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The Psyche Transformational Experience in the Cross-Cultural Multi-Pragmatism Liberating self-identifying Body-changing experience as a Mistress in a Harem.
Professor Bunyip has linked a bold essay by
US Colonel Ralph Peters, who put those words on paper almost seven years ago in a longish and prophetic essay entitled, “Constant Conflict”
The above long-winded title for a `Phd’ seems more than plausible in view of what MacQuarrie University (sic) lecturer ( another sic) Nikki Sullivan demonstrated in an article unravelling the mysteries surrounding Michael Jackson and mentions Bush in contrast. On could not begin to commentate on the article without having to rush off and buy a vomit bucket ( so i define my `personal being through consumerism - well, that is better than being a a sicko Oz Prof), so I’ll just quote a couple of ripe passages with thanks to the good Professor Bunyip:
“Jackson is the victim of the domino effect,” she argues. “All of his identities are tied to one another, so because he is racially suspect, therefore he must also be sexually suspect. We make judgements about his behaviour based on personal opinions of what we consider normal and abnormal and for many of us, because our assumptions of masculinity aren’t conventionally associated with nurturance, we can’t begin to imagine that Jackson’s relationship with his, and other children is not abnormal.”
“Many of these journalists, and in particular (British reporter) Martin Bashir, don’t seem to me to be particularly interested in grappling with complexities, contradictions, or questions without answers,” she says. “Rather, each, in their own way, is hell-bent on bringing about the triumph of the just cause he or she has been manifestly upholding from the beginning.”
The type of persecution that Jackson has faced, both from the media and the public, has implications not just for the man himself, but says Sullivan, for society as a whole. In explanation, she points out the disturbing parallels between Martin Bashir’s actions toward Michael Jackson and George W Bush’s toward Saddam Hussein.
“Martin Bashir’s and George Bush’s response to the other have both produced mass hysteria and a fear of difference on the part of people who don’t really know the full story,” says Sullivan. “We live in a world now where there is very little openness, where there is a right way to be and if you don’t conform then you are dangerous. I think it’s very important for Australians to really think about these issues because our media is following more and more in the footsteps of the US, putting people in boxes and then persecuting them in extreme ways.
“Of course we still need to interpret people on many levels and within established norms, if for no other reason than to protect ourselves from harm, but what I want to do is to encourage people to critically analyse the ways in which they label others, and consider why they are feeling that way and thinking those things about that person simply because they look different to what they’ve grown up to believe is normal. If we can let go of the premise that the outside expressions of a person are indicative of what’s inside then we can hopefully put an end to the culture of fear that has been created by the media and government policy of both the US and Australia.”
Now, whether Sullivan believes the crap she wrote, presumably does, and that she is free to publish it or attempt to do so, is one thing. It is another thing when it is at tax payers’ expense and, as with all schools of charlatanism is treated as in the ranks of science and brilliant sound scholarship.There are plenty of rags, much cheaper, not paid out of good ol’taxpayers’ pockets which freely publish such toilet bowl shit.There, let her try that outlet for grubstreet pulp.
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