Along with countless others, I am distressed and annoyed at my inability to change minds.
Of course, this feeling of frustration is a weakness on my part, an inability to realise that others minds are their own, and it is no business of mine to go in there and change anything.
But there are times when the zen-like clarity of ‘what will be will be’ fails me.
One such time occurred recently. I read an article entitled ‘For humanity to survive, we must make Australia’s politicians feel our fear and rage’. And so we should. The article contained some solid statements about how Australia and especially its politicians must wake up to a changing world and the reality of climate change.
My frustration built then boiled over when reading this paragraph that quotes, with great moral fortitude, the words of the school strikes movement.
I agree wholeheartedly with the premise… just do your job.
The source of the frustration was that the article’s author is Peter Garrett AM, minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts from 2007 to 2010 in the Rudd and Gillard governments.
I just can’t take the irony anymore.
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