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Lapun Ozymandias's avatar

It is really quite sad that this journalist died so young. We don’t know what motivated him to so viciously and unthinkingly target Novak Djokovic. He may have seen Djokovic as an easy mark because such attacks fit closely with one of the worst characteristics of the Australian cultural character – what Australians describe as “The Tall Poppy Syndrome” – that is, someone to be cut down. This moral deficiency encourages jealousy of the more successful in Australian society - and it is not confined to the lower socio-economic strata because so-called ‘professional’ occupations indulge in it too. It is a cultural attribute believed to have been inherited from Australia’s beginnings as a penal colony for the unwanted criminal classes of 18th & early 19th century Britain. Journalists and politicians in particular indulge in such smears if they see career advantage in it.

The Australian media at the time of the 2022 Tennis Open was awash with cruel and scornful commentary about Djokovic, and what was done to him by the incompetent and scientifically illiterate politicians of the Australian Government was immoral. I suspect that the minority group made up of scientifically-aware and commonsense sceptical voters (10% ??) who were really angry about the unconscionable ‘vaccine’ mandates and other heavy-handed social controls that were being imposed may have been one of the reasons why that Government lost office in the 2023 federal elections – but I don’t think that the political losers have even begun to understand that fact.

Australia is an isolated country, and its politicians are essentially driven by the false reality that the corporate media constructs for Australian media consumers. The result is that the incestuous Australian political class is conditioned to uncritically accept that all those talking heads on the Fake News channels every night are ‘experts’ who actually know what they are talking about. The result of this was the confected outrage about Djokavic’s ‘vaccine’ status.

As far as I am concerned the most culpable actors in the whole Covid/Covid-Vax disaster of the last four years have been the contemptible people who work in the corporate media. It was their job to expose what has been going on – not lie to us. They betrayed us all. I don’t know how the fools in the media can look at themselves in the mirror. They must be driven by gross avarice as well as stupidity.

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The Green Hornet's avatar

Karma and schadenfreude in a nice tidy package.

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