Policy Bites: Policy Ecleticism and Value Binaries

We agree with:

- Labor on unions

- Liberal on many aspects of economic stimulus (but then - so does Labor)

- Secular party on religion (But we're far more aggressive on this because of the influence of memetic narratives on enforcing duopolistic outcomes)

- Science party on tech

- APWR on war reform @WarPowersReform

- The Republican Movement on getting The Crown out of our government and courts.

We are aware that many Labor voters are Catholic megacultists, and many Liberal voters are Protestent megacultists (The Labor and Liberal parties respectively are also well aware of this). No one ever said politics was simple, nor change easy. Not only should war be decided by parliament plus on line referendum, but no religious or megacult influences can be allowed to impact on strategic and geostrategic decision making. Imaginary friends do not belong at the apex of a military command hierarchy.

Binarie Oppositions

Many of the archaic, and arcane, political and ideological binary oppositions that have prevailed in our society and our government need to be scrapped, or at least recognised for being variously abusive, useless, and invidious. They have become tools for the perpetuation of memetic narratives that enforce a mindless and undemocratic duopoly. It's not even clear, in the light of the prevalence of some of these binaries, if democracy is even possible.

We'll have to get rid of the duopoly to find out! Examples include:

Catholic versus Protestant

And its significant mapping onto Catholic (Labor, significantly) versus Protestant (Liberal, significantly). Australia's history and demographics factor heavily into these divisions.

Socialist versus Capitalist

Both terms have become so semantically overloaded as to be near incoherent in polictical contexts. This is one reason why China's pragmatic, hybrid system - Socialism with Chinese Characteristics - is so strange to us.

Left versus Right It is barely clear to anyone what this means any more. Western econocratic duopolies thrive because of it.

Conservative versus Liberal This is probably even worse than left-versus-right. The Australian liberal party generally (or often) prides itself on its conservative base, but many of its constituents are far from conservative when it comes to dishing out punishment to the vulnerable using an entitled 'holier than though' attitude. They're very unconservative with that (especially if it increases their profits or shareholding.) Many socialists are in fact religious dominionists in disguise, and often Labor - as the flip side of the duopoly - is about cultural ideologies that have little or nothing to do with workers and labor.

Not to mention the fact that megacult liberals are often really only interested in defacto-autocratic, megacult-dominionist outcomes. Moreover, we live in an age where postmodernism and the post truth movement, love them or loathe them, are a reflection and representation of the reality of the failure of our binary oppositions. We have ultra-doctrinaire liberal capitalism, anarchistic capitalism, liberal socialism, socialist anti-revisionism, religious dominionism with and without liberation theologies, megacult dominionism, pragmatic liberal capitalism, economic realism and anti-realism, theocratic and defacto theocratic liberal captialism, Christian socialism... The list goes on.

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