Tim Blair

Heh! Margo must be "Grasshopper".

I don't understand any of this except that the writer is on some powerful drugs. And maybe the SMH, as well.

"The mass mind is known also for the fact it is impressed upon."

Ah, yes. The mass mind. In Lilek's unforgettable phrase, that "sodden mass of lumpenproles" whom the Lefties claim to champion from their intellectual Mount Olympus. Too stupid to think for themselves, the masses must be protected from their illusory "free choices."

Wanna have fun with a foreign Lefty? Next time you hear them rail against the evil of McDonald's in their homeland, ask them how often they eat there. When they give you a horrified "Never!", ask them what makes them so much smarter and more resistant to corporate propaganda than their benighted countrymen who do. Then tell them what elitist cunts they are.

You can do the same with Michael Moore. Just make it something besides McDonalds.

Anyone remember the character "Dr. Wolper" in the _The Dark Knight Returns_ and how he compared the public mind to a vast sponge as a means to blame Batman for the Joker's crimes?

This reminds me exactly of that. Someone with a blog ought to scan that page and do a little photoshopping.

"Mark Latham has not collapsed the energy built up among citizens."

Goddamn monkeys, real live monkeys, could randomly pick words from a dictionary and make more sense than those two nim-rods. I want to be a journalist at that newspaper. Good paycheck, and the only expense would be to buy a word-picking monkey.

"When the wind bends the bamboo who knows for whom the bean shoots"

Makes as much sense as Bosler.

This Bosler guy is solid comedy gold. I mean, the parody is too perfect to be anything but intentional, right?

I mean, nearly any sentence or paragraph is, if you read it closely, almost totally devoid of actual meaning. Everything he writes draws the instinctive response "WTF?" It is really difficult to write that badly - try it sometime. It has to be intentional, right?

I say pairing Margo the crushingly obvious and utterly humorless with a sly comic trickster like Bosler is stroke of genius.

The mass mind is known also for the fact it is impressed upon. While individual viewpoints exist, these exist because of what is given to that mind, whereby that mind has its thoughts shaped by what is given to it. There is, if you like, no deeper or clearer insight made by that individual mind, and it enmeshes into the mass.

Why is it, that when I read this incredible paragraph, I was suddenly struck forcefully with a mental image of Edvard Munch's "The Scream"?

http://www.art.com/asp/display_artist-asp/_/CRID--25/the_scream.htm?RFID=054402&FT=Y&TKID=2724013

I was waiting for the bit where he starts explaining John Howard succumbing to the Dark Side of the Force.

But isn't the deconstruct of what Bosler and Kingston are saying here the true essence of that deeper, more mass-minded, Australian meta-physics that was first revealed -- perhaps by way of preparing the rest of us -- by Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee?

Gasp... pant... unngg....

I.... am not.... (groan) ... a MASS!

AAaauuuuuuuugghhhhhh!!! Must... fight... NnnnoooOOOOOOO!

Damn you Real JeffS!

Is all this energy breathing going on down there driving your gasoline prices down? Just wondering...

That guy makes even Mark Morford sound coherent.

Great minds think alike, eh, CurrencyLad? ;-)

Seriously -- I've heard this sort of meta-physical drivel before. And I have usually judged the speaker to either be deranged or one slick scam artist.

If the free trade agreement means we have to read those morons here, then screw that treaty. Margo and Bosler should be rocking on the porch at the rest home, drooling at the trees.

Having just been spellbound by electric fields ,linking books and mumbo jumbo of "Uru", I took a break and linked to tim blair's site and WOW more MARGO JUMBO !
Before you set up a circle of permanganate crystals to protect yourself from this witchery of the new leftoid, it is essential that you obtain an original copy of ONE DIMENSIONAL MAN by Herbert Marcuse the Grand wizard. PLace it in the center of the circle.
Recite (sotto voce) the "Ode to Tom Blair".
The book will vanish and you will be cured of the Leftoid curse.

huh?

First, Latham "has the most horrifying job in the country. He has to walk a tightrope... He has to do it daily." Then, he is always "straddling the great divisions, and doing so flying blind." Fortunately, Latham's spirit can be replenished, since "the key has been thrown onto the table, and that gives energy naturally to the one who would pick it up".

For Australia's sake, let's hope Latham picks up that magic fusion key as he tragically balances mid-air, straddles chasms and flies blind, and locks Bosler away for statutory metaphor abuse.

The trade agreement is 1100 pages long.

If any SMH reader seriously believes Margo and BoBo are on top of it intellectually, then the Herald's readership is more far gone than anybody has imagined.

Oh thank god it's not just me who read this and didn't have a clue what they were talking about. For a moment there I thought that perhaps alzheimers had set in overnight and I was just discovering it now.

Kinda had a Star Wars moment myself, Sensei Blair:

That is not the playing field we are on.

'Those are not the 'droids you're looking for...'

Jesus H. Christ. My brain hurts now. Who knew retards were allowed to be journalists?

After reading this little nugget, I was reminded of an academic hoax with a purpose a few years ago. I did a little googling and found this on Amazon.

