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The Molly Conspiracy

By Richard Castles - posted Thursday, 5 October 2006


No.11: The Dismissal. Executed by John Kerr, coordinated by the CIA (the same agent, incidentally, who picked up Harold Holt off Portsea nine years earlier).

I think you get the picture. It’s as if by casually slipping in a simple episode of A Country Practice among these massive conspiracies, they (that is, who ever is really pulling the strings at Channel 7) were hoping we’d hardly even notice the unanswered questions surrounding Molly’s so called death.

Of course, there is another possible explanation for the conspiracies surrounding all these memorable moments. It’s that what makes them so memorable in the first place is that they were all shocking, tragic, sudden, unexpected, strange or awe-inspiring - the “where were you when” factor.

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The first stage in psychologist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grieving is shock and denial. When we are hit by something difficult to process or accept, like the death of a loved one, a traumatic encounter, or even something awe-inspiringly rare, like the moon landing, our immediate response is generally something like “It can’t be true, can it!”

Our minds then busily go about trying to work out ways to avoid the truth, to make it some other way, as it were. Terrorists and madmen couldn’t possibly want to just kill us. Natural disasters can’t just happen. Superstars and soap stars don’t just suddenly die. The argument is that they do.

But, then again, that’s exactly what they want you to think, isn’t it. Molly Jones is alive and well, I say, and living in Burrigan. We’re through the looking glass here, people.

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