What me - a catastrophizer? 

The underlying cause of the GFC is the simple fact nobody knows where the money ends up when the security package pass the parcel unravels. We don't have a financial system we have a shambles.

We've used up the Earths resources at a catastrophic rate and the only solution the players have is more growth. It's not only oil, I can't buy the NPK fertilizer I used last year and the new government regulated formula to cut down on phosphate doesn't work.

Australia has the highest rate of desertification in the world.

We used to laugh at oil sheiks buying rolls royces to decorate the desert instead of developing their countries and now we do the same thing. All this and more, you know it's happening. We're on the brink of catastrophe. I'd like to avert it.

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Anarcho -syndicalists, capitalists, communists and any other anarcho-gang miss the point. Anarchy is the holistic approach.

Capitalist ideology? This is what makes me amused. Capitalism isn't an ideology. There never was a group of capitalists who sat down and dreamed up a system to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Capitalism has been an organic process.

I have what I call the catalytic theory of change. A catalyst is introduced that changes everything. The wheel, the domestic horse, the London sewerage system, the birth control pill and the catalyst for Capitalism, the stock market, birth place Holland 1602. A very good idea at the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_Indies_Company

That's what we need right now, a catalyst. The best I can think of is to take de-mock-race out of the hands of gangs.

Nope, I don't accept that a bunch of guys working out a way of accumulating a bundle of capital by selling shares is an ideology. But the idea quickly led to wisespread use because it provided the funds to enable the big projects that flowed from the big ideas of the period to happen. The problems came later with the complete abandonment of good old book-keeping and the development of futures, derivatives and woo woo junk. The economy isn't in the hands of economists anymore, it's in the hands of mathematicians specialising in abstract theories to cover ponzi pyramids with equation wallpaper that nobody has a hope in hell of understanding. Hahahaha it's a serious problem 

Grey wrote on Apr 4^th, 2013 at 5:18pm:


Could feminism be the driving force of disillusionment rather than its antidote?
Disillusionment or pessimism isn't an objective reality, rather, it is an attitude we humans project onto the world. The question then becomes: Which movements today are projecting this disillusionment?

You do realize academics have a process of peer-review, right?

Which published articles have been "manipulated", Mistie?

Please post one and we’ll compare it to a good Today Tonight story.

FD wrote on Apr 6^th, 2013 at 10:58am:



I'll come back to this. I have to dig the articles out of my archives.

Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Apr 6^th, 2013 at 10:35am:


You also used the word 'dishonesty' and as you now admit to having no doubt they lie, it makes me wonder what your problem is with Karnal's post? It's only been 15 years since I got my humanities degree. I must say I was impressed by academia's rigourous pursuit of truth. I think we need some kind of example or fr'instance, to find your allegations credible.

Mistie’s coming back to this, Grey. He needs to go through his old articles, check the references, weigh up their findings against their research methods, etc, etc, etc, that sort of thing.

Shall we discuss Alan’s research for his proposal to make Australia’s rivers flow in the opposite direction? Or his research that shows wetbacks to Australia receiving foodstamps from the Australian government? His research into the high proportion of terrorist-backed refugees who bring their bombs across the Torres Strait in leaky fishing boats and refuse to assimilate? Or his comprehensive research on the benefits of global warming, the idiocy of global warming, the proof of global cooling, and the evidence that, okay, there probably is global warming but there’s nothing you can do about it?

But beside all that, are we allowed to know who pays Alan to have such well-researched opinions and keep his listeners so informed?

Absolutely not. That’s none of our business. Alan makes a positive contribution to our proud society and will not, will not criticize his own culture.

Unless you pay him for it.