bedlam updates

The Australian Government policy of re-destroying people who've been destroyed continued over the weekend with the news a boatload of humans is out there somewhere floating, as is Scott Morrison's lost fuckheaded soul. What a world! Maybe civilisation is a bad idea if it creates people who behave like domesticated animal arseholes. Maybe cities and nations are just concentration camps where we are free to roam only to check the locks and the perimeter fence like the prison guards we are under our casual hair. Australia started as a jail, so our tendencies as a nation are noted and no mystery, but the jail approach to modern life is worldwide. I'm over it. I can read books. I know other ways exist. I know civilisation has ground people down for what? 6000 years? And the cheerleaders and apologists? They benefit from the way things are! I don't know if you've ever grabbed a coffee on Lygon Street then slipped into the Nova to watch a foreign fillum, but on an autumn

So I'm listening to a science show on the radio and the science people start talking about rhesus monkeys being shown coloured squares on a screen to test some ideas and the science radio people start joking around about monkeys wearing little hats and playing cards and I'm thinking, "Hang on, are these monkeys in a lab? Are they captives? What's so fucking funny here?" The ideas being tested related to the idea of a "hot streak" in sport and the science people were tickled pink at the idea of monkeys playing sport and this reminded me of the recent wave of bacon talk on the interwebs. Remember that? Large numbers of people started going on about bacon and it was getting kind of creepy? Like, what kind of point are you people making here? I mean, I like bacon too but I don't go on and on about it because of the unsettling facts of where it comes from. These scientists were coming out with one joke after another about monkeys doing unlikely things

Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey, Julie Bishop, Scott Morrison, George Brandis, yeah, that’ll do for now. One reckons Strayans have the right to be bigots, which is a very interesting interpretation of being an arsehole, another seems to get a huge charge from being tough on asylum seekers, god knows what inner turmoil that prick has to deal with. One has completely given up on the idea of Government giving something back to society, one is the proof that women in positions of power are just as fucked as the dudes and one is a total meathead while also being the Prime Minister. We are so rooted and there is a part of me that looks very fondly on the idea of no longer giving a shit. The forces of evil are so powerful, they are in charge and they are evil precisely because they really believe they know what’s best. Do you know what’s best? I don’t and I’m not about to agree that these powerful expert leaders perhaps know something I don’t because they don’t believe climate change is real, wh