Years ago the left – unions, Labor Party, etc. – created White Australia, to prevent the yellow hordes streaming into the country. They were afraid that the cheap labour would undermine the wages of “true Australians”. Now the conspiracy of labour wants us to cut the development of the third world through restrictions on development in an effort to “save the planet”.
In claiming that developing countries will destroy the environment if they develop capitalist, complex economies (and ensure the poorest people on earth become better off as a result), it becomes a battle of poverty vs the environment. So – which one will they choose? To “Make Poverty History”, or “Save the Environment”?
Will we see the anti-poverty NGOs battle the green NGOs any time soon?
Conno,
I remember Robert Macnamara, US Secretary of Defence during the Vietnam War, summising in a recent documentary film about himself along these lines: War is inevitable.
That’s right, war, conflict, fighting, competition, adversity are man’s nature. There cannot be a happy medium, an equilibrium. We are not monks.
War happens daily, between friend and foe, father and son, boss and worker, state and citizen. The union man stages his war with men at the picket line and the liberal lurks as an afterthought on the subconscious of public opinion. It’s mind versus matter.
And you know what? It’s all fair in war.
You have to accept that the free market is itself the greatest tool we have in deciding the direction we’re going to take.
Making the market a tool not of its own making is trouble (feel free to point out an example which demonises the unions in this context). An inevitable part of life is death; akin to cycles of debt and despair, depletion and destruction, misery and hunger.
I am getting to the point…
As long as there are at least two sides to an argument, the issue will be solved somehow. The mechanisms of diplomacy, circumstance, violence, creed, sex, subterfuge, bribery and sleight of hand are always at work towards a happy medium.
I cannot see you actively taking a side in this argument. You are the proverbial buzzard, circling the dueling family you are pitting against one another.
You are but another cog in the big machine.
In finishing up…what of the poor greenies and the poor……uummm…..poor?!?
Simple…if you don’t play the game YOU DIE. You can go down fighting or you can surrender. Greenies, lead by example. Try not to contribute to the consumerist machine. Do your checklists. Poor people, only buy what you need to get by. You don’t need smokes, booze, mobile phones, pokies, tattoos. You need rent, meat, vegies, electric bills, soap and clean clothes.
Help yourselves because buzzard boy is smelling the rot and circling lower………