Probing our ignorance
Thank you Paul for your perceptive reading of such perceptive polling which requires us now to go deeper to find the right questions to probe how the dissenting sentiment identified by the Herald Resolve poll, for all its virtue, ignores how we are already inked in to the “major military dust-up” in which we don’t want to be involved!
IOW: thanks for reiterating this point but now we set ourselves to plumb why our Commonwealth has to deal with our own persistently deep and ongoing political ignorance about our own fearful and precarious place in the South West Pacific.
Has not that sense of precariousness been deepened by bi-partisan, furtively engineered, militarist commitments that already compromise us?
Could this inherited lack of public lack awareness of our true involvement have anything to do with the persistent bi-partisan neo-liberal realpolitik presumed to be normative for our state-crafting?
How are we to find a way as a polity to explain the a-historical sentiment that seemingly defines us as ignorant as you have so deftly done?
Address that and we might also begin to see how last year’s Referendum manifested a similar lack of awareness about our Commonwealth’s international obligations.
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