Ironic

Something that has probably been questioned by people who are endowed with a modicum of critical thinking. When did vaccination status override testing negative for covid? Personally, I would be more comfortable with people who tested negative rather than positive, regardless of if they are vaccinated or not. The data and media reports of how

My Covid Things

I have a warped sense of humour which would be apparent to any who have read anything I have written. I recently wrote my first ever rap song and from that decided that perhaps music is the key to finding sanity in the world we now live in. I re-wrote the lyrics to the Sound

Woke Rap

I have a reasonable relationship with my teenage son and as such we have a shared sense of humour. We sometimes collude on frivolous things as it is entertaining. I was dropping him off at school as it was pissing down rain and I had to do the weekly grocery shopping. We started to formulate

Subversion as a tool

Sun-Tzu outline the principles of subversion around 500BC as it was part of his writings on the art of war. He found that if you had time and patience then you could defeat your enemy without firing a single shot. He detailed these principles as follows. Cover with ridicule all the valid traditions in your

Changing Times

People, in general, have this belief that disasters happen quickly. It is a strange belief to hold as disasters almost never happen quickly and instead build over time until it can no longer be ignored. Perhaps this belief comes from modern culture and the ways in which a story must be compressed to fit into

When Society Fails

Something has been disturbing me for the past few years and like a nasty rash it can be ignored for a while until it simply cannot. The nasty rash that disturbs me is how in a country of allegedly educated people that anything of any consequence is now a case of being in one camp

Eve of Destruction

Way back in the murky mists of times past when people had the courage of their convictions and would do what it took to push back against a corrupt and broken world there were a lot of songs written that put those messages out into the world. Except of course for the ones that were

Antipodean Angst – conclusion

Anyone who writes with conviction does so from the heart and in that they experience a journey of self. It matters little if it is fiction or non-fiction. What matters is the content and the intent of what is written. Writing this essay has taken a journey that spans my entire life and involves research

Vaxx vs Unvaxxed

The push for allowing ‘freedoms’ for fully vaccinated people and denying ‘freedoms’ to those who are unvaccinated is one of the hot topics currently in Australia. It is being promoted by our political class and media, and as with anything to do with the virus it is creating a divide within society and within segments

Lockdown Protests

The protests against the lockdowns in Melbourne and Sydney were interesting in a variety of ways. Interesting in the ways that government handled them in comparison to other protests that have been conducted in Australia since the pandemic began in 2020. Also interesting in the way the media covered the protests compared to other protests.