If Labor win Corangamite in 2019, it won’t be a victory for democracy,
but a complete denial of it.
It’s time to reflect on what’s happening when Lake
Corangamite is no longer the centre of a rural electorate and Colac is now the
entry point to the deep south- the last stop before the border.
Our forefathers throughout history would be aghast at what we have done with the 150 representative areas they agreed to for all of us.
(The Australian electorate consists of 150 divisions )
So how did this sea change happen? A new doctrine was introduced by my generation that was designed to make democracy simpler. The modern progressives among us insisted that democracy should be boiled down to one principle.
Instead of facing the paradox of what we inherited in two houses and the complexing idea of riding representation, the progressive pedants made it all about numbers. If only Hegel/ Marx could see his followers now - choosing quantity over quality.
Without really thinking about it, these blinkered idealists gave us the dominance of the majority and the subjection of the small voice, the city over the country.
This new democratic doctrine has meant, for example, that when you have a problem in your local area, chances are you won’t don’t know which local shire Councillor is there to listen to you and see the problem first hand on the ground.
The simple nonsense of numbers means more and more representatives now represent themselves, and their own interests and ideas, rather than the interests of the people who elect them to work in their own area .Imagine this kind of leadership doctrine in your own home, if you have lots of children
No reason for complacency
If our democracy is to survive and continue to work ( because in a technological society what doesn’t work gets thrown out ) the young people of this country are going to have to insist their parents were wrong, and their grandparents were right .
Our young people will have to take issue with the simple but stupid changes made in my generation to how a democracy is supposed to work.
It’s time to reflect on what’s happening when Lake
Corangamite is no longer the centre of a rural electorate and Colac is now the
entry point to the deep south- the last stop before the border. Our forefathers throughout history would be aghast at what we have done with the 150 representative areas they agreed to for all of us.
(The Australian electorate consists of 150 divisions )
So how did this sea change happen? A new doctrine was introduced by my generation that was designed to make democracy simpler. The modern progressives among us insisted that democracy should be boiled down to one principle.
Instead of facing the paradox of what we inherited in two houses and the complexing idea of riding representation, the progressive pedants made it all about numbers. If only Hegel/ Marx could see his followers now - choosing quantity over quality.
Without really thinking about it, these blinkered idealists gave us the dominance of the majority and the subjection of the small voice, the city over the country.
This new democratic doctrine has meant, for example, that when you have a problem in your local area, chances are you won’t don’t know which local shire Councillor is there to listen to you and see the problem first hand on the ground.
The simple nonsense of numbers means more and more representatives now represent themselves, and their own interests and ideas, rather than the interests of the people who elect them to work in their own area .Imagine this kind of leadership doctrine in your own home, if you have lots of children
No reason for complacency
If our democracy is to survive and continue to work ( because in a technological society what doesn’t work gets thrown out ) the young people of this country are going to have to insist their parents were wrong, and their grandparents were right .
Our young people will have to take issue with the simple but stupid changes made in my generation to how a democracy is supposed to work.
This will mean a new generation will continue their great leadership in focusing on
issues of how sound ecological decisions are made and what structure (however
imperfect ) is still the best form of
government known to anyone ( Churchill).
Until young people resist the simplicities introduced by my generation , the biggest, the loudest and the nosiest will continue to win. Its not natural ,but the naturalistic fallacy at work
Until young people resist the simplicities introduced by my generation , the biggest, the loudest and the nosiest will continue to win. Its not natural ,but the naturalistic fallacy at work
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