The Cultural Pulse

[Tom Stuart]

I’ve become somewhat battered by castigates of the chattering class.  While, if I am a part of the chattering class, I would be at the bottom end, I confess (if such a membership is a sin) I to belong to it.  I have come to this conclusion because I seem to be interested in, and hold opinions, that often fit into the categories of the accusers.   As I often am, I am about to be presumptuous.  My hunch is that if I belong to this chattering class then a lot of the people on this list could also be described as fitting the same category.   Though I actually don’t think my membership is such a sin I am anxious that somehow my perspectives are somewhat blinkered and at present I am feeling dearly inclined to ratchet the blinkers back.  I would like to find a place (oh dear … I mean a website, ezine or something similar … is the place I am seeking my answers already denying me of them?… okay, a pub!) where I might discover what really matters to the ordinary Australian. And, by the way, when I look at Jesus and who it was that surrounded Jesus, and to whom he offered his message, who are they in Australian society? (There is a question in there of a particular … is it the blue collar worker that apparently the Prime Minister is pandering too and whose values I detest?  Maybe I can find the same anxieties in them but come up with different responses … hmmm)/   After the furore over refuges, war, a lying *&^% of a prime minister, homosexuality, I just need to calibrate my compass.   Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.milman.uniting.com.au Ph: 6862 5502  Mobile: 0427 625 502 14 Bushman St Parkes NSW 2870   'Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable'. I prefer to die living than to live dying! "War is a poor chisel with which to carve out the future." - Martin Luther King, Jr     I've stopped 121 spam messages. You can too! One month FREE spam protection at www.cloudmark.com

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