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When Inflexibility Becomes a Guiding Principle
Imagine the scene. After two years of taking the same medication and without any improvement in your health, your doctor says she didn’t prescribe the medication to make you better but to ensure that you appeared kind to other people. That’s the situation we find ourselves in after two years of wearing masks, getting vaccinated, enduring lockdowns, not travelling, and disinfecting everything in sight. In other words, people not thinking about the best way to manage the pandemic but, rather, virtue-signalling on social media how good they are. It’s a definitive sign that most people can’t think or evaluate evidence but need their opinions and actions mediated by authority figures.
The other side of the coin is people who won’t listen to any evidence, no matter how persuasive. At least the latter, though, have an excuse. We’ve been lied to so many times by an Establishment ‘nudging’ us in the right direction that nobody with a semblance of intelligence should…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins