A central pillar for the workings of democracy is an educated population. An authoritarian dystopian regime requires the masses to be kept ignorant and misinformed. It’s timely to remember George Orwell’s totalitarian world of Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Brave New World of Aldous Huxley. It is now almost 2015 and we are embarking on – or, preferably, soon to be disembarking from – the voyage into the strange and weird world of Abbott’s dystopian vision for the future. It is an Australia where the legitimacy of science is being decommissioned, the population is being de-educated and the corrupt are honoured and befriended. The persecution of refugees is now official policy and the media and body politic are in the service of big money. Public broadcasting has been degraded and is on the way to being privatised to a media that will support the Abbott worldview. The teaching of evolution will be balanced with the Christian worldview, shepherded by school chaplains. Similarly, climate change is seen as just a “theory” that will be “balanced” with the propaganda of climate “sceptics”. It is a land officially founded on the principles terra nullius and on a genocide denied. The deforested landscape is striated and scarred with roads, CSG wells, massive coal mines and their associated ports. It will be the great second coming of the age of coal, which is somehow seen as good for humanity. Australia will be a land of heat, flames, floods and droughts. The poor will be enslaved on low wages and educated only to the level required for their toil. Healthcare will be degraded, privileged and privatised and the trend to a rising life expectancy reversed. The problem of welfare and aged care will thus be solved. If you think this is apocalyptic hysteria, that is understandable. Because the vision emerging of the workings of the Abbott Government “mind” is too ridiculous to deserve anything but mockery. Source and read more: https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/abbotts-dystopia,7155
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:27:03 +0000
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