A loner who always wanted to be a winner but afraid of venturing off the straight & narrow parallel lines. A simple lad who loved boxing tulips in that infamous Nazi town Aalesmere. A young man who found no reportable adventure in India. Maybe he would have preferred the Delhi diplomatic enclave I think. It was safer than being out there amongst the hub bub of daily life.
Uni was just too big full of ideas that challenged him. Who was that guy Che Guevara student's had on their walls a rock star? Bolt was a hero" in his own mind 'the minder to a belly dancer' however the dancer said he was more her son Oedipus. She did all the supporting of an egocentric child. He apologised for his self aggrandisement.
The question of nature or nurture doesn't apply to Andrew Bolt because he got a double dose of right and thus there's nothing left in him. The man presents like an over pancaked Thunderbird puppet on the Bolt Report head and hands bobbing away trying to impress his guests with his one way moral politic. Michael Kroger looks so bored trying to stifle yawns because the show is so one dimensional.
Any society, any family (a concept Bolt dismisses) expects the younger generation to challenge the status quo. Like Don Quixote fight injustice create a better world. It's a part of development. There is not an ounce of that in Bolt and seems never was. The elect are duty bound to preserve and protect not change things. Put the joker in the box never let him out don't rock the boat. He can't for one minute consider a 19 year old Islamic kid might been drawn to ISIS for the liberation of Sunni's. If we were back in the 60's Bolt would never have marched against the Vietnam war.
He is the morally like a strict dad who raves on about individualism within his narrow moral parameters. Talking is his bent but he has a tin ear which is the hallmark of a fascist. Win arguments at all cost because to lose say sorry or have second thoughts is existential death.Just read his blog it's self evident. I doubt if he ever had the courage to stand up against his mother & father. He's the guy you'd never see at a protest meeting. Polite but removed extremely ambitious to succeed. he wanted to take a shot at the "greasy pole" of success as promised by the hierarchy of the day. There's was never any place for idealism or questioning the status quo a true blue one-dimensional man.
He presented to his peers as friendly enough but not really on any intimate level. If they played "Truth or Dare" it would be too much of a challenge. His modernity only superficial because he wasn't modern at all. Cool on the outside anal on the inside. He didn't develop his own values or rethink what he'd been told by his mother never questioned those values. He was after all the headmaster's son he didn't embrace equality or question his position in small town country Australia the idea of equality never crossed his mind. He simply never saw past the moral circumstance given to him.
He was an confused young man for christ sake. His CV says he worked for Labour how confused is that? No how detached is that? It shows he worked for himself and was disingenuous about what it was he was doing. This man can publicly say on national TV"Aborigines weren't here first" because history has no relevance for him. Everything started at birth 54 years ago as far as he is concerned. Like Margret Thatcher there is no society only individuals competing in gods democracy where winners are grinners because their position is rightly deserved by their hard work and good graces. Cream always rises to the top. A Christian way of saying "God is Great" maybe? Oh he says he is agnostic my arse!
Andrew Bolt frames everything within the narrow confines of a morally superior framework. Conservatives act according to their moral political view of the world. If they happen to get rich, and make their friends rich in the process, that is just the unbidden consequence of wealth being the natural reward of the righteous, in their moral universe. The fact that those at the top are conservative just proves his point and justifies it's maintenance. To Bolt life is what it is and should be policed, protected and maintained not socially managed engineered. After all look what Castro and Che did for Cuba it's never progressed.
I won't deny he's all right but morally he is all wrong. I hope with the natural order of things his kids will challenge the sanctimonious prick.
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