Letter

In response to The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk

Guillotines to guns... that's progress!

I don’t know what they called it in Marie-Antoinette’s day, but in our day it’s called neoliberalism and in the US we are seeing its natural endpoint, the implosion of a nation.

When the top 1%, or even .1% garner so much of the common wealth unto themselves so that in their wealthy nation people are homeless and starving, then society becomes unstable. The greater the inequality, the greater the instability. And then …. whoosh! …. look what happens! It’s not like history hasn’t warned us.

— Margaret Callinan from Hawthorn VIC 3122