tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post1533126930662991326..comments2023-11-03T00:06:36.875+11:00Comments on Bunyipitude: No Wonder We're Called "Deniers"Bunyiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-37114744093041160772011-12-11T21:17:36.229+11:002011-12-11T21:17:36.229+11:00I wonder if Australian philosopher Damon Young is ...I wonder if Australian philosopher Damon Young is entirely ignorant of the philosophical tradition that inspired the antisemitic pamphlet Protocols of the Sages of Zion? <br />The direct inspiration was an 1864 pamphlet by French anti-conservative Maurice Joly (A dialogue in hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu). <br />Joly believed that 'modern' despotism involved free elections and press freedom. The Protocols provided a rationale for terrorism.<br />I think Mr Young simply believes that between elections, citizens should be seen but not heard.Leo Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-70095660989284173102011-12-09T15:08:30.323+11:002011-12-09T15:08:30.323+11:00Surely the ABC can find better propagandists than ...Surely the ABC can find better propagandists than schoolboys?<br />When this little man grows up, he will probably, like most of us, find that his certitudes were not cast in stone.kevinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-34678457507980342962011-12-09T14:17:34.599+11:002011-12-09T14:17:34.599+11:00There's no arguing with them Bunyip. Look at ...There's no arguing with them Bunyip. Look at this extract from Damon's party piece:<br /><br />"Of course we all have moments of delusion, particularly when we have invested – psychologically or monetarily – in some institution or labour: political parties, careers, academic theories, for example. But some individuals and communities transform this mechanism into a modus operandi, and make themselves more, not less, vulnerable as they do. Nothing invites coercion like the scent of bad faith."<br /><br />Clearly there's no investment in a particular academic theory or community in Damon's writing though, is there, with his liberal scattering of the post-modern "Other" throughout his argument? <br /><br />Now, who would those "individuals and communities" he refers to actually be? Why, those intellectually bankrupt mobilising conservatives of course. Certainly not, in Damon's world, the broad left thumping along on The Drum, a community to which he implicitly subscribes in his post-modern jargon and analysis.<br /><br />Well Damon, as far as I am concerned your extract suits leftist organisations to a T. As I construe it, their 'modus operandi' gets near to 100% on the delusional scale, and that's my definition of Bad Faith. I don't give a damn about any Other.Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.noreply@blogger.com