SECTION FOUR, PART SIX

You Wonder, Why? One of the interesting concepts of the George Orwell novel, 1984, was the efforts at press control as a way of ensuring that the ruling elite had control over the messages being received and discussed by the population. A number of differing causes are captured under the rubric of information supplied to the public. Some where the ruling dogma is to supply as much forward annoncement as possible, as a way of ensuring that expectations are well formed, and that no destabilised misinformation has capacity to built, and create its own life. This is the laudible concept, as theoretically argued by the Fed Reserve, as a way of controlling expectations about the future course of interest rates. Given the seeming consistency of this message, what is probably so surprising is that economic activity has not picked up more quickly. Perhaps, the banks were much more saddled with bad loan structures than became public ( seemingly inconsistent with improved communication? ), or the public does not think trust the Fed's ability to control the outcomes.......utterly reasonable expectation given the arbitrary, and complicit, behaviour of the Fed. But, the case in point, is I am currently viewing the "weekly update" on asylum seeker arrivals...a particularly contentious, and emotional, policy zone in Australia for a number of years. The public now effectively receives no updates, apart from anecdotal improvement in twitter hits, etc. the new government has moved to a no communocation framework, by arguing that all updates, are captured under being "operational issues" and cannot be publically discussed. The military personnell that has been placed in charge, produced one of the most testily ridiculous response to legitimate questions about a further boat in trouble, yesterday. So we have either supposedly lots of information, but this is rubbish. The idea is to supply as little as possible, BECAUSE, ONCE THINGS GET OUT INTO THE PUBLIC, it is increasing difficult to control the subsequent debates, because they take place in too many various media formats to know how the debate is heading. Same with recent news items which, shock horror, say governments spy on each other. The joke is not the spying, or the faux horror that it happens, but that people like Snowden, get pilloried for making these details public. I travel overseas reasonably regularly......i do not need to go to a country which has a dim view of Australia, because of some announcement of spying, which would not be potentially personally affronting, if governments had been honest with each other, and their public. Again, arbitrary decisions made by persons who have impacts on my freedoms, and without either appreciating that it does affect me, and not asking my opinion. Justice and equality require full population support, and acceptance, otherwise there is no framework for the deliverance of equivalence. You have no more right to bully me, than i do to you. If you create an environment where survival of the fittest is the only logiacl operating mode, then you create the framework for an inevitable civil war. Are people too stupid to see the logical extension of their policies?