by Jim Ball | Jun 2, 2018 | Blog, Cultural Relativism, Culture, Random Notes, Society, Society and culture |
Perhaps I’m becoming something of a dinosaur but as sweary and as fruity in language as I can be, I do have limits and believe in time, place and occasion. And never to be worn as an adornment. Walking around Kylemore Abbey outside Galway, in Ireland, which houses a...
by Jim Ball | May 1, 2018 | Australian History, Blog, Culture, Culture Wars, Cutlture Wars, Society |
The Long March continues — ’…The disfiguring of Captain James Cook’s statue with painted slogans in Sydney last year was not, after all, a criminal act of historical illiteracy, or so we’re being asked to believe. It was a gesture of resistance intended to...
by Jim Ball | Apr 19, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Education, The Holocaust |
There’s the problem right there as the dumbing down continues unchallenged and is all but complete. And we all thought the Pink Floyd song, Another Brick In the Wall was just a classic hit —- ‘…We don’t need no education, We don’t need no thought...
by Jim Ball | Apr 19, 2018 | Bella d’Abrera, Blog, Culture, Culture Wars, Cutlture Wars |
This is an absolute must read as Dr Bella d’Abrera peels back the layers of the cultural onion. The idiocy of cultural competence “..A conference held last week by the University of Sydney’s taxpayer-funded National Centre for Cultural Competence has proven...
by Jim Ball | Jan 22, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Modern Life, The West |
Where it reads America, read Australia or in fact the entire Western hemisphere…. “..If there is a single problem with our lives today, it is the breathtaking shallowness of modern life. We seem infatuated with grade-school gossip and a breathless yearning for...
by Jim Ball | Nov 12, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Death of the West\, Remembrance Day |
It is absolutely the best thing I’ve read in a long time. Brilliant. And again the people who need to read it, won’t. “….On this Remembrance Day 99 years later, recall that some 750,000 British soldiers, marines, and sailors were killed in WWI; nearly 400,000...
