Reference :- Andy Bolt has adopted an impressive angry glare during interviews of late .
Holy cow Andy , poor Josh Frydenberg looked like he would need to freshen his briefs after your last interview . Are you with me ? Sky Reply contributing editor Gabbo ( the aborigine ) laughed his head off so much he accidentally deleted part of his PhD research from his laptop.
He was pretty annoyed with himself , but I reminded him that there are tens of thousands of Aborigines with university degrees, so a few more weeks of waiting before he gets his mortar board and gown won't matter much .
Anyway Andy , stalwart fan though I am , I think you are barking up the wrong eucalypt by calling the "black lives matter "movement rubbish . You are missing the point entirely by not thinking broadly enough . Here at the Sky Reply we espouse the philosophy that no lives matter . We are all just here for the blink of an eye before vanishing . And that applies to entire species , including our own . Several species worldwide will become extinct while I am writing this . And if we succeed in wiping out a few million species along with ourselves over the next century or two , it is of no consequence.
New species will evolve , every bit as beautiful and fascinating as those that exist now . And you never know , there might even be a dominant species with superior intelligence , which would be a great first for the planet . ( Ken junior pictures it with a crown of colorful feathers containing luminescent plastic microparticles. )
So Andy , when I am horrified by a video footage from Georgia that shows an unarmed black man being shot in the back because he fell asleep in his car , this is how I console myself . ( The cops in Georgia must be very twitchy . Possibly because of the escalating coronavirus cases since governor Kemp eased lockdown so his businesses could return a profit . )
I console myself by remembering that we all die one day , including me and you . And whether we are racist smart arses , captains of business , politicians or street sweepers we all get eaten, without malice , by the same lowly worms . Monte ( the motorcyclist ) reckons that is a terrible thought , and says he will get cremated . But Gabbo has pointed out that the soot that blows from the chimney will settle to the ground , and fertilize a weed that gets eaten by a grub , so what's the difference ?
Are you still with me Andy ? Philosophy might not interest you much , since it is more suited to the sensibilities of socialists than the captains of industry . And what made Gabbo laugh ? Well he is a very widely read young lad , and the lines from two of his favorite poems entered his thoughts while you were huffing away like an asthmatic who cant afford his salbutamol puffers . He recited the lines between bouts of laughter . To get the full effect , I suggest watching yourself on You tube while you read them . It is hilarious . And here they are .
" Half sunk , a shattered visage lies , whose frown
And wrinkled lip , and sneer of cold command
Tell that the sculptor , well those passions read
Which yet survive , stamped on these lifeless things . "
Haha , Gabbo kept calling you Ozymandias , but then became more philosophical , and consoled himself regarding the inevitability of death . Yours in particular , since the grim reaper will encounter your name on his list in but a few short years. This is what he consoled himself with .
Into this universe , and why not knowing ,
Nor whence , like water willy -nilly flowing ,
And out of it , as wind along the waste ,
I know not whither , willy-nilly blowing .
An educated chap like yourself , Andy , ( despite the lack of gown and mortar board ) will readily recognise the authors , and know that one was Iranian .
An appreciation of the sublime features strongly among people all races , though not all ideologies .
Your comrade , Ken
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