Reference :- Contributing editor , Ken junior , whipped up another batch of his special herb cookies . There is nothing like comfort food by a warm fire on a cold night .
while munching away we all got to talking about statues and the pros and cons of pulling them down as an act of protest and whether the protestors had lost their minds and conservatives would never condone such vandalism but then Gabbo ( the aborigine ) pointed out that conservatives were happy to blow up a 46,000 year old aboriginal site which must be worse than pulling down a limestone statue of some slave trader and Ken junior said that speaking of limestone what about the Great Barrier Reef which is a 2300 klm long masterpiece built by coral polyps that is being trashed by big business with barely a second thought and then Monte ( the motorcyclist ) mentioned the WW1 monument sitting in the middle of the Acland coal mine now the entire town has been razed which the local chamber of commerce couldn't give a damn about so why all the fuss about some slave trader statue in Townsville then unless they just hate progressives instinctively or maybe they wouldn't care about the slave trader statue if it was sitting on a million tons of coal it's all so complicated then I said how do we rate the bombing of Dresden at the end of WW2 as an act of punishment since there were lots of statues there with huge significance to the history of western civilization and Monte said that pulling statues down was always a bad thing and I agreed wholeheartedly but then remembered that when I saw the statue of Saddam Hussein toppled I did experience a certain frisson which was very like the one I felt when watching the Nazi symbol being ripped off the Reichstag Building in Berlin so it is all various shades of grey and are we being manipulated and divided by the oligarchs who want us to see everything as black or white so we fight among ourselves and don't notice them making off with most of the world's GDP and Sky News came on and we became a bit paranoid and Andy Bolt was moaning about divisiveness while fueling it further with his usual venom and fanning it with his hands that wave about like Al Jolson in blackface because he might have a couple of ancestral negro slave base sequences in his DNA and Peta Credlin who can't think of much to say these days because everybody is going broke so they aren't interested in her meaningless world of political in fighting was looking more like Morgana le Fay than usual or maybe the sorceress in Snow White and you could almost see the poisoned apple in her hand and Rowan Dean was laughing at us like a blonde Nordic golliwog except he won't tell us about the weather from that part of the world with it's melting permafrost and the record fires and heatwaves and the Alan Jone's zombie had crawled from his media grave but he was listening to a socialist commentator and agreeing with him about the economy as though maybe he was changing his mind about a few basics now that it is too late anyway so maybe if you are evil in real life your zombie comes back as a progressive fortunately Ken junior told us we were all getting paranoid and just because the entire capitalist system is collapsing under the weight of it's own contradictions incompetence and appalling greed that was no reason not to order in a couple of dozen supreme pizzas with garlic bread and that did seem like a great idea now that the cookies were all eaten your comrade ken
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