Euripides seemed to
know, thousands of years ago, what came from evil. These days I see
evil on this planet. Oh I know it's not “new”, it's been around
for so long, but evil-thinking people probably don't even think that
their thoughts are evil – they simply don't know anyone in poverty.
Thinking this was
supposed to be sending me to the March for March in Brisbane today.
I'd put my name down to go there, I'd worked myself up so much
against far too much evil I see in the government. Except now I'm
over-excited; I can't go today. I can't talk to anyone, I would be
there entirely alone.
On Wednesday this
week there was a march to protest education becoming far too
expensive. It should be free, unless, of course, some church
runs their own. Yes, pay for that. Not everyone has – or
takes – the choice. I'd planned on going to that protest, but on
Wednesday I was even too tired to really enjoy the Streetbeat
rehearsal. I took the train home after that and lay on my bed, hoping
that the education march would be successful. They'd never miss me.
My intention to go
to the protest today is something I've done often for the last 5 or
more years. I had friends who came with me, I met up and chatted with
people. I felt so strong about the protests for the reef, domestic
violence, education, mining, tax, you name it. Anything under the
previous ALP government, and much, much worse under the
current LNP government. Today I would have gone along as a disabled
person who suffers from my stroke with aphasia and is pretty close to
poverty with no personal choice... but aphasia would stop me from
talking to people. Chatting to people.
No government
should cut the tax charged to huge businesses. No government should
cut the unemployment or disability payments. No government should
play with the child care allowance. No government should roll over
unions when they can't even prove whatever they think!
Euripides didn't know anything about how our planet now lives, but he
knew why evil happens.
Too
many people – even rich or well-off people – object to poverty.
Most people who live in poverty or very close, like me, did not
choose. I didn't choose to have a stroke. I didn't choose to have
aphasia. I didn't choose to stop working. Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE, a “British primatologist,
ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace”, according
to Wikipaedia, said that 80% of the people living in poverty should
have their standard of living raised. What's happening in this
country looks, to me, like it's getting worse.
I
know I'm not alone, proverbially. The unemployment ratio has grown.
The part-employment
has grown hugely! ABS
(Australian Bureau of Statistics) said that the unemployment
percentage was 5.8%, and the “labour
underutilisation” (part employment) is up to 14.4%.
Female underutilisation has increased to 16.8%. In February,
according to them, the participation rate remains at 64.6%,
employment increased, but so did unemployment. By 5,200
nationally.
The protest is also
reacting as a result of the penalty wages change; perhaps you needed
to be aware of what the Commission said about this. I absolutely
disagree with what they did, and I object to how they turned down the
submission by the unions. For me, unions are extremely important to
many “normal” workers, because that's how we got to where we
were/are. Have a read of this link.
Mining
is a huge protest, especially Adani mining which is setting up in
Queensland, with a port into the reef area (Abbott Point). That is
absolutely unreal, yet the government – and the Qld government
state government – will
give Adani $1 billion.
Right now Aus doesn't even make a profit on whatever fossil fuel we
are selling! ABC's PM program on Wednesday 22nd
March said that Adani protest groups were “vow[ing] to
launch mass protest against mining giant Adani.” Perhaps they'll be
separate from today's protest – but I don't think they will start
separately. I've walked in their protests before.
Within this
country, right now, there is far too much communication:
“misunderstandable” communication, “fake” news, long
articles, short articles, “shares” throughout media, Twitter,
Facebook, too many groups who oppose whatever the government does.
Too many people have stopped reading anything, because they can't
understand it – or politics turns them off. Most of those people
won't go to the protest today, or any other day. But every government
action hits them. I don't know “rich” people; I do know
many beneficiaries. I didn't choose where I am. I didn't
choose to have a stroke. I didn't choose to be on DSP,
yet this is my present reality. Whatever is being passed through this
government now will not be in my favour.
Today I can not
communicate with anyone.
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