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6 February 2011
A change of direction - a return to my undertaking
The outcome of the 2010 Australian federal election - the apotheosis of fifty years of social decay in the form of Prime Minister Julia Gillard - left me so dispirited that I am now overcome by feelings of deadening futility whenever I sit before the computer to make a comment on Australia's course of self-destruction. Australia's evident determination to destroy itself is reflected in most Western countries. The West is like those often observed pilot whale pods that are determined to beach themselves despite furious efforts to turn them around and guide them into safer waters.
More than sixty years ago Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest serving prime minister, formed the existing non-Labor/anti-socialist groups into the one political party in a bid to combat insidious philosophical and political movements whose fanatical adherents aimed at nothing less than a complete re-organisation of Australian state and society. That re-organisation was to mirror the glorious triumph of like-minded radicals in Russia, China and Eastern Europe, a reorganisation that sent 100 million people to their deaths.
There is so much evidence for the aims and subversive actions of Communists and other like-minded Marxist individuals and groups that none but the helplessly indoctrinated would dare publicly to deny that evidence. Some of the most compelling evidence has surfaced in recent years, particularly in the reflections and memoirs of key communist players of the time. The Family File by Mark Aarons (reviewed in Quadrant) gives an inside look at the ideological madness, subversion, and betrayal of a family dynasty of communists.
Menzies succeeded in holding the ramparts against the enemy for sixteen years, while presiding over a healthy cohesive confident society whose material welfare was continually improving. But even on the eve of his retirement from politics there were signs that those forces, blocked politically in the public square, were already burrowing like bush ticks deep into the healthy organs of our society. Their poison continued to flow throughout into the extremities until we now have an unmarried deliberately barren feminist prime minister living in the prime minister's residence with her divorced paramour. We have a prime minister whose career has had her at the forefront of hard-left politics and now pretending with breath-taking hypocrisy to be the guardian of Australia's 'hard working families'. We have a lying leftist prime minister forming a coalition with the fascist left. We have a hard-bitten member of the fascist left in the House of Representatives. Who would have thought that a Stalinist would get into the senate when, in contrast with Menzies' time, we now know what horror the communist regimes were guilty of?
I have made many comments about this state of affairs, so much so that I feel I am beginning to repeat myself - and serve up stale writing. It is time to have a break from the blogging and return to what has always been the writing format of choice: book writing, particularly fiction.
At the moment I have three books in various stages writing: Edmund Burke: Knowing and Reasoning in Politics (a refining and updating of my MA philosophy thesis); the first chapter of a childhood memoir, Me and Pete: Recalling a Fifties Childhood; and three chapters (30,000 words) of an untitled novel that is a rough modern parallel with Jane Austen's Persuasion. There is also the third book in the Winterbine Trilogy (in my head) that readers of the first two books are continually asking me about.
It is time to exercise a bit of self-discipline and concentrate on honing the format of writing I like best. I will finish the books I have already begun. I will have to exercise self-discipline because it is easy for me to get carried away with ideas that suddenly strike me, and to respond to the daily provocation in the media. But the threat of stale repetition in my commentary gives determination.
For a number of reasons the book that I will give priority is the childhood memoir. One important reason is that my memoir will serve as a starting point and foundation for the novels to come, which will be autobiographical to different extents. Indeed, the social and political issues I have dealt with in my comments appear in a different form in my fiction writing. They are the same issues.
If the urge to comment on political events and the outrages of the dominant political class gets to me at times, the comment will appear in current comments.
When I began my blogging back in 2002, the conservative forces in Australia were relatively restrained. It was clear that the tag 'conservative' acted like a curse, in some cases meaning social ostracism, in others professional death. That is no longer the case, although marginalisation is almost certain in some professional areas, particularly education. There are now powerful conservative voices in the media and politics. Although the fascist left predominates as a class, they can no longer go their way with impunity. Among those powerful voices are the following that often reflect my own views. I highly recommend them.
http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/
On a further note, I intend to finish the pages on Burkean Conservatism, but this will most likely happen when I am preparing 'Edmund Burke: Knowing and Reasoning in Politics'.
Comment: gerard@gerardcharleswilson.com
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