The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy

Here is a brief synopsis from the same web page:

From Book News, Inc.
May, 1996: physicist, Alan Sokal publishes his "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" in the Duke University journal, Social Text, edited by Bruce Robbins and Andrew Ross. The article's prose, heavy with quotations from Derrida, Harraway, Deleuze, and Lacan was also thick with poststructuralist buzz words. Sokal argued that gravity was a fiction society agreed upon but needed liberation from. Sokal then revealed in Lingua Franca that he had meant the article as a parody. Sokal's submission and subsequent revelation turned into a story about the "science wars" that made it to The New York Times. The Sokal Hoax documents the controversy with Sokal's article and revelation, the responses by the Social Text editors, and then reactions from the likes of Katha Pollitt, Stanley Fish, Bruno Latour, George Will, and many others. The volume ends with two post-hoax reflections from Andrew Ross and Sokal. No index or bibliography.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR

Surely Margo can enlighten Bobo why Latham has betrayed us?

"the fundamentalist Zionist lobby controls politics and the media and has recently pressured the Labor party to sign the free trade agreement between the US and Australia"

all I had to do was cut and paste and add a line or two.

aaah - but do they know Saddam Tiger Claw?

Re Bosler: I don't think the Star Wars comparison is quite right. Not even George Lucas aspired to this level of tendentious waffle.

I think a better comparison would be the "Matrix" sequels, which reputedly had the longest closing credits in cinema history. Someone with time on their hands should scrutinise them closely and see if they can spot Bosler hidden away there somewhere as a script consultant. (Bear in mind they were filmed in Sydney).

I'd like to give both of them a good dose of energy. On second thoughts, maybe not; has anyone considered the horror of a giant, mutated Margoyle?

In the meantime, all this Margo Mangeing has allowed Phil off the bloghook.
After the mortal wounding by his ex sparring partner, who has come to his quick senses, he issue a lame refutation on yesterdays Australian opinion page.
Will Christopher launch further broadsides and will we see Phil vanish beneath the waves for good ?
Or will Chris in an act of magnaminity put out a helping hand to his drowning ex comrade?
Hopefully the saga is not yet over.
How come you missed this exciting Soapy TIM ?

For heavans sake, somebody send her a box of crystals, so she can sit under her pyramid and chant...

My brain hurts now.

How can I be expected to trade the market and make money for my clients and myself when my brain hurts?

Incredible. They've both been watching too many Kung Fu reruns. Does the eagle envy the nest of the swallow, Margo?

The brains ... free the minds to use the brains ...

I tried this-
- Print out the whole thing
- Apply lemon juice and heat
- Turn the page upside down and read it in a mirror
Still makes no sense whatsoever but it takes your mind off it for a while

And tomorrow Sensai Bosler will show us how to drive your hardened penis through a board! HHHEEE-YAAH!!!

The whole thing is a satire, right? It has to be. It can't not be.

That is information I want to have.

Ya know, I've always admired people with the intelligence to think on a much higher plane, and put their advanced thoughts into words you and I can easily understand.

Anyone know where they are?

Wow.

Take philosophical idealism and run it through an addling machine, and this is what you get.

What the hell are you people putting in the Foster's down there?!

One again Tim Blair just cuts and pastes Margo's words and says they are stupid! But the energy you speak of has not been collapsed!!!

Robert Bosler is an anagram for Retro Slobber. Go figure.

Margo walks into a bar.

Someone says...

"Drink (pause) Grasshopper?"

Update- I think there's already been as movie made involving a Mutant Margo. A word of warning, fellas- if you take her out, on no account accept an invitation to neck, or give a little head.

Forget Margo, she's on the hydro.

Randman,you can generate your own random senseless postmodern paper at this site,I just did ,it takes a bit of time though,changes each time yet is still a post mod fabrication.
www.elsewhere.org or www.sydneyline.com.au
I suspect Bosley has downloaded one and inserted Lathams name to add authenticity yet totally dupe Margo.If that isn't the case I agree with RC Dean, pure comic gold.

"I mean, nearly any sentence or paragraph is, if you read it closely, almost totally devoid of actual meaning."

It hurt reading and trying to follow along.

Sad part is this garbage was promoted on the SMH website's front page. Who would want to put this on the front page? I bet it didn't help entice anyone to visit.

Yeah, Habib, and after the Deadly Mantis she gets atomic bombed and mutates further, to become....The Blob!AAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! Run for your life!!!!

Ah. The meaning becomes clear.

Australia has never been as a peoples['] one nation. We've been terribly divided all along.

Man I wish I was his coke supplier. He must go through thousands of bucks a day to make his mind that fucking warped.

All his talk of collapsed and built up energy had me thinking he was running for the seat of Kingsford Smith.

"Hmmm, you idea's intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter."
- Homer Simpson

Honestly and trooly, you people don't get it.

Bosler is showing generous insight into the minds of us, the unthinking spongey mass.

He HAS to say what he said as it's 'nuanced' and only interpretable by the superior minds of the SMH's elite readership. It's all about pandering to the SMH's 'AB' demographic, remember?

It's how they're able to maintain left propaganda as the 'truth.' And oh-so conveniently meshes with the world-views of innner-urban upper-income professionals. (you get the picture - think Green, Balmain, over $60k p.a.)

As usual Timmie gets it wrong. In fact Bobo has written an essay outlining the nature of fuhrerprinzip as it relates to Lark Mayhem .All this talk about the spongiform masses needing to be led you can just imagine the candle lit masses goosestepping while supervised by Larkie.

Use the Schwartz, Margo. Your Schwartz is undoubtedly bigger than Robert's.

Your twits are at least more entertaining than our twits. Here in the U.S. we proles would need access to a faculty lounge, or attend an art opening, to access such polysyllabic drivel. You should feel privileged to have commentators who can insult your intelligence on such an exalted level.