A beautiful if timid reading from Susan Fealy yesterday at the Dan O’Connell Hotel in Carlton. Delicate poetry attempting to find a balance between events and effect and affect. And the risk was to attempt this in a pub with some of the audience and open readers unreconstructed, alcoholic male dinosaurs stuck in the midst of illusion that drinking yourself stupid and then making chauvinistic, unenlightened commentary might contribute to a fantasy that they are good poets. It does not.


However Susan’s reading saved itself by teaching for those who were prepared to learn, the lesson that thoughtful self-reflection offered up in reverbent imagery can lift us all to a different level and make us glad we went there.

Am I just naive, cheeky and silly to think IT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA TO BUILD NUCLEAR REACTORS ON A GEOLOGICAL FAULT LINE ????


Perhaps we could ask the UN to formulate the first universal international law to say that it is not allowable to build Nuclear Reactors on a geological fault line

Yes, the Japan news is terrible – and made worse by the way the Japanese do business with each other – the bureaucrats in the power company will lie to the government (so as not to lose face) and then when another explosion happens they will apologise and promise that they will not let another one happen and then it will and so the process goes on – it’s a terrible process for transparency in government. In the old days finally the bureaucrats would have committed suicide – but these days they will put thousands of lives at risk in the process. It’s essentially cultural and very ingrained but in the current situation it is incredibly unhelpful and a disaster in so many more ways than one. Makes one pale and shaky to think about it.


P.S. The shortsightedness and inadequacy of organisations like the APS in fostering a cringing dependence on Americanised kindergarten psychology like CBT is revealed in how it fails to understand the psychology of culture (See below). Only a Psychoanalytic approach through a lens such as that provided by Wilfred Bion could be of any help here. Of course the stupidity of the APS has devalued if not virtually eliminated such knowledge from our learning and culture

Lyndon Walker Poetry reads 'Compassionate".mp4