They say surfers get choosier as they get older, but like so much of the current world’s narratives, its not that simple. It is the mark of the fool to think in extremes, highly polarised concepts of black or white, right or wrong. Thanks in no small part to the incendiary and stylised slogans of the likes of Trump, Palmer, Putin and the many Murdoch minions – all using methods straight from the Goebbels playbook of propaganda – disenfranchised halfwits parrot these hollow sound bites as their own ‘opinions’. To these neuronally challenged masses, subtleties and nuance are completely lost, and it’s got to be all this way, or all that way.
In this sense, my own increasing choosiness is not just about turning into a cranky, ancient, “It was…
