You nail it when you describe inequity as architecture, built choice by choice until it feels inevitable. I keep wondering, though, whether the real rot is structural or cultural. Are we trapped by the machinery itself, or by the national story that insists poverty is a moral failing and profit a virtue?
You say what’s missing is will, but I’m not sure will exists without imagination. Maybe the bigger collapse is imaginative. We’ve forgotten how to picture a different economy that values people over property.
Do you see anyone, anywhere, able to rebuild that kind of moral imagination, or has it been completely hollowed out by managerial politics, political hacks, gutless wonders and the toxic right that feeds on the wreckage?
Your empathetic, tender, insightful eloquence and the poetry of your vivid description gives back some dignity to those whose lives you bring from shadow into fuller humanity. It also balances and deepens your unflinching brutal dissection of structural causes. Sobering and distressing and true and crucial.
…when everyone profits from privilege, property, well-being and parity of esteem. That would be some imagining ... of another kind. Again Daniel you capture our shame and remind us of the randomness of a cosmic accident that had us land where we all did.
This country is rife with inequity and inequality, for sure. It's deliberate too. That's iniquity. Across Australia, boardrooms, cabinets, parliaments and courts full to the gunnels with evil bastards. That's the bit that's hard to change.
You nail it when you describe inequity as architecture, built choice by choice until it feels inevitable. I keep wondering, though, whether the real rot is structural or cultural. Are we trapped by the machinery itself, or by the national story that insists poverty is a moral failing and profit a virtue?
You say what’s missing is will, but I’m not sure will exists without imagination. Maybe the bigger collapse is imaginative. We’ve forgotten how to picture a different economy that values people over property.
Do you see anyone, anywhere, able to rebuild that kind of moral imagination, or has it been completely hollowed out by managerial politics, political hacks, gutless wonders and the toxic right that feeds on the wreckage?
Your empathetic, tender, insightful eloquence and the poetry of your vivid description gives back some dignity to those whose lives you bring from shadow into fuller humanity. It also balances and deepens your unflinching brutal dissection of structural causes. Sobering and distressing and true and crucial.
…when everyone profits from privilege, property, well-being and parity of esteem. That would be some imagining ... of another kind. Again Daniel you capture our shame and remind us of the randomness of a cosmic accident that had us land where we all did.
This country is rife with inequity and inequality, for sure. It's deliberate too. That's iniquity. Across Australia, boardrooms, cabinets, parliaments and courts full to the gunnels with evil bastards. That's the bit that's hard to change.