Lefties Giving Our Lives More Texture
by David Archibald
20 March 2017
People who have a belief system outperform, in general, those who regard any form of religion as mere superstition. In fact it seems that our brains are hardwired for some sort of belief system. After all, religion is part of culture and culture is the extension of evolutionary processes by non-physical means. The same is true of ritual. Those who lead deracinated lives are less happy than those who have purpose. The Jewish faith demonstrates how much ritual a people can take and still be productive.
The global warming hysteria gave a much-appreciated boost to ritual observance. All the oil companies were wishy-washy in their response to the sham science, but BP and Shell were complete sellouts to the forces of darkness. Thus in buying petrol it is an easy choice to avoid those two brands. Choosing other brands remains an easy way to help preserve Western Civilization.
And now a whole new layer of complexity to our lives has come along. There is now a push to have the Australia Federal Parliament vote on gay marriage and avoid a vote by the Australian public. The CEOs of 20 companies and institutions have signed a letter to the Prime Minister to that end. But the letter doesn’t say which companies are represented and should thus be avoided. To make up for that deficiency, here is the list:
- Mark Bernhard — GM Holden
- Andrew Clark — Boston Consulting Group
- Geoff Culbert — GE Australia
- Robert Cutler — Clayton Utz
- Michael Ebeid — SBS
- Shayne Elliott — ANZ
- Tracey Fellows — REA Group
- David Gallop — Football Federation of Australia
- Richard Goyder — Wesfarmers
- Todd Greenberg — National Rugby League
- Brian Hartzer — Westpac
- Cindy Hook — Deloitte
- Tony Johnson — EY Australia
- Alan Joyce — Qantas
- Tony King — Apple Australia
- John Lydon — McKinsey Australia
- Steve McCann — Lendlease
- Anthony Moore — Basketball Australia
- Stephen Moore — SAP
- Ian Narev — Commonwealth Bank
- Peter Nash — KPMG Australia
- Paul O’Sullivan — Optus
- Andrew Penn — Telstra
- Kerry Purcell — IBM Australia
- Tim Reed — MYOB
- Heather Ridout — Australian Industry Group
- Luke Sayers — PwC Australia
- Ann Sherry — Carnival Australia
- Rachel Stocks — American Express Australia
- Peter Tonagh — News Corp
- Louis Vega — Dow Chemical
- Andrew Vesey — AGL
- Jennifer Westacott — Business Council of Australia
- David Zehner — Bain and Company
It is helpful of these companies to self-identify as enemies of civilization. In one way the list is heartening, in that they had to scrape the bottom of the barrel and include Basketball Australia.
David Archibald’s latest book is American Gripen: The Solution to the F-35 Nightmare.
