This will no doubt be short and sweet as the previous week has been full of personal commitments. Turns out it's real easy to get sapped of energy when your focus is drawn elsewhere, even when it consists of the best use of time.
Yesterday was the state election, so I doodled old mate Steven Marshall seeing as he and the Liberal party won for the first time in a long time. I'm not a Liberal supporter, in fact I'm quite the opposite, but it's hard to escape the dude's ugly mug right now as he smugly smiles for the camera.
Probably shouldn't talk too much politics, as there's little doubt that it's one of the most divisive topics to discuss in polite society. Although, I'd like to think that it's not such a bad thing to be important* and divisive. In fact, that should be the measure of something that's truly worth talking about, rather than something to be avoided.
*It's important enough to make me feel sad about the fact that most people in my local area would rather vote for separation and alienation than unity and compassion. After all the Liberals are far from liberal and any conservative party is tied to the money that backs them. In fact they're basically all about money, as they shrink government and hand over all the power to private enterprise because we're meant to believe that capitalism and the free market is a good thing for the common citizen. Never mind the two main factors that tip the balance of power firmly in the direction of the rich and beyond the hands of the people. Capitalism is inherently an inequitable system, as it counts on one person profiting from the labour of another. Secondly, the free market will never provide for everyone in our society and is geared to benefit the rich and able, while destroying the poor. Conservative governments like to tell you that they will support small businesses and give them tax breaks and all that stuff because they really want the private sector to take over from government. It doesn't matter that it means there's less assurance for society that we will all be given the same opportunities. These corrupt economists only want to ensure that their state funded pensions are fat and plentiful, so they can expand their investment property portfolio and continue the cycle of exploitation. For every smarmy little smug grin from Malcolm Turnbull and Steven Marshall, there's another low income household trying to figure out how to pay their rent because the market favours investors and pits the poor against each other as they fight for their basic human rights. It's a system of monopolising chaos and suits lining their pockets with blood money.
Democracy is fair and I accept the majority vote (even though 51% of the vote does not equate to a 100% mandate to steam ahead with your disgusting abusive policies). I just wonder how I'm supposed to interact with a society that's decided to hate and divide so easily.