Comments on: The Costa Diaries http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/ Life, Culture and Politics from BrisVegas Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:17:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Adrien http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210498 Adrien Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:19:35 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210498 Sam - <i>How about “The King and I”?</i> . Now Sam <i>The King and I</i> contains within a brilliant bit of political philosophy. Please allow me to cite it viz geopolitics: <blockquote>Is a danger to be trusting one another, One seldom want to do what other wishes; But unless someday, somebody trusts somebody, There's be nothing left on earth excepting fishes!</blockquote> And of course something the blogosphere seems nary aware of: <blockquote>There are times I almost think nobody sure of what he absolutely know, Ev'rybody find confusion in conclusion concluded long ago. And it puzzle me to learn that tho' a man may be in doubt of what he know, Very quickly will he fight, He'll fight to prove that what he does not know is so.</blockquote> Is a puzzlement. Sam – How about “The King and I”?
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Now Sam The King and I contains within a brilliant bit of political philosophy. Please allow me to cite it viz geopolitics:

Is a danger to be trusting one another,
One seldom want to do what other wishes;
But unless someday, somebody trusts somebody,
There’s be nothing left on earth excepting fishes!

And of course something the blogosphere seems nary aware of:

There are times I almost think nobody sure of what he absolutely know,
Ev’rybody find confusion in conclusion concluded long ago.
And it puzzle me to learn that tho’ a man may be in doubt of what he know,
Very quickly will he fight,
He’ll fight to prove that what he does not know is so.

Is a puzzlement.

]]> By: GB http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210497 GB Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:25:23 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210497 Well, OK then. Game off. Well, OK then. Game off.

]]> By: Ambigulous http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210496 Ambigulous Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:54:08 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210496 GB, I wasn't referring to the rights or wrongs (entirely wrongs if you insist) of elecricity privatisation. cheers GB,

I wasn’t referring to the rights or wrongs (entirely wrongs if you insist) of elecricity privatisation.

cheers

]]> By: Jack Hackett http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210495 Jack Hackett Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:03:24 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210495 He's a Labor rat. Jack He’s a Labor rat.

Jack

]]> By: Sam Clifford http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210494 Sam Clifford Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:11:09 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210494 What will it be called? How about "The King and I"? What will it be called? How about “The King and I”?

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210493 Mark Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:13:31 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210493 No, I don't think so, Maugrim. I was writing for a bit of the paper that had something of a different ideological slant and a different audience - but, even then, I think I might have been a bit too complacent about the costs of writing for the MSM. I've shifted my thinking on all this over the course of the year. I think there is something significant in Costa being trumpeted as "our new columnist" and joining a staple of writers who tend to take a definite line, and who usually sacrifice reasoning for emotive blather. No, I don’t think so, Maugrim. I was writing for a bit of the paper that had something of a different ideological slant and a different audience – but, even then, I think I might have been a bit too complacent about the costs of writing for the MSM. I’ve shifted my thinking on all this over the course of the year.

I think there is something significant in Costa being trumpeted as “our new columnist” and joining a staple of writers who tend to take a definite line, and who usually sacrifice reasoning for emotive blather.

]]> By: Maugrim http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210492 Maugrim Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:07:43 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210492 Mark, my point is even you, at some stage have contributed to a News Ltd paper. Kim is drawing a long bow via her comment. Ipso facto should you then also be questioned/judged for what you did? Of course not. Who Costa writes for should be irrelevant. Mark,
my point is even you, at some stage have contributed to a News Ltd paper. Kim is drawing a long bow via her comment. Ipso facto should you then also be questioned/judged for what you did? Of course not. Who Costa writes for should be irrelevant.

]]> By: GB http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210491 GB Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:19:20 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210491 Ambigulous, I disagree. There has to be passion in politics - and why not passion over pieces of public property worth billions of dollars? But what has keeping electricity in public ownership - a perfectly respectable (mainstream) posistion - have to do with Gulags, show trials, mass deportations, terror famines? Let's have a bit of respect for history and cut out the juvenile stuff. Costa has been trying to excommunicate himself for a long time now. It's his choice to rat on his party. But if he kicks dust in his party's face - a party that has provided him with a very nice pension - why aren't Labor supporters entitled to kick some back? They say you can judge a person by their enemies. Rudd is hated by the likes of Latham and Costa. It's the Keating school of suicidal integrity - they think they're cleverer than everyone else because they've read an entire economics textbook and they think you're not doing your job if you're not driving your party off a cliff. Apparently this first world country with next to no government debt is in such dire straits that it needs constant, emergency "reform". All it does is further consolidate Rudd's hold on core Labor supporters. Ambigulous, I disagree. There has to be passion in politics – and why not passion over pieces of public property worth billions of dollars? But what has keeping electricity in public ownership – a perfectly respectable (mainstream) posistion – have to do with Gulags, show trials, mass deportations, terror famines? Let’s have a bit of respect for history and cut out the juvenile stuff.

Costa has been trying to excommunicate himself for a long time now. It’s his choice to rat on his party. But if he kicks dust in his party’s face – a party that has provided him with a very nice pension – why aren’t Labor supporters entitled to kick some back?

They say you can judge a person by their enemies. Rudd is hated by the likes of Latham and Costa. It’s the Keating school of suicidal integrity – they think they’re cleverer than everyone else because they’ve read an entire economics textbook and they think you’re not doing your job if you’re not driving your party off a cliff. Apparently this first world country with next to no government debt is in such dire straits that it needs constant, emergency “reform”.

All it does is further consolidate Rudd’s hold on core Labor supporters.

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210490 Mark Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:02:07 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210490 As someone who used to write for the Higher Ed section of the Australian very occasionally, but doesn't now? As someone who used to write for the Higher Ed section of the Australian very occasionally, but doesn’t now?

]]> By: Maugrim http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210489 Maugrim Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:57:48 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-costa-diaries/#comment-210489 <b>Kim wrote: You’ve already got News Limited Columnists eating out of your hand (you actually are one too)</b> Where does that leave Mark? Kim wrote: You’ve already got News Limited Columnists eating out of your hand (you actually are one too)

Where does that leave Mark?

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