A FLUTED MADNESS IN AN ECHO CHAMBER

Karen Willcocks

They were hostile. Paid to be hostile. Jobsworths without conscience. Driven by greed. Compliance. No special talents beyond conformity. They did what their bosses told them to do. 
Never think the same again, he ordered. 
There were the dogs at bay. New hostiles at play. 
Pit bull.
He assumed they referred to their boss.
The pit bull with lipstick. 
You'll get us all into trouble. 
Well you should leave me alone.
We're wasting our time here.
Tell me about it. 
On and on and on they went. 
He's earnt my respect.
I love you too. 
They laughed and laughed. 
The country burned. 
Not now, you fool. The future broke into the present. It always did. 
The public had been sold a terrible lie. 
Drowning in it. Political correctness? And the rest. 
Suspended. The fight is suspended. 
They came from fear. They came from the future. 
You're the Prime Minister. Can't you stop him?
But they were already spooked. They were leading the country over the cliff edge, and knew in their heart of hearts they had not just been compromised, but were deeply wrong in what they did. Betrayed their country as they spoke. 
It was meant to have a chilling effect. It was meant to shut them up. 
Rubbish. 
These were the ancient ones. 
These were the ones who were fluid in time. 
Open defiance. 
They had the gods, the things you thought were gods, on their side. 
Any sufficiently advanced technology appears as magic. 
Criticise as much as you like. 
They were all caught in echo chambers. Manufactured echo chambers. 
A country betrayed. Truly betrayed.
A patriot, for now all patriots stood on the outside, floated outside a divergent clan. 
He's the most reasonable person I know, but reason has been lost.  Not just echo chambers, a kind of fluted madness. 
Well, whatever comes to mind. I'm standing in for someone. 
They created these bell jars, ice castles, society inside a snow globe.
No one could escape. No one dared. 

THE BIGGER STORY: 

Mark Latham remained, well, off the leash: 

FLASHBACK FRIDAY: THE SKY NEWS SACKING

Twelve months ago, Mark Latham was punted from Sky News, with his contract torn up on-the-spot. Four reasons were given by the CEO Angela Frangipane (pictured below). One of them was Latham's criticism of the head of the Prime Minister's Department, Martin Parkinson, for embracing identity politics.

Frangipane wrote to Latham citing this on-air comment from 26 March 2017: "As for Parkinson, as I've always argued in my Tele columns, identity politics is a divisive and primitive approach that judges people, not on their individual character, work ethic, skills and contribution to community, but on race, gender and sexuality - that is, on the colour of their skin, shape of their genitalia and, if it can be established, who they are sleeping with. Parkinson has announced this policy as part of the 'diversity' recruitment strategy in the Australian Public Service (APS)."

Frangipane said he regarded "the above conduct as inappropriate and misconduct which is adverse to the reputation of ANC (Sky News)". That is, in good part, Latham was sacked for criticising Martin Parkinson's recruitment strategy in the APS. This was deemed as "misconduct".

Later in 2017, a report from within Parkinson's own department showed the APS recruitment strategy to be a joke. The BETA report showed their was no recruitment bias against women, migrants or Aborigines. Indeed, the only bias was against white men. There was no need for a 'diversity' recruitment policy. That is, Latham's criticism of Parkinson had been validated from within Parkinson's own department.

Elsewhere in that Department, Parkinson's staff are responsible for running Australia Day activities and the Australian of the Year awards. Frangipane is the head of the NSW Government's Australia Day committee, putting forward the NSW nominee. He didn't want any criticism of Parkinson (no matter how valid) because of their elite network links, possibly jeopardising this nice little sinecure for Frangipane.

This is how the insider elites work in the Australian political/media scene. They couldn't give two hoots about free speech and accurate analysis and commentary for the public's benefit. It's a self-interested back-scratching society.

Led by idiots like Parkinson and Frangipane.