M-TH: The Fourth Way (or the first, without make-up)

[Rob Schaap]

G'day Thaxists,

Escaped the heat this arvo by bolting into the newsagents.  Saw a mag on the
rack called The Australian Rationalist, which I usually take, but the pub
was next door and I'd resolved to spend my fiver there.  Until that is, I
saw the cover.  For there, writ large, was as neat and succinct a summary of
the tide of human progress as I'd ever seen.

'ABOLISH 'WELFARE DEPENDENCY' ... REINTRODUCE SLAVERY!

Well, all thoughts of beer (well, nearly all) left my mind as I chucked my
fiver at the counter and made for my shed for an enlightening read.  I
wasn't disappointed, either.  'The Third Way' excoriated by a page, the
proposal ably defended with a few deft references to current 'issues' in
another, namby pamby objections demolished by the third, the teleology of
hegemonic logic proclaimed 'free market barbarism' by the fifth, and a
compelling case closed by the sixth.  

Lovely.

And co-authored, I notice only now, by one Ian Hunt, articulate critic of
Australian education policy, polished philosophical pedagogue ... and
Thaxist.

Good on ya, Ian!

Cheers,
Rob.


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