Unfortunately, Life sometimes throws alot of stuff at you at once and this has happened to me. My days and nights are alot busier at present as is Echo’s. Therefore I’m going to be taking a break for a little whilst from the blog. Posting that is. I’m happy for you to send me your posts if you’d like to keep posting, and I’ll comment as per the posts. But for now, I’m just too busy. In the near future however, perhaps we can continue on. There are things that I’d personally like to get going such as the anti-pornography group. However, I’ll need some time for the moment to accomplish all the tasks I have on hand for the beginning of this university year. Thanks to all your posting. It’s been very interesting to say the very least.
March 5, 2007 at 7:00 am
I’m presently doing some work on the clinical issues of addiction and pornography. I’m very interested in working with you on this track and would like it if we could stay in touch on this one.
The intensity of my commitments has increased tenfold or more too, so let’s not consider doing anything for at least 9 months. Perhaps 2008 could be the year we kick something off.
March 6, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Although I am in South Australia I would be interested in an anti-pornography association. Obviously I am not interested in legislating against pornography but how about a monthly boycott list where we write to networks giving petitions for reform?
Anyway I am interested.
March 6, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Or writing to the advertisers that sponsor dodgy shows?
March 6, 2007 at 9:43 pm
If I was to be involved with starting an anti-p group, I’d be heavily interested in organising petitions to regulate the sale of the product.
I’d also be interested in boycotting, but I don’t think that merely doing that is enough. I am very much interested in the regulation of objects whether aesthetically or physically consumed that does harm to the social and individual health. To argue that we should deregulate everything is socialist doctrine, which is fine in the utopian fantasy, but in reality?
March 7, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Actually regulation is a socialist doctrine, while deregulation is a liberal doctrine.
For what we might be able to organize, I would say boycott might actually be more realistic.
To get a censorship on a pornography you would need to get it into Federal or State law. That is alot of politicians to convince or at least the Labor or Liberal party.
With a boycott you could go to a corner store and ask the shop owner if they would mind removing the xxx magazines. I have done this and the new shop owner was pleased to as they only stocked it because they felt it was expected of them.
You could personally invite all the shop owners to do the same in your local area. You could make a list of G rated shops, and support them with your business. etc etc
March 9, 2007 at 10:50 am
Actually regulation is not a pure socialist doctrine. Regulation was part of the Communist doctrine that later would lead to the Socialist paradise on total deregulation. However utopian it was, Communism would later lead to Socialism…not the other way around.
As for the boycott thing, I’ve all intentions of doing that, but I’m suggesting that as a political group (minor) we could effect some changes and we could bring about some debate at least. It happens all the time. Minority groups speak out, politicians act. That’s unfortunately how it works.
Anyway whether this group gets off the ground or not is debatable.
March 11, 2007 at 9:29 am
OK well there are any progressions, let me know.
I must admit I have never heard of Socialism becoming deregulated. Can you reference this?
March 14, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Well if you read ‘Capital’ all 3 volumes, you’ll find that Marx predicts that revolution will occur with a strong ‘proliteriat’ State which forcibly takes back Capital from the ‘bourgeois’.
He then predicts that after this is accumulated, the State will be subverted below society and thus dissolve. Everyone will then be in a Socialistic paradise where private property is non existant and the division of labour is multi faceted and not individualistic.
Problem for Marx is that he never gave a direct blue print of how to achieve this. The ‘dissolution’ of the state in the Russian revolutions never occurred as the Bolsheviks never relinquished their power. Thus you had a strong state, like the many communist states around the world, with little hope of the Socialist paradise that Marx described as happening.
Thats a very simplistic way of looking at Marx’s massive contribution to Social Theory in the form of his books on Capital. Of course, Communism or Socialism of this kind is shunned by the church. Most certainly because it requires a violent revolution in order to achieve the intermediary ‘proliteriat’ state. However, as a dogma, the final stage of socialism that Marx dreamed of sounds nice to me….
March 14, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Yeah, can’t say that I will be reading Capitals 3 volumes (is that the same as Das Kapital?). I am unlikely to read all of Wealth of Nations either.
I did read Thomas Moore’s Utopia which also sounds pretty nice. The only problem is it seems to leave human nature out of the equation.
April 17, 2007 at 4:07 am
Nice blog!
April 22, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Thanks, always good posts on your blog!
July 15, 2007 at 6:13 pm
It looks like some time since any comments have been published here, but I would like to mention that myself and some others recently attended a guided tour of Queensland Parliament House, conducted by David Gibson, the Member for Gympie and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I really enjoyed the opportunity and found it enlightening. If anyone is interested (and given that it seems its been a while since anyone has commented, its possible no one is!) I would be happy to share any observations.
August 8, 2007 at 8:53 am
I’d be interested to hear Rebecca!