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David Moss has cut through some bull: <snip respectfully> > Rationality can do nothing to prevent this panic from running its > All we can do is recognise the process and take it into account in our This "moral panic" has been specially engineered to push everything What is sad about all of this is that the indigenous population does Ördög (The friendly Hungarian Devil in service of aus.politics and
> We are currently in the throes of another moral panic, this time centred This latest issue of "moral panic" is quite a few degrees worse than
> on indigenous child abuse.
> course. Once a moral panic has begun it takes on a life of its own. It
> is unstoppable once underway.
> own thinking.
those that have been conjured before.
Child abuse has a greater success to enrage people because it is
digging a lot deeper into peoples' minds playing on the instinctual
urge to protect the young and to deal with centuries long conditioning
which effects our general attitudes to sexual behavior on a very basic
level.
into the background ensuring the reelection of the present government.
> Hopefully enough people will keep cool heads during the panic to steer I wish I could share your optimism.
> the situation toward an desirable and achievable outcome.
> The politicians who started the panic hope to surf the wave of public Remains to be seen. Would be nice to be able to predict the future at
> opinion to electoral success later this year. are they skillful enough
> to stay on their boards, or of they will be displaced by more skillful
> surfers.
least on the short term.
> We can only hope the less fortunate members of our society, those in the Well, there are always losers when certain unscrupulous bullies in our
> bottom socioeconomic levels, are not too badly injured as they are
> scraped across the moral coral in the backwash.
society decide to satisfy their ambitions (yet again) at a cost to the
rest of the population.
have quite a few problems which need urgent attention. Yet instead of
a problem solving we will see meaningless sacrifices on the altar of
political zealotry and ideological bullshitting.
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