I have come to the tragicomic realisation that almost every aspect of my life is controlled by the incompetent and unthinking members of our society. These "controllers" seem to believe that the more complex the rules by which we have to live and operate are, the better off we will all be.

Instead of this utopian goal being realised, I posit that actually we find ourselves farther from it with every new piece of legislation and regulation passed by our governments. It has come to the point that the protection of our societal mores and values has fallen by the wayside as our governments try to find more way to extract money from us, its citizens, by way of infringement fines and user-pays tolls.

I believe that we do not need to be swathed in cotton wool every waking second of our lives. I believe that smaller government is better. I believe that the fewer irrelevant laws and regulations there are, the better our lives could be. As Ludwig Mies van der Rohe so eloquently ennunciated it: "Less is more." A perspective that I wholeheartedly support because the devil is all too often in the detail(s of the complexity). This is why some of the greatest ideas have been profoundly simple.

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It never ceases to amaze me that in western culture there is a need to aportion blame and inflict punishment accordingly. Unless, of course, the guilty are wealthy and powerful.

It is grotesque in the extreme that the proletariat can be so severely punished for the most trivial of misdemeanors, such as speeding by a couple of kilometres per hour, yet the doyens of finance who have wreaked havoc on the global economy are given multimillion dollar bonuses.

Even more obscene is the axing of workers while executives have their salaries tripled as happened in the case of Pacific Brands where the toe-cutting CEO is being paid $1.8M to fire 1800 employees. Nobody bothered to calculate that approximately 600 jobs could have been retained by firing the CEO instead.

Our political leaders must hang their heads in shame at their limp-wristed responses to the ramp greed and unconscienable risk taking that has lead us into the next great depression.

I sit here calmly waiting for the revolution.

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