The elevated middle
Podcast interview and a look ahead to 2023
Hi everyone and welcome back for the New Year. What joys and marvels will the political class inflict upon us in 2023? I can hardly wait.
We got off to a pretty bad start with various people falling over themselves to say nice things about Cardinal Pell and Senator Jim Molan, and it was reminder of the way in which the political class—the status quo, if you like—uses such moments to assert its own power, what I described in a social media post as the activation of the automatic stabilisers of the patriarchy.
It was also a reminder of the way in which the mainstream confuses civility with decency.
I’ve been asked to write about this exercise of mainstream power for the Market Herald and that piece will be available next week.
It is looking to be the year of AI too, as various image- and text-generating programs continue to infringe on work previously thought to be the exclusive domain of human beings. Of course, you can have endless arguments about the quality and wor…
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