outback to jungle

Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

how do i justify

vulgar language in my writing? The world, and particularly the Western world has become a more vulgar place. We suffer the tyranny of the majority and sadly in the absence of leadership - which is a contradiction in terms - from the minority, all things decent, honourable, respectable have been rejected by the majority. The Holy has been rejected. Pornography, paedophilia, self interest, self satisfaction, laziness, rejection of community, rejection of standards, rejection of courtesy and manners are the new norms. Sure we are still selectively hypocritical in our values. But when we rejected integrity in our leaders and let them lie about GST, children overboard, David Hicks, Iraq, we said that integrity and standards did not matter.
Following up on the Papience article is this letter to the Post Courier:
"I AGREE with Prof Allan Patience’s comments and, when we look back, PNG was never ready for independence.A few so-called intellectuals pushed for it so that they could gain power to pursue their own gains.No politician will say that we are in a mess, but we must bite the bullet and start again from scratch, even if we have to change our constitution and bring back the foreigners".

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