While reflecting on various matters recently, a moment of inspiration struck me with the words to articulate a growing and disturbing trend.
Simply put: We have, for some time now, been in an era in which the mainstream media, moral police and politically correct social media mobs have established a status quo of inverted merit. The most able and competent seem to be the open target of criticism and hate mobs. The most pathetic, counter productive and ideologically vile elements are lauded and paraded.
In this status quo, to be criticised is a backhanded compliment. To be lauded is a stamp of vileness.
That’s why the ABC provides the Zaky Mallahs with a voice and a platform.
That is why The XYZ has risen up to diametrically oppose this perversion.
The XYZ asks you to talk about this with your friends. We ask you to share with us examples of the untouchable idiots.
A parting thought from Yeats:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
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