⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION   Ed. No. 76 - BEING 'A BEGGAR ON THE STREET OF LOVE'

Wanting "TOO MUCHIE"

John Howard Davies actor from the feature film "Oliver Twist" (1948) / Director: David Lean (A Directors Director)

We don't want to end up in the poorhouse. 

Do we?

I'm wondering when the penny is going to drop across our World that we are going to need to change if we are going to survive let alone thrive in the coming decades? The party rages on. We are consciously unconsciously postponing the inevitable.

Party on we may but the excess is coming to an end.

We've already had dis-ease impacting the whole planet. Warnings have been given time and again about climate change. It's now reality. Accelerated change fuelled by the Technological Revolution while having benefits has also brought with it disconnection, thievery and information overload. Wars, threats and political change have helped create societal breakdown, dysfunction and uncertainty.  Not to forget the memory of those many human beings who've lost the most precious thing they had - their lives. Is hope dwindling gradually as discontent grows around our world?

Leaders are facing a real conundrum. If we proceed on the way we are doing consuming and expecting, even feeling entitled, to want more we are damned to feel the crunch eventually. And if leaders emerge who do have the mettle to set down a vision then that always comes with a discipline required to advance us. So very unpopular to those addicted to unshakeable concepts about their expected "freedoms". 

I mean many actually even choose to remain ignorant. 

That way it is easier to blame someone else when things go wrong. 

Knowing the truth means there is no excuse.

I can hear the screams now. But, but, but, but, but.

On "Q&A" ABCTV the other evening qualified speakers were saying that we are living unsustainably. If the Government increases spending even on well meaning supporting programmes to the populace the money has to come from somewhere which means increased taxes or the revenue coming from somewhere else? Yet we are offered tax breaks like kids being handed lollies. Cut the tax cuts for starters. Is our vote/support so easily bought?

We are too caught up in a growing fear and anger epidemic. And that can only be deduced as a result of the aforementioned events. Humanity has gotten ourselves in a right "Oliver Twist". (We need more levity in our lives. Me too! So muchie seriousness?)

And yet we want more. As if more of everything is the solution. Give it a break. More of everything can actually make a person sicker. Certainly more dependent. A bit like an addiction.

Unless we want more leaders like Trump and Putin we're going to need to radically change our values, wants, needs and desires. The problem is we're addicted to a system that if we're truthful with ourselves is no longer working to provide the happiness we seek.

And no matter what we do in life that is the bottom line. Ultimately we want to feel good inside. We've become addicted to the material path as providing the answer.

It hasn't. It won't.

My Mother (92 years of age) often tells me the story of her and her friend Dorothy (95 years of age). They have been friends since early school days. My Mother recalls the real joy they had as kids going window shopping. No money at all to spend. But they laughed together (and still do). They knew how to make their own fun. It was a simple life. Why did we make it so complicated?

THE CHOICE

To be blunt we are going to learn one way or the other how to be 'a beggar on the street of love' to borrow a phrase. A little humility and gratitude goes a long way in a thirsty and oh so needy/greedy world. We've forgotten our true size and place in the bigger picture of things. 

Nature rules. Anyway, I'll call it Nature. You can call it what you like but it rules and we follow. Better to be on the side of Nature than exist in a state of head spinning confusion. 

That seems to be much of humanity's choice presently?

There's a lot to be said about making a flexible vision to see a clear, solid, balanced and sustainable way forward. Even if our plan changes and evolves a pointer gives us compass and hope in our lives.

We might as well enjoy the journey. Sure we should have a party. The party of life. 

Just know when YOU are asking for "too muchie". - Neville ☺︎

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Celebrate life!

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What is your vision for YOO?

👋 Celebrate yoo!

(The public use of the STAN&PETE emoji symbol above is subject to the good and right support of many.)

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NEXT TIME

"Into the New Age"

(What will it be like?)

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 ⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION   Ed. No. 75 - HAPPINESS - WHEN IT ALL MEANS SOMETHING

SAM MOSTYN

GOVERNOR GENERAL OF AUSTRALIA

HAPPINESS

SATURDAY 22 MARCH 2025
389 BUS ROUTE 
SYDNEY CITY TO EASTERN SUBURBS 
AROUND 4PM 

What confirmed to me that it was our Governor General who had just stepped onto the bus was her smile. Sunshine! It was the smile of success as wide as Australia and as deep as the oceans around us.

The smile of a happy Nation. 

She sat right next to me and started to look at her phone. 

I said nothing. 

I could have started a conversation and planted a seed 

that perhaps it was time Sydney hosted a World Expo. 

But I didn't.

It's not my job to do that. 

I've done enough on this subject and want to move on with my life in a new direction.

We are so used to our leaders initiating things.

In fact we consider it the norm.

We lay there like spoilt adolescents squirming with our helplessness hanging out for the pocket money of the latest tax cut and then blame the leaders when things don't work out. Sheesh!

And what would it mean if the spark came from the top anyway. 

We'd find an excuse to diss it. We're good at that.

Is it the leftovers of a colonial mindset?

No, for any good idea to have real value it must come from the grass roots and be supported by many along the way. Ideally Sam Mostyn needs to have something of substance handed to her on the subject. There needs to be enough rolling support behind any idea before it reaches people such as the Governor General or Prime Minister.

I don't know how that happens. But that's the way it needs to happen.
We are approaching a new era on this planet and things need to happen differently.

Certainly the days of masculine energy running the show are coming to a close. They failed.

Feminine energy needs to be tapped to nurture ideas along.

The leaders we are looking for are ourselves.

If we want a planned vision forward we have to let it be known en masse 

that that is what we want.

And we have to find the discipline to realise any vision.

It is much bigger than one person.

I've really now said enough about the idea of a SYDNEY WORLD EXPO other than for a major artwork that I'd like to have the space to complete on the subject titled "BENNELONG DREAMING (After Coburn)" (See concept visual following.)

What I've presented here over previous weeks is one approach, an example or model if you like, of how a balanced and sustainable vision for Australia might manifest. My writings are meant to be an inspiration.

A real vision though needs to emerge by the want of enough individuals and that my friends is up to YOO & YOU.

Note that it is the deeper YOO that is running the show if you want it to be a success.

Learn to listen to the deeper part of yourself and the outcomes will be fine and lasting. - Neville☺︎

FINAL WORD

Altogether there is far too much focus on the economy as being our saviour and also too that our political leaders will solve our problems for us. They won't and they can't. It is not within their power to make us happy. They can't legislate for happiness. We have to find happiness on our own path to save ourselves from the ignorance that was born with us. 

That involves both willingness and discipline to place ourselves on a path of self discovery. 

We need to learn to Celebrate life!

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Celebrate life!

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What is your vision for YOO?

👋 Celebrate yoo!

(The public use of the STAN&PETE emoji symbol above is subject to the good and right support of many.)

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NEXT TIME

"Too muchie"

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⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION  Ed. No. 74 -THE AUSTRALIAN REPRESENTATION AT A SYDNEY WORLD EXPO

NOTHING BEATS BEING THERE

(Time for a New Way)

MUD MAP for a SYDNEY WORLD EXPO - Australia's JAMBAROO®

CLICK ON THIS MUD MAP TO DISCOVER MORE DETAILS ABOUT 

THE AUSTRALIAN REPRESENTATION AT THE SYDNEY WORLD EXPO. 

DIG DEEPER TO FIND 

THE GOLD, GOLD, GOLD, AUSTRALIA

I've heard it said more recently that now we have the Internet it makes World Expos less attractive. 

Has the high profile of World Expos and the Movement itself fallen away or is it simply that Australia has lost interest in anything other than sporting events, the ogle-fest of TV's "Married at First Sight" and the economy money?

I believe the powers that be, certainly in Australia, regard Expos as nothing more than “fairy floss”. Perhaps in part that’s the result of “too muchie macho” energy running Australia? 

Are we now a shallow