tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post3895296092364556246..comments2023-07-02T19:23:47.154+10:00Comments on scuze i: real distressFruitCakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-49924774838609897712012-09-16T02:45:14.267+10:002012-09-16T02:45:14.267+10:00Red, I'm sure the only reason anything is achi...Red, I'm sure the only reason anything is achieved in large organisations is because they are so large the management is unable to formulate/ enforce policies to prevent employees achieving things.<br />It also helps that, from time to time, people such as your good self happen along, achieve a little and then leave for the sake of their sanity.<br /><br />But I take your point. Politically inspired conspiracies would be especially difficult to get off the ground, because of the politics of politics. As we know, a camel is a horse designed by a committee. The huge number of feral camels in this country is an indictment. Fortunately, we are actually able to generate some export income by selling camels to people in other countries who actually value them. Go figure.FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-6070038255745588472012-09-15T21:45:11.654+10:002012-09-15T21:45:11.654+10:00I've been in the midst of large 'high-achi...I've been in the midst of large 'high-achieving' organisations and I've been staggered by the remoteness of the possibility of actually achieving anything that anyone cares about ...<br /><br />Some call me cynical, but I'm actually a realist!Red Nomad OZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03020668094026661054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-1335360719357586402012-09-04T23:09:24.375+10:002012-09-04T23:09:24.375+10:00Your comments are so often insightful, Red. A cons...Your comments are so often insightful, Red. A conspiracy theory - so obvious that I didn't think to name it that. Yeah. As for organisation and collaboration of large numbers, even when I work alone I can't seem to achieve much.FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-91527757489961614192012-09-04T20:58:42.916+10:002012-09-04T20:58:42.916+10:00I believe the stories because a mass conspiracy be...I believe the stories because a mass conspiracy between the indigenous people who speak of their stories and the non-indigenous people who back them up would require far more organisation and collaboration than anyone is capable of!!Red Nomad OZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03020668094026661054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-80451628572414617662012-09-04T13:29:20.379+10:002012-09-04T13:29:20.379+10:00Well darling I never took pride but robbed so many...Well darling I never took pride but robbed so many I was bound to pass one here and there.<br />I was born to be a gentle creature just like my mother but was "stolen" at the age of seven to live with drunken people who enjoyed the sight of blood. Subsequent brutal treatment by the police as servants of lawful society put me into a war with it. <br />I know a side you don't know. It would be impossible for you to believe. R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-75167849433507327322012-09-04T12:41:34.928+10:002012-09-04T12:41:34.928+10:00How Freudian... returning to the scene of the crim...How Freudian... returning to the scene of the crime. I admire people who take pride in their work.FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-38342078053996687902012-09-04T09:18:20.372+10:002012-09-04T09:18:20.372+10:00How gracious of you, I felt the same when I drove ...How gracious of you, I felt the same when I drove past houses I'd burgled and saw them up for sale. R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-80738295643892064772012-09-03T17:39:17.755+10:002012-09-03T17:39:17.755+10:00I'm pleased to hear you did not break the cycl...I'm pleased to hear you did not break the cycle. Preservation of culture regardless of merit is so important there will soon be a culture tax levied on anyone damaging the social environment. [Naturally, there will also be a market for cultural destruction rights.] FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-68713376406588534582012-09-03T13:11:40.136+10:002012-09-03T13:11:40.136+10:00Surprising that Windschuttle ever got work in Huma...Surprising that Windschuttle ever got work in Humanities at an Australian university where lefty views are de riguer. My deadhead social worker niece was taught by him at UNSW but turned out safe. In other words, she's a stamped-out conformist to the latte catechism. I could list all its strictures, everything from gay rights to diet, republicanism to dog shit. I KNOW them.<br /><br />Aboriginais in Fitzroy copped yet another invasion when people like my niece destroyed their community there by smartening it up to suit themselves. This scourge has since spread up through Northcote and is now sinking its fangs into Thornbury. Everything suddenly costs more, the unsuave just can't afford to live there. And all you hear from these rotten hypocrites is sympathy for the poor.<br /><br />As a poor white boy myself I only wish I'd been stolen and raised by people who weren't drunkards, criminals and bashers. Because I went on to do some of it myself. You don't avoid it. R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-56686630032973963612012-09-03T00:59:54.313+10:002012-09-03T00:59:54.313+10:00What can you say to people who are in denial? Noth...What can you say to people who are in denial? Nothing really, but we only have to watch the news to see what humans can stoop to.FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-46125310770154211962012-09-02T21:44:49.580+10:002012-09-02T21:44:49.580+10:00There is always those who can't /wont believe ...There is always those who can't /wont believe the injustices humans have inflicted on one another. We had a Hungarian neighbour who was adamant the Holocaust never happened. diane bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002292118984909883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-42111817669031146772012-09-02T13:13:42.200+10:002012-09-02T13:13:42.200+10:00I guess Fitzroy has been/is going the way of other...I guess Fitzroy has been/is going the way of other inner suburbs - so close to the city, gentrification is inevitable, though I can't say I have been there for yonks.<br /><br />You are absolutely right about governments avoiding anything humanising. But at worst I think they have been indifferent to the plight of Aboriginals. Bolt, on the other hand, has sometimes gone to the opposite extreme. At one stage he was repeatedly asking for just one Aboriginal person to come forward and say they weren't taken 'for their own good' [i.e. in the way social workers intervene in families of any background]. One woman came forward and said she was taken, but couldn't remember why as she was very young. Now he uses that example whenever it is convenient.<br /><br />I'm not too sure Victoria is representative of other states, or that huge numbers of Aboriginals read Bolt or would bother to respond if they did. His attitude was so aggressive as to be almost dehumanising.FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-24496008003853450402012-09-02T09:47:07.419+10:002012-09-02T09:47:07.419+10:00Governments hate situations they wish to control b...Governments hate situations they wish to control being humanised. The man's fear for the child in the SS office is very humanising.<br /><br />We were in Gertrude Street last weekend. It has become unrecognisable to what it was and not an Aborigine to be seen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com