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Metta Bhavana, aka "Someone."

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5 Apr

Let's discuss empathy. Empathy is hard wired into human beings. It's the result of our evolved societal bonding where we survived because we recognised mutual advantage in pair bonding, cooperative child raising and forging close interpersonal connections.

"Scientists recognise two kinds of empathy -- affective empathy and cognitive empathy -- and studies strongly suggest that babies experience both." parentingscience.com/do-babies-feel…

Newborns routinely become distressed when they hear other newborns cry. "Babies cry more when they hear the cries of a real infant" (Martin and Clark 1982; Sagi and Hoffman 1976; Simner 1971).

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@MettaBhavana1

4 Apr

"Journalism" - not Twitter - invented the pile on, the public smear campaign, the rumours exaggerated as fact, the facts ignored, the appeals to primitive tribalism, racism and xenophobia, the invasions of privacy, all while claiming the status of a unique moral correctness.

Murdoch and the News Of The World didn't invent that kind of toxic business model. It has been a low bar for over a century. Ask Lindy Chamberlain. Ask anyone "of African appearance" in Melbourne, ask any Muslim, look at the front pages and editorial lines run by Murdoch.

Meanwhile, even as they claim unique moral correctness for their every action, some of them pursue and attempt to smear anyone they deem alien to their editorial stance, or who threatens their relationship with the regime they are cleaving to at the time...

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3 Apr

"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." According to Gloria Steinem, Irina Dunn,Australian educator, journalist and politician, coined the phrase 1970 as a student at the University of Sydney, paraphrasing the old maxim, 'Man needs God like a fish needs a bicycle.'

Irina Dunn concurs: "I scribbled the phrase on two toilet doors, would you believe, one at Sydney University where I was a student, and the other at Soren's Wine Bar at Woolloomooloo, a seedy suburb in south Sydney. The doors, were already favoured graffiti sites."

'A needs a B like a C needs a D' was well-established. The Hartford Courant, December, 1898: "[Aragon, Spain] didn't need an American consul any more than a cow needs a bicycle; for it had no trade with America, and no American tourist ever dreamed of stopping there."

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5 Feb

"Philip Lowe, the Governor of the Reserve Bank, is trying to get wages up, but he can’t. Prime Minister Scott Morrison could get wages up but he is so deep in the habit of suppressing them that it’s an addiction."
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Alan Kohler absolutely spot on here. Tanya Plibersek:

Philip Lowe is an economist with a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has been at the Reserve Bank for 40 years; Scott Morrison is a politician with a background in tourism marketing.

The economist now understands that you don’t get more jobs by cutting wages, but you do get economic wellbeing from higher wages, and you get those by increasing employment, so focus on jobs, not wages.

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@MettaBhavana1

25 Jan

I just want you to have look at recent articles by James Massola from The Age. Is there an editorial pattern here? theage.com.au/by/james-masso…

1. "How safe is Anthony Albanese and how long does he have as leader?" Pic of Albo alone.
2. In an 'exclusive' interview "Frydenberg flags multibillion-dollar boost from faster vaccine rollout after year of economic pain." Pic of Frydo with cute kids AND A PUPPY!

3. "Shorten takes a swipe at Albanese’s ‘tiny’ policy agenda" Pic of Albo frowning at an out of focus Bill who is looking away.
4. "‘He has sent signals’: Major parties prepare for spring 2021 federal election." Pic of PM grinning at a baby he is holding, which is also grinning.

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23 Jan

Those bothered by Margaret Court's views should perhaps reflect that in Australia's same-sex marriage vote, 38.4% of those who voted, chose 'NO.' As Micheal Kirby commented at the time, overjoyed as he was with the 61.6% "Yes," the other 1/3rd were a sobering reality.

It isn't possible to make a simple transposition of stats from one question to other socially regressive attitudes, but it has to be assumed that such reactionary recalcitrance around "progress" might well also apply to attitudes on race, climate, refugees, and so on.

And here we have a PM who knows he has little appeal among "progressives," but must make a majority out of appealing to enough of those in that 1/3rd who share his own regressive and unenlightened views on white colonial history, race, or sexuality.

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