Friday, September 15, 2006

What becomes of Young Liberals when they grow old

It is very easy to argue something from a nice comfortable distance, like palestine vs isreal. But it may not be wise, this is what I woke up to this morning: '...Menze are you calling me a dole bludger? answer the fucking question? just because I don't earn much and get support I'm a dole bludger.' I was confused to say the least, I thought I was listening to SYN and suspected one of my housemates of retuning my radio during the day though they'd have to be game to step into my room in its current state.
But it was SYN, the great thing of course about SYN is choice, kids push the buttons they can make a show what they want it to be and you'd be surprised how often that doesn't include the shit other stations may push on people. But it has it's downfall when it comes to young liberals that all they want to create with their youthfull energy is some bullshit talkback show during the graveyard shift on SYN.
One group I am not afraid of is the young liberals, a story. I was walking through the melbourne uni campus which is odd because I have never been a student there. I ran into vaggy a friend I have not seen in a long time and at that time had also not seen in a long time. People were gathered around because of the nelson review or some shit. Anyhoo I asked vaggy what he was up to and he replied 'wanna punch a young liberal, what a pack of cocksuckers' or someshit to that effect.
And it's true, I mean at the time of the nelson review we also had the pending iraq invasion and like most educated people at the time you just sat back and watched with powerlessness as the US administration rolled lazely into a war we never had any prospect of winning and no justification whatsoever. Infact Bill Hicks ripped into the first gulf war so insightfully that it really was a case of fucking up twice in the exact same way.
So what makes young liberals fucking tick?
I mean they won't be of any use to anyone in the future because our exorbitant debt driven economic growth and underpinning resource economy is due to fall apart along with the liberals current style of politics designed to retain power on an election by election basis. That's not to say I'm a fan of the Labour party, I would be hard pressed to ever think of a life as a private citizen that wasn't more attractive than public servant so getting politically affiliated has little interest to me.
But young fucking liberals? what the fuck?
The dude who had called himself menzies was just moronic, he offered the angry caller I woke up to a 'way out' which consisted of 'do you really want to start this arguement? because I will rip shreds out of you.' threatening way out. Except a student that contributes nothing productive to the economy and drains his parents disposable income cant really talk about dole bludgers because they concentrate the 'burden' of inaction on a particular family. That is I am assuming if 'menzes' didn't invent some phantasmical patent of such value to society he could now kick back and feel free to judge.
After cutting off the caller and playing a classic song that was the themesong to reagans discrediting of socialism via the tearing down of the berlin wall. (Something David Hasselhoff has possibly recieved more credit for than US foreign policy) menzes proclaimed to be frustrated with the last caller and the 'stupidity of the arguement'
which I read as 'the fact I was scared and my balls shrank up because I don't really argue I just dogmatically recite shit I've heard my wealthy parents say' and in melbourne I've noticed you get a different type of wealth to ballarat. In ballarat the wealthy kids might have got dropped off in slightly better cars and worn oakley's still tools but hey at least they had to intermix with reality. Here you don't get that, you get people that have never met someone who voted for labour.
So when you come up against someone who lives your arguement and feels passionately on the other side and exposes your naive assumptions that 'people should just get a better job' your balls shrink up and you feel impotent and stupid and afraid.
What I find young liberals don't seem to get is that once or twice a year the news show a story of some member of the public getting angry, throwing an egg or booing and jearing a polly.
They don't show the fact that almost every politician wherever they go that's proximate to the public is accompanied by a bevvy of security guards at all times. Because some of the decisions they have to make will be unpopular.
Young liberals are of no use even to the liberal party itself. They have already put themselves in the 'crazy' department amongst their peers, are generally not likeable enough to ever run for a seat and their recitation of dogma means they probably are never in contention to advance enough to get some exposure to policy making and influence public opinion.
So why the fuck do they do it? It's ghetto gang mentality. The simplicity of fucking not having to think, you can simply tow party line. I cunt fucking stand people who don't argue, but just recite shit. it's like thinking you can be a chess champion by memorising a whole bunch of moves. The major chess champions look at the board in general and only think in terms of the next couple of moves.
Chris Rock summed up the gang mentality best 'what kind of person has made up their mind before they've even heard the issue.' which is a young liberal.
I imagine when a Young Liberal grows up less people lisen to them than now. Or they work low class jobs and hate arabs.
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