AFL Footy legend Ron Barassi shows what it is to be a man

Ron Barassi, fans and expert commentators agree, is one of the all-time greats of Australia's indigenous football code, Australian Rules Football. Ron was also an outstanding coach whose success was importantly due to the loyalty and discipline he could instil in his teams. He is now a sought after commentator on football matters. In this last role (the one I am most familiar with, having grown up in a non-AFL state) he behaves with dignity and generosity, remaining self-effacing about his national status as football legend.

On News Year's Day, shortly after midnight, he tackled a man in busy night-life St Kilda who, in total disregard for the crowded surroundings, was bashing a woman. I've watched the security vision a number of times and although it was initially reported that Ron was bashed and kicked by the young man he tackled, it seemed evident to me that he was set upon by a number of men.

Imagine it: 72-year-old Ron has tackled a young man for bashing a 43-year-old woman (how cowardly is that?), the young man gets up, bashes him and then he and he mates set about putting the boot in. What sort of men are these? The short answer is that they are of the masculine sex, but they are not men in the full sense of the word. They are an extremely corrupt form of masculinity.

I have written about the "feral male" issue a number of times (the links are below). Fifty years of social change in Western Society has spawned a class of violent young men who have no moral consciousness to speak of. Regular visitors to this site will know that I have no doubts about the origin of the problem. Ron Barassi's fearless defence of the woman and his comments when interviewed about the bashing exemplify and support my thesis, about which I have spoken in some detail in a previous comment. The Herald Sun reported his reaction in 3 January report:

Barassi, who was yesterday nursing an injured shoulder and some bruising, said it was up to parents and community leaders to eradicate today's culture of thuggery.

"It's just something that today's teachers and today's parents and the education system need to talk about: you can't hit women, you can't belt kids, you don't kick people while they are on the ground," Barassi said.

"They need to know that these things are just wrong."

Ron is reflecting the attitudes that most people shared until the Sixties generation of leftist radicals high-jacked Western Society and turned our moral and political organisation on its head. As I say, I have written about this in previous comments. There will be no solution to the extreme problem of the feral male, not only in Australia but in all liberal democratic societies (The Netherlands is actually worse than Australia) until the education and discipline of young men is taken out of the hands of people totally unsuitable (especially feminists and homosexual activists) and returned to the jurisdiction of educators who know what being a man is about.

The Herald Sun report in which Ron Barassi's comments appear is headlined: Deputy PM Julia Gilliard leads condemnation of street thugs. Such a headline and Gilliard's comments are a manifestation of the Orwellian world we live with all its sick fantasies, its PC Newspeak, and the arsonist parading as the fire brigade.

Julia Gilliard is a woman of the hard-left who would not be out of place in a radical lesbian collective. What a display of lying hypocrisy to hear her talking about "working families" and traditional family life as if she were the little housewife in the typical bourgeois family whose structure she and her fellow ideologues have nothing but contempt for. They will never say that straight-out, of course. The ignorant community of ordinary people has to be manipulated in the direction of their ideological world.

It is totally consistent with Gilliard's materialist worldview that she says that much is being done by the Government to reduce alcohol consumption in order to curtail the violence. You see, for her there is no objective moral scheme and the prescriptions it has for the proper organisation of society. For her and her class, society and its political structure is originated by an act of will of the "people" (in reality, the will of a restricted political class) and maintained by environmental pressures. Ron's solution is to educate young men to a sense of the moral order of things - that men bashing women and kicking a man down are wrong. Gilliard's solution is to do a bit of social manipulation of people who have no good reason to think some actions are intrinsically wrong.

Today's Herald Sun editorial is on the right track in its final paragraph, but the goal is over the horizon.

In an era long gone, churches, parents and teachers dutifully taught young people how to act in the community; that respect for others was mandatory in civilised societies.

Perhaps the time has come for today's parents to review what they tell their children about good and bad, right and wrong. And for schools to consider providing secular teaching on moral issues.

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Read The Herald Sun's reports:

Barassi Saved my life
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24872760-661,00.html

We want our streets back
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24872758-2862,00.html

Leaders back initiative
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24871803-24218,00.html

Deputy PM Julia Gilliard leads condemnation of street thugs
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24866855-661,00.html

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