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When governments, universities and media protect falsehoods instead of facts, deception becomes policy and dissent becomes heresy. Australia is living the consequences.
You can screen luggage, weapons and criminal records. You cannot screen worldviews that rank collective loyalty above individual life - and no amount of security theatre can compensate.
Envy has replaced economics in Australia’s policy debate. Taxing success may feel virtuous, but it steadily corrodes incentives, prosperity and living standards for everyone.
Australia’s politics has elevated compassion over wisdom, optics over outcomes. The result is drift, debt and disorder - and a growing hunger for firmer leadership and moral balance.
Covid reshaped society on a scale unseen since World War II - but instead of sparking cultural transformation, it left fear, obedience, and a troubling silence in its wake.
Schelling saw nature not as object but as subject - a creative force we belong to, not command. His vision may be the ecological imagination our age lacks.
From Janis Joplin’s taste in men to apartheid’s brutality, not all discrimination is the same. So why does modern law treat every private choice as a public offence?
