On Mon, 2017-07-31 at 18:14 +1000, David Lochrin wrote: > The Coalition parties, state & federal, see everything as a business > rather than an investment in national infrastructure or culture. I > believe it's conservative ideology.
The simplest way IMHO to describe the difference between the left and the right is to say that the right believes that if you take care of the money, things will work out OK. The left believes that if you take care of the people, things will work out OK. Both extremes are wrong, but I do agree with the thesis that "the facts have a left-wing bias". Probably because money is a construct and people are real.[1] There must be some reason why less than 10% of American scientists are Republicans :-) Regards, K. [1] cf Douglas Adams (misremembered I'm sure) "most solutions offered were based on the movements of little green pieces of paper, which was strange because on the whole it wasn't the little green pieces of paper that were unhappy." -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A Old fingerprint: E00D 64ED 9C6A 8605 21E0 0ED0 EE64 2BEE CBCB C38B _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
