mind reader

Today I have a bit of a wondering rant about the way the world has -become- and how ideology grips us so deeply as to destroy lives, livelihoods, and the fundamental essence of conscious being in modernity. This is born of sadness for my friends who are suffering, anger at the status quo, and deep disappointment in the successive failings of collective power and potential of humanity – so it’s a cheery one, buckle in. We’ve talked about the inextricable relationship between capitalism qua ideology and capitalism qua ontology. Marx gave us sound insights into the historiography of the mode of production, tracing the development of capital in relatively modern Europe. He and Engels gave us multiple meaningful insights into the relationship between humans and productivity, at an economic level, and began to map the territory of ideology shaping human minds to a physical level. This was continued by Gramsci, whose trad...

Healthcare in South Australia is deeply broken. This has lasted through successive governments, and is only getting worse. Commentary from those involved in service delivery, from administrative officers through medical staff, are in a mixed state of frustration and despair, or a dwindling placebo state of euphoric optimism. But there are deep mechanisms driving the divestment from healthcare across the board, and these are supported in a bipartisan fashion by the ALP and LNP both at a state and federal level. A brief detour through the immediate past premiership is required to understand the context of the situation in South Australia, which mirrors, as often the case, a microcosm of the attitude towards health and human services at a national and, frankly, international level. From as early as 2019 there have been obvious and systemic issues in South Australia’s public health system specifically relating to ambulance...