It is a Boom Time For Values so says the Devine Miss M (third item). And indeed it may be so. But the question that everyone has is what exactly are these values that are booming? Fret not anymore as I shall set you straight.
It is quite simple really. Values are defined as the good old Australian values that we all have valued for years. You see these values in the lives of everyday Australians as they go about their business. These values are self evident and intrinsic in our social interactions. Everyday, our values are confirmed by what we do. Values are simply an extension of who we are and we an extension of our values.
But there are some people who do not value our values. Such people are easy to spot. They are the ones who don’t share our values as I have explained. So carry this piece with you as a daily check list. If you see someone not valuing the values as outlined above please report them to Phillip Ruddock.
I trust that you found this quick explanation of values invaluable.
What are you doing here at this hour posting on L.P. Cronin?! You should be dead drunk back at Parramatta Leagues! God forbid that’s the way I spent September the the past five years (different leagues club though). Now there’s an Australian Value or two that Devine could learn about.
I value your valuable contribution Shaun. (Isn’t it funny how words cease to have meaning the more you repeat them?)
Words that have ceased to have meaning for me are: blame game and finger-pointing!
Interesting meme, Kate.
Words that have ceased to have meaning for me are: mysoginist, xenophobia and racist.
Hmmn. That’s VERY interesting EP, I’d have never thought anyone would have lobbed those particular terms at a sweet little pussy cat such as you. (I think you forgot homophobe as well?)
Personally I’ve lost the ability to parse the words “shrill” and “feminazi” also… so many accusations, so little time!
At least you don’t get “uppity lesbian”, Kate!
It must be said. If someone pointed out to Phillip Ruddock that he is already dead, would he crumble into dust leaving only an Amnesty lapel pin?
Anti-american and politically correct are two other valueless terms.
Not sure Kim. Maybe he is a vampire of the Terry Pratchett type – reformed and off the blood which may explain his wan pallor.
As for you Rex, LP blogging keeps me out of trouble. Of course, if we make the grand final then there will be drunkedness no matter the result.
“But the question that everyone has is what exactly are these values that are booming? Fret not anymore as…”
Bill Whittle’s down those values for our tribe here http://www.ejectejecteject.com/
Definitely not these silly values of another tribe mentioned here http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16573306-23109,00.html
And the member of another tribe begins to see the light here http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Aborigines-must-adapt-Mundine/2005/09/10/1125772718743.html
Oh and helping other tribes who want to share our values, fight off the bad value tribes with their WMD here http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16572948-23109,00.html
Err, hang about a bit. Wasn’t that bad tribe who reckon they’ve got the WMD, in the place that supposedly didn’t have any WMD? Wonder where they got them from?
“Values” are Bankrupt as a Moral Language:
Well, sorry to post twice within an hour folks but I couldn’t resist as you’ve hit another of my terminological bette noires!
“Values” said the Canadian philosopher George Grant (1918-1988) are “…an obscuring language for morality used when the idea of purpose has been destroyed – -and that is why it is so widespread in North America.”
The term “values” so deeply ambiguous as to be meaningless as a carrier of objective freight (still valid for merely personal choices such as food preferences) continues to grow and proliferate like the Andromeda strain – - evidently in Australia as well!
We’ve written on “values” as well if you go to the Centre for Cultural Renewal’s website – - excuse me please for another shameless plug!
Best to all, just listening to the last minutes of the Ashes! Sorry Oz.
Iain T. Benson
Barrister & Solicitor
Executive Director
Centre for Cultural Renewal
Ottawa (this written from the Hautes Pyrenees, France, Sept 12, 2005)
Iain B, all you’ve bascally done with that comment is perpetuate the reputation of Canadians as really bloody decent people without an ounce of funk.
So how are the Pyrenees in the autumn. Fohn home yet?
Other sh*te terms:
Unaustralian (means you don’t like america), This country (said with a self-conscious capital T), battlers (evidently people who send kids to 10k a year schools), competition (means annihilation by something larger), free trade (ditto), elites (means underpaid people who are ridiculed and ignored), fair go (a punch in the face behind razor wire), Liberal (throwing left-wing dissenters out of the country) etc etc. Sorry to cover old ground. I’m just being politically correct.
Thanks Nabakov, that must be a compliment. Sometimes the Aussie (you are an Aussie aren’t you?) edge to comments can throw the outsider a bit. Pyrenees in the autumn you ask? Sometimes gorgeous, other times wet. If you want to spend time on your velo going up some of the local Cols as I do, then the rain is, as they say in Oz – - a right bugger. Cheerio.
Iain Benson, your man in the Hautes Pyrenees.
That’s good work there Armaniac – 10 points. Like it.
Welcome!