You can pay for
school but you can’t buy class
-Kanye West
While we may snigger or smirk at the sight of an Ed Hardy
laden, southern cross tattoo toting, midriff bearing [sadly, male and female],
proud public displays of ugg boot lovin’, year 9 dropout [because school
“wasn’t for them”, we should also be wary of the increasing phenomena of, what
I proclaim as; the Cashed Up Bogan’.
[For definition of a 'Bogan':http://www.bogan.com.au/definition/]
Similar to the burgeoning middle class of pre-revolutionary
France, we should be cautious of the [often misguided, or just plain ignorant]
actions of many of this societal faction. While many do work hard to further
their own, or offspring’s education and general cultural awareness, many others,
consider their accelerated gain of fortune as the epitome of success and encourage
others to follow their lead. They consider their twice-annual trips to Bali
[mainly residing in prominently Australian nightclubs, drinking Cruisers and
slabs of Bintang] and their sprawling mansion in the outer suburbs with a
smorgasbord of ‘hotted up’ Holden
Commodores as proof of why education and just plain common sense is not
necessary for monetary gain, because that’s obviously the only indicator of success…
We could just let them be in their blissful ignorance, the
trouble really lies when they delve into deluded Leninist political
consciousness. Before reading and, better yet comprehending, policies of Australian
political parties, they’ve already slapped on a ‘fuck off we’re full’ [I kid
you not, I’ve personally witnessed] on an aforementioned Holden Commodore and
have already made Andrew Bolt [charged with breaching the racial discrimination
Act] their martyr. An example of this largely ignorant political activism came
at their pilgrimage to Canberra, encouraged by the [tabloid] Herald Sun, self-proclaimed
shock jock Alan Jones and unfortunately a potential prime ministerial candidate-
Tony Abbott [who I quote ‘will do anything to get into power’ and whom ‘we
cannot trust everything he says because he often makes mistakes in the heat of
the moment’]. Here at the mecca of Australian politics, unlike our predecessors
who perhaps came here to rally against the Vietnam War or South African
apartheid, here our delightful friends chanted and held up placards stating
‘burn the witch’ and ‘ditch the bitch’. Ahh nothing like a bit of degrading the
prime minister through rhyme to inspire me to join these crusaders.
So while it is entertaining for us to identify the obvious
techniques employed by journalists in our national and state wide newspapers
[read as ‘tabloids], we must remember that not everyone passed [or even made it
to] year 12 language analysis. While we must accept these people in their
‘going out trackies’, be happy that at least their not on welfare and embrace
their willingness to engage in politics, we need to be careful of their misguided
involvement in the political arena.
AA (The Younger one), ed. AA
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