It is always very uplifting to to hear, real Australian people, talk about the moral prospects of our society. In contrast to the twisted, fascistic minds of Abbott and Morrison who are intent to lead us down the path of a Perverse Morality as Richard puts it. I am still hopeful that we will eventually find intelligent leaders, people like Richard Flanagan to run our country. Here is an extract of the transcript of the interview with Richard Flanagan on Lateline 25.07.2014: “I felt that Prime Minister Abbotts words were not wisely chosen when he spoke about the honour of the Japanese submariners. That honour was no honour at all. It was a perversion of morality that had taken hold and been promoted in Japanese society in the decades before World War II and it led to the horror and it was in the name of that honour that the Australian POWs died and it was in the name of that honour that the Japanese themselves suffered so terribly and I think it would have been better if the Prime Minister spoke about the suffering of the Japanese people in war rather than about ideas of honour which are really a wicked thing. The thing about evil, the thing about something like the Death Railway is it doesnt begin with the first beating or the first execution on something like the Death Railway, it begins decades before when public figures, intellectuals, politicians and so on, begin putting about in society, in their societies, the idea that some people are less than people and that then anything is justified - it can be justified being done to them. We now see those same ideas of people less than people taking hold in our own society. We now have a situation where whatever one thinks about the refugee situation, we treat them as less-than people and you cannot have that. It is a moral sickness. In the end those ideas will escape Manus Island, theyll escape Nauru and they will start to poison us and we should care about them and we can stop them but if we dont you can reap a terrible and bitter harvest.”
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 05:37:07 +0000
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