when they sallied forth to stir the possum in the Holy land.
It is what drove Dubya’s nation to believe that there were tunnels (tunnel vision) chock a block full of weapons of mass destruction and sally forth to Babylon to break the sixth commandment.
Bob Marley’s Babylon System:
We refuse to be
What you wanted us to be;
We are what we are:
That’s the way it’s going to be. If you don’t know!
You can’t educate us
For no equal opportunity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5EoiQX7u5k
Fear and loathing that drove the nation that gave us Schiller and Schubert to exterminate other humans as if they were vermin.
Fear and loathing, fight-or flight, that drove homicidal fanatics to fly planes full of humans into buildings full of humans.
Fear and loathing, fight-or-flight that drove supposedly civilised humans to throw other humans off planes into the Atlantic Ocean.
Fear and loathing, fight-or-flight that drives the Nation of Zion to periodically bombard the neighbouring ‘untermenschen’.
Fear and Loathing… from Malthus’ An Essay on the Principle of Population:
“A native with his child, surprised on the banks of the Hawksbury river by some of our colonists, launched his canoe in a hurry, and left behind him a specimen of his food, and of the delicacy of his stomach. From a piece of water-soaked wood, full of holes, he had been extracting and eating a large worm. The smell both of the worm and its habitation was in the highest degree offensive. These worms, in the language of the country, are called Cah-bro; and a tribe of natives dwelling inland, from the circumstance of eating these loathsome worms, is named Cah-brogal.”
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 2007…
Alleged widespread dysfunction, paedophilia and ‘rivers of grog’ that drove the denizens of the ‘Clever Country’ to believe that ‘something had to be done’, which the authorities sure did! With bi-partisan support an emergency was declared in the Northern Territory, the Intervention.
…thank you Jesus, thank you Lord….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E3Z_dvkVcs
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 2013…
So is reversing that travesty, the assimilationist behemoth that is the Intervention and its decade long relabelled extension (‘Stolen Futures’) on either major party’s election platform? No Sir!
Pride of place on the hustings in the Nation of the Fair-Go is taken by ‘Stop the Boats’
The main rationale being presented by our political leaders for ‘Stopping the Boats’ is to discourage people from jumping non-existent queues and to thwart the ‘People Smugglers’.
That fear and loathing may have some relevance and that we are a nation of xenophobes is not mentioned. Don’t mention the war!
Yes folks, this is dinkum! Google ‘people smugglers business model’ (I just did) and you get more than two million ‘results’!
Breaking the ‘business model’ of people smugglers is now (after getting into the World Cup) Australia’s greatest aspiration.
Close the Gap, Stronger Futures, Stop the Boats ….Can’t take your slogans no more……. No more sweet talk from the hypocrites…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD6C3vX4cSg
We will complete this dispatch next week with the third part.