Beware the Nice Sweet Person

There has been a great deal of campaigns in Australia regarding violence, that is, violence against (Australian?) women but not violence against other groups. Violence is force used against someone such that the victim is unable to resist it, to control the behaviour of the subject in the long term or short term. Physical acts which perpetrate such force are obvious, but verbal abuse is not. This is because it is hard to determine whether verbal messages cause someone to behaviour accordingly to another's will. Furthermore, behaving according to the will of another may not necessarily be done out of lack of individual autonomy.

The signs of a violent person are:

• repetitive or constant swearing
• immodest dressing
• often gathering together with people who are aggressive
• intentionally rude gestures
• unsympathetic 
• appreciation/taste for crude jokes, especially jokes which make fun of oppression or weakness of others, but yet feel offended when people make jokes about them
• attempting to spread ideology that picks on only certain groups while forgetting it own group regarding violence e.g. feminism, in particular Australian feminism

If there is one piece of advice I could give you, it would be that people who seem nice and demand good respectful treatment, usually in a way which makes you feel bad because you know you haven't done anything wrong are the people who can be trusted the LEAST. There are many people like this at the university I attend, and perhaps in the whole country. The domestic university student population is largely representative of Australian youth. This  should remind you of certain people. The Jezebel spirit has entrapped Australian society.

Economic Anarchy of Capitalism is the Real Source of Evil: Albert Einstein

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor - not by force, but on the whole in faithful compliance with legally established rules. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (1949)

Capitalism is the ideology that one has possession over what one has, and thus can do with one's possessions as one pleases. The spirit behind capitalism is mammon, the spirit of greed. The false god of capitalism has made people more greedy, self-entitled and deprived people of their humanity. The whole world is now slave to capitalism. People want to work, but only for higher pay and more holidays or leisure. People do not want to work in order the serve others.  People dare to say that they want to a pay rise even when they work less or work in a blatantly inefficient manner. This shows how self-entitled and self-centred people are. More importantly, this is why capitalism works - it thrives of economically effective labour. 

NB: Please not the views of Einstein are purely his and do not necessarily represent the views of the author of this post. Many who claim to be communists or socialists are really wolves in sheep's clothing, without trying to imply anything about any target group or individual in particular. They use the label to appeal to others. If you have any comments about capitalism, please feel free to contact me by the contact form right at the bottom of the page. Feed back is strongly encouraged.

Corruption in Australia

To many Australians i.e. the average politically uninformed Australians, corruption is very rare or occurs very infrequently in Australia, at least compared to other countries. Don't be deceived by the media. The Australian media often brushes over corruption such as that committed by Eddie Obeid and Gordon Nuttall. Don't forget the Fitzgerald inquiry which sought to investigate widespread corruption. Now, the new government has announced a taskforce to investigate customs corruption. Corruption is not confined to monetary transactions. Failing to report something that an official is obliged to report can be argued to amount to corruption.

The Dominance of Humanism at Universities (1)

Humanism is the ideology that humankind is paramount above all. What human institutions dictate socially, politically or culturally accepted are deemed to be acceptable on the ground that it is the most popular. Thus, what is immoral but popular, such as violence against certain groups on the grounds of their race is deemed acceptable if popular within the humanistic framework. This ideology is what dominates modern universities through law and arts courses. Democracy is taught to be the only one right political framework. Many university courses impose this view on the students. Humanism has come to universities. The crucial question now is how will it influence the next generation?

The Irony of Education

Education has its irony. It can be used to empower people, while disempowering them at the same time by teaching false ideologies, irrational discourses and false doctrines. People are empowered by having knowledge of such things, while not understand the reality of the world and universe. The Best Schools Blog  comments on the culture of modern education. It supports the view that individuals possess free will and are morally responsible for one's own actions. Communities flourish stably when it is accepted that people are responsible for one's own actions, irrespective of how much they have suffered, been hurt or oppressed. It does not purport that people who are "oppressed" are always innocent and therefore, anything suffering they have is attributable to others.

The Best Schools Blog can be found at http://tbsblog.thebestschools.org. I strongly recommend you check it out.

Dignity Does not confer Individual Rights

Especially these days, one cannot be sure whether one is oppressed or not. There is not because oppression is a relative concept. It is indeed not, but people treat it as though it was relative when it concerns their enemies, but treat it as though it was absolutist when it concerns their own or their allies. Oppression is to strip away the dignity of others. This dignity comes from being created equal to all others and from this alone. Dignity is not granted by government, society, family, culture or any other human institution. It is objective. Rights, however, do not arise from dignity. Rather, obligations based on a categorical imperative come from this dignity. Everyone must follow the categorical imperative to ensure it is not broken.

Distracted by Trivia

When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility - Neil Postman

Doesn't this remind you of the Australian media, and in particular, media focused on only the attention of fashion, celebrities, careers and all the other material things? It does, doesn't it? And also, Australian politics, especially when Julia Gillard was campaigning to be elected in 2013?