Gorgritch_umie_killa

Seriously? Why is this an issue?

Sounds like the coach has a known personal connection with the Korean swimmer, and was showing support and solidarity with his international friends and competitors.

From my reading his behaviour sounds very Australian. And good on him. Sure maybe he could've just wished him well, but in the excitement and business of the day who can blame him for being a little over the top.

We aren't really a country that expresses a win at all costs attitude, but thats the impression i get about the other team members quoted in the article. Their comments seem a bit un-Australian to me.

https://theconversation.com/dont-feel-bad-about-bingeing-tv-humans-have-binged-stories-for-thousands-of-years-231713

https://heraldonlinejournal.com/2024/06/14/just-over-the-horizon/

The articles above inspired me to to meld the two premises in the articles together in the post below. A lunch time read for anyone interested. :)

Australians are a nation of travellers, it's been said that at any one time during the year there are over a million Australians abroad. It's worth noting that it's not said that a good chunk of that cohort are in Bali, our go-to destination of tropical delights!

But what are we doing when abroad? True many spend precious, and too fleeting, moments with distant families, but many are also touring a destination they may have no or minimal familial connection with. I think I have an answer, not the answer, just an answer. And this answer contains an insight into how today we are failing to design and build our own cities to capture the imagination. Bear with me, i'm gona be pulling some long bows on this one.

“Don't feel bad about bingeing TV. Humans have binged stories for thousands of years.” An article offered by Darius von Guttner Sporzynski from Australian Catholic University this week on The Conversation website is a short exploration of the consumption of storytelling.

D. Sporzynski wastes no time dispelling the negative connotations around bingeing. Instead offering an anthropic historical record of the “human desire to be completely immersed in a story.” He lauds bingeing as an act of unrestrained and excessive indulgence. Using examples as far ranging as Palawa Aboriginal (Tassie) oral stories that could refer to events 12,000 years in our pasts to theatre, television, or the moral panics brought on by serialised literature.

Of course, from a certain point of view touring a destination could then also be regarded as a form of bingeing. Certainly experiences in my pre-poll of one, (me), bear out the “unrestrained and excessive indulgence” of touring a destination, my trips to Paris were deluxe all those years ago, thank you for asking. ;) Instead of a piece of art, or literature, or even beer, I suggest we can binge on a destination, in fact why not indulge on whole cities.

Australia might not have fully bingeable cities like Paris or New York, Sydney comes closest (maybe even is), plenty of places around the country have flashes in the pan but fall a little short at the moment. Maybe it's simply due to our country being reasonably young, but I think part of it is the buildings we're constructing in this era. Even the ones where we're trying, for example One Barangaroo, (that big tall new one in Sydney), it's nice, but i'm not sure it adds a great deal to the feel or life of Sydney.

In Western Australia if there's a single destination that has the potential to be bingeable it's Fremantle. Roel Loopers’ Fremantle Herald article, Just Over the Horizon, tells us the city of Fremantle is “embarking on a spatial vision City Plan to shape the future…”

In the article R.Loopers laments sameness, and demands diversity in type, form and use of the buildings developers should be forced to build in the city of Fremantle, stating “level 2 looks the same as level 12, etc and that needs to change.”

He offers suggestions like high rises surrounded by townhouses, single function buildings broken up by different facades, he even suggests the historic Fremantle prison becoming part/neighbouring a mixed use development along with the football field.

It is right to demand this of developers in our cities, especially in those places around our country like Fremantle or Sydney who have the potential to create a touring destination, that, in its discovery and excitement can be a dopamine hit that demolishes the dopamine hits of the latest tv series. But a bingeable city isn't accidentally created, it is demanded and loved.

D.Sporzynski describes “humans desire to escape from reality and engage emotionally with stories.” I say that is what our one million travellers abroad are doing. They are engaging emotionally with far off cities like Paris, London, Tokyo, and of course even our beloved Bali. As D.Sporzynski says, we are developing the 17th and 18th century enlightenment ideal of a critical view of the world through our experiences abroad, but we should take the opportunity now and use our foresight to make our cities bingeable destinations. Sorry developers, concrete and glass boxes aren't enough.

By Gorgritch_umie_killa

The ABC are taking some poorly thought and knee-jerk decisions lately. They instead should take a State-like approach to their decision making.

I mean, management need to treat their tenure as a small period in an organisation that continues forever. A perspective change, hopefully leading to better deliberative decisions.

No need to rush when you have eternity to play with.

Man, first the Stokes Stoush, now the facebook right hook. Twiggys making enemies with all the big media companies.

I haven't read why the public prosecutor isn't pursuing this. I'm sure it'll be some reasonable reason due to some legislation the prosecutors can't get around. Or something to that effect.

But this case seems emblimatic of the corporate geared legislative structure the five-eyes countries citizens have had foisted upon them. Yet again an obviously in the wrong company is walking away laughing as their pockets jingle, while the damage caused by their products to third parties goes largely unrestrained. Do we really want to carry on down this path?

For context this morning i've also been listening to Ralph Nader, so thats where my minds at right now.

Link to the episode, if people want to listen: https://www.capitalisnt.com/episodes/ralph-naders-capitalism

I hope the comet becomes visible

Are these only a WA thing?

Any Eastern states peeps know about these and are able to dispell this notion?

This statement from the article is so poignant, **"I've got a full-time job, you know, I've got a life. I don't want to be spending all my time thinking about this." **

We are obsessed with increasing our productivity in this country. A measure i'm unsure is appropriate, or even directly comparable historically in an economy that has switched from agrarian and closed off manufacturing, to mining and services.

I see the housing system we have as a great example that fails Banerjee and Duflo's second key lesson about improving the lives of the poor.

"the poor bear responsibility for too many aspects of their lives." (Poor Economic, Banerjee and Duflo)

By increasing housing pressure by,

1. Increasing buyer competition for a home,

2. inflating prices in comparison to wages,

3. Rising insurance costs, and now finally,

4. interest rates

we are tamping down on the productive potential of generations of Australians coming through the system.

I am sure, (but have no evdence for this), these generations of people are spending more time, capital, and energy on housing themselves than the generations in later half of the 20th Century. In other words, we are actively making each generation relatively poorer than the last. I think there is a productivity dividend that we are leaving on the table by making housing oneself relatively more difficult.

Excellent interview by Joe Walker with Peter Singer.

A really interesting part towards the end of the interview about Australia's (after colonisation) unique ethics foundations compared to US and UK, and possible reasons for the differences, given the closeness of relations.

If your bored tonight, don't forget Utopia is out, its a documentary about how ineffective our government really is... /s

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/utopia