Who am I?

My sense of self is a linear continuum that extends from deep within myself, up through my being and outside myself to my physical body and social environment and further extending out to encompass geography as well as history because it all is dynamic with a time dimension.

The two directions of this line extend opposite to each other from the central point that is the unity of my total self, but nothing that is not myself.  Each presents a one-sided image of the self, with the two sides being like the two sides of the body or the brain, mirror images of each other, though each independent and not identical in detail.

This line that transcends many orders of magnitude is not an even progression.  Like many physical phenomena, such as the banding of rocks round stars to form planets or the quantum leaps of tiny particles, this dimension has Energy Levels that resonate and form patterns and structures.  These are the various orders of magnitude at which Science finds evidence of a unified structure, usually with random relevance to energy levels at remote orders of magnitude.

Being a bi-directional dimension, perhaps it is better called a bimension.  So many phenomena can approach zero from either direction, but find on close proximity, that when unity is passed in a reducing direction, what might have appeared as a steep decline suddenly levels off and reduces as a decreasing rate so it is impossible to reach zero from either direction in a mathematically asymptotic balanced infinitude.

These two selves are a mental construct, and the phenomenon is probably valid for everyone.  We have an inner self and we have a public self.  Who we are as entities in the world, like the public persona of famous people, is one self and our private lives, especially as lived in our heads, perhaps in the dark, at night both awake and asleep is another.  It might perhaps be observed that most people are raised from childhood to bring these into unison and it is the education system’s role to direct how they develop with age.  When these two selves diverge, some forms of mental illness can ensue.  However, it is wrong to suggest everyone with this split sense of self is mentally ill, because it is almost certainly universal and normal and natural. 

This is not to be confused with other linear measurements of human activity, such as Political left and right, religiosity, optimism, wealth or income.  

Naum/Norm

Angry White Male

I am an “angry white male”.  For those who don’t know, Senator Leyonhjelm has complained to the Human Rights Commission about Fairfax Media calling him something that did not actually offend him, but under Section 18C some other people could be offended.  The Senator’s proposal is to illustrate the absurd extremes that this legislation could be taken to arguing that therefore it should be repealed totally, even though in all legitimate cases people are genuinely offended by untrue and horrific accusations.  

In Philosophy, a single counter-example will disprove a proposition, and a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, but these are examples where something fails in total if it has a single discrepancy.  However the worth of legislation such as 18C that prevents genuine suffering to people from gratuitous insults does not cease to have value for them because it can be also be used in a frivolous way when the insult is mild and truthful for the sole purpose of providing a supposed ‘counter example’ to invalidate the principle on which the legislation is based.

The Australian newspape has taken up the cudgels, saying, ‘Angry white male case ‘ludicrous’ and promoting their claim that the holy democratic right of ‘free speech’ must be kept untarnished by any compromise, including banning the right to offend. 

 It is naïve to think that racism is not a privately held belief of many if not a majority of Australians.  It rarely surfaces publicly, and when it does the only apology is for being caught.  The oldest and most enduring form of racism is anti-Semitism, which is even espoused in Parliament by Greens who pretend that singling Israel out of all the world’s countries for endless criticism and oppression and endorsing the Islamist terrorists of Hamas somehow has nothing to do with anything Jewish.

The free speech that might be restored with the repeal of 18C would save journalists like Andrew Bolt who make ignorant and insulting generalisations about Aboriginal people or other groups they disparage from being brought to account.  Once again, the Criminal Justice System poorly delivers beneficial social solution, and typically fails to re-educate them and further polarises them and stiffens their socially un-acceptable, private opinions by meeting out a Legal penalty that they believe is not deserved and only results from unwanted legislation.  

Stand-Up Comedians, late night television hosts and ABC journalists would be no less hampered in genuine social criticism that leads people to a greater understanding of the feelings of others.  Their extreme ridicule would continue to be tolerated because it was done in context as it generally is now to an appropriate audience.  However, the people who would benefit are those whose sole aim is to insult and hurt people, often crudely in the most in-appropriate circumstances.  Such people are currently kept within like-minded, closed social groups, that regrettably still survive.  Perhaps without 18C, more people would speak out publicly so that they can be identified and re-educated.  Most Racism springs from ignorance and superstition.

Punishing people for having wrong ideas is counterproductive, but we still need legislation to stop the people, though breaches should lead to changes, not an eye for an eye.

Bring Back Beats

Now that it is socially acceptable to be homosexual, it should be socially acceptable to tolerate homosexual behaviour.  In the old days, pre AIDS, there were places called beats, where homosexual men could walk around in public and connect.  Now we have apps so people can do it anywhere in public, but there is a lot to be said for designated public beats. 

From my experience, it is an old Australian tradition that going down to the riverbank at midnight was a place to meet men.  I never did much with anyone I met, and I don't think many of the men wanted to do much either, just stand in a circle and jerk off.  Mostly, however, men paired off, with some treating it as a race and the first to climax would leave immediately, leaving the other man frustrated.

In the cities, public parks replaced river banks, but they were always times and places where people would not go, or even know exist, except for this one, specific purpose.  Public Toilets became infamous, for example the Honey Pot between St Pats and the Parliament.  Sand dunes were a wonderful place.

In those days, 'gay' meant 'happy' and certainly everyone left a beat happy.  When no one obviously was and everyone possibly could be, and no one had concepts like 'homosexual' even, let alone all the diverse gender identities that have recently surfaced like the sub-atomic particles they keep finding, many men who where on the spectrum from 'gay to straight' would regard it as remaining faithful to their wives as such activity was not sex. 

The pay-off for social acceptability is a demarcation, so the sub-set of people who are homosexual becomes a distinct bubble within society, with an impervious outer layer, so people must decide whether they are in or out (though in this case you would be in if you were out)() of the sub-bubble.  The slow gradation between those of different levels of a social quality, such as homosexuality, in all its ramifications, has gone.

However, beats support the principles of personal liberty and acceptance of us being who we are in the public space.  Yet they are separate and isolated places at times.  They should be signposted and protected by the police, not harassed. 

Riverbanks were best.  I think that is where I first fell in love with Country.  Perhaps because some of the guys I met up with (at least three that I knew were) were Aboriginal, as one might expect on the beautiful but remote rivers in Australia, back in the days when Old Australia still existed, unnoticed, waiting for the right conditions of freedom.

Legislation needs to reflect public realities.  The Law is like a structure within the Social Bubble.  It provides rigid relationships between various individuals and persists in space and through time

Israeli athletes at Rio Olympics endure ‘shocking’ hostility, taunting by Muslim nations

Israeli athletes at Rio Olympics endure ‘shocking’ hostility, taunting by Muslim nations



Antisemitism is stronger than sportsmanship. Many Moslem countries display their true position towards Israel with their boycott of Israeli athletes at the Rio Olympics showing that their objective is not a 'two state solution' but the annihilation of Israel ant the extermination of all Jews. 

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It is all so anonymous, like Actors behind the Proscenium/Fourth Wall, who have the lights in their eyes and cannot see out into the black void that is in front of them.  Perhaps it is best not to see the empty seats, equivalent to the people who Liked New Whig at first, but never interacted and for whom the posts, rare as they were, dropped from their Facebook News Feed.  

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