Saturday 27 April 2013

Where Creativity becomes a Repressive Cloud of Confusion

Arts is perhaps the field that is most susceptible to political and ideological propaganda. This is because arts explores various understanding from a range of perspectives. As such, theorists in an arts fields such as international relations, psychology and politics are able to argue that their views are not invalid or unreasonable on the grounds that any perspective is valid. This is evidence of our postmodern world where every view is equally valid.

If every view is equally valid, then, how can two conflicting views be resolved? How do we determine who is right and who is wrong? In our postmodern world, it depends all on who is the more powerful. No longer can we make assumptions about a person's status on the basis of their group. No longer can one say that one is right as that would be seen as a egotistical view. Yet, some people can criticise others to be wrong and act like their right, even when have no grounds to say so.

Groups that claim that they are oppressed, often do so to gain "moral authority" over others in their pernicious lies. No longer does society believe in any truths. If there is no truth, there is no grounds for claiming human rights as rights are inherently possessed by the individual.

Postmodern makes no sense. Political correctness has repressed any efforts to break the silence that there are truths.

Wednesday 24 April 2013

What!? No election campaign ads yet?

Have you realised that there have been no election campaign advertisments launched by either the Australian Labor Party or the Liberal National Party? It would just cost too much money.

That Julia Gillard called the federal election shows that she wants to maintain government for a little longer in case they loose because they have no confidence, and to repair their many internal party and policy problems. This shows that the ALP is one that is damaged.

It is now up to ALP to repair what they can. Whether they can swing unsure voters and whether the masses can forgive them for what they did to a democratically elected leader will determine the results of the upcoming election on the 14 September 2013.

Saturday 20 April 2013

Capitalism is the only way to go

Commerce, economic and business subjects are taught from a capitalist framework. To understand what is meant by this, one must understand the spirit of capitalism. Capitalism is the ideology that free markets are fundamental to building an economy. I may not be a student of economics or commerce, but I have studied accounting before in high school, and I know that the sole or main purpose for the existence of a business is to make profit. One does not need to be a student of economics to know this.

Capitalism thrives on individualism, that one is entitled to what one earns and has the right to do what one wants with one's earnings. One needs to have the 4M's to do start a manufacturing or production business: materials, manpower, money and machinery. Manufacturing is in the primary sector as it gives rise to the ability to engage in trading goods. Without the 4M's, businesses cannot start and a country will not be able to create wealth. The fundamental needs for food, shelter, water and transport will be hard to meet.

This is in complete contrast to the idea the idea that everything is used rather than owned by the individual. The government controls the use of everything rather than owns it. This idea is communism. My understanding of communism is not that of a dictatorship, although it is usually associated with a dictatorship, but a communalistic wealth distribution to eliminate private ownership.

The underlying principles in commerce, economic and business subjects are that the self is paramount - that one needs to look after oneself before looking after others. This is true, but this idea tends to influence people to neglect the needs of others. Furthermore, based on my past experiences, many people are induced with the assumption that the wealthier one is, the harder that person works, and the poorer one is, the lazier that person is. Although it may be true in some cases, not everyone is born into a wealthy resourceful family. People cannot be blamed for being poor, just because they are poor.

Capitalism is essentially about survival of the fittest. If one is not fit enough, it's just too bad.

Saturday 13 April 2013

The Law is not the Absolute Remedy to Social Disputes

Law is taught at universities from a humanistic perspective. Humanism is the idea that humans are absolutely capable of fixing our own problems, including resolving disputes between people. There is no doubt that the law is needed to maintain social order by providing a framework for society to live, and to protect human liberties.

However, it cannot be denied that the law alone cannot change wrong social attitudes towards different groups or aspects of life. The law is merely concerned with what people do, not what people think. Laws cannot change the hearts of people.

At law school, students are taught that democracy is unquestionably the best form of government  because people can choose their government, any disputes can be resolved by the law and that any social reform need not take ethics or morality into account. Most students to take these assumptions at face value without challenging these ideas.

People attack one for being a communist as soon as one critiques democracy. People attack one for being sexist as soon as one critiques any female privileges granted by the law. People attack one for being bigoted,  conservative and illogical as soon as one critiques the lack of concern for ethics or morality to guide legal principles.

Such assumptions must not go unquestioned. One must never forget how powerful is the spirit of the law in influencing the way people behave and think.

Wacko, dodgy University Discourses: The Irony of Educatoin

Majority of youth in Australian attend university to build skills to find work. However, the sad thing is that some degrees, particularly the ones that a politically motivated, do not equip people with critical thinking. They only seek to brainwash a generation of students to campaign for a certain political ideology.

I will be exploring a variety of majors that every student needs to carefully examine, before believing the credibility of what is taught in such areas.

Wednesday 3 April 2013

The "Innocent" Journalist is not so Innocent

The media, especially the modern Western media is among the most evil institutions of all. It seems to be fighting for democracy, accountability, transparency and freedom. However, it is only when one looks beneath its seemingly noble surface that one realises it has a more sinister agenda.

Leigh Sales from 7:30 reports seems like an innocent journalist. She is intelligent in the eyes of some, but biased and cunning in the eyes of others. Her interview with federal opposition leader Tony Abbott which won her a coverted Walkley Award, is perhaps most revealing of her biased agenda to support the government, or who knows what else.

First, she keeps on insisting to Tony Abbott what former CEO of BHP Billiton Marius Kloppers said about capital tax from a source that she does not reveal. What Kloppers says is obviously to protect himself and look after his money and power. Klopper's statement is a biased source and cannot be used alone to give authority about the implications of the capital and mining tax.

Tony Abbott has been smart enough to read a statement of another party who gives an opposing view. It is either that Sales is pushing forward an agenda to destroy Abbott's credibility or that she fails to see how Klopper's statement cannot be used alone. Sales, however, is shrewd enough to know that Klopper's statement cannot be used alone as an authoritative source. So, it can be reasonably inferred that she is attempting to attack Abbott's credibility as a politician.

She even asks Abbott if he has read the judgment. Whether he has read it or not does not matter, as the capital and mining tax are economic issues, not legal issues in this particular context. This is exactly what Abbott should have said. Sales in an arrogant journalist who pretends to know everything, even things she does not know. She has successfully hidden her intention by her sweetly supercilious, plastic smile.

Secondly, she asks Abbott about why he said that asylum seekers are illegal. As a law graduate, he should have explained that they are illegal in the positivist sense in Australia because they bypass the immigration passage designated by the state. This allowed Sales to rudely barge in and expresses her mere opinion that she doesn't think asylum seekers are illegal. She has successfully crafted a straw (wo)man argument that asylum seekers are legal because they are all innocent and legitimate. The whole point of processing asylum seekers is to determine whether they are genuine, legitimate asylum seekers as opposed to fugitives, or worse, terrorists.

Sales assumes her moral high ground when she is of no moral standing. She is a cunning devious journalist who has no place in the ABC.









Monday 1 April 2013

More Humourous Definitions

Politician - a person who typically cannot be trusted because he or she normally speaks of empty rhetoric to help the vulnerable and needy, but approves of the killing of innocent millions in countries poorer than one's own

Masses - the people who are not of the political ruling class. Their views about their government is often varied. Political figures attempt to win their hearts by giving them full of often empty promises to serve them.

Media - the all-powerful force that controls the government and masses in the free world. The ignorant masses slave to the media and take what it tells them at face value. Ironically, people think they are informed but they have been played by the media to boost its revenue and influence over the masses.

Good Writing and Fun - an unusually awesome blog that seeks to clear up the confusion and make the masses informed about the flaws of the wacko discourses that the modern youth are bombarded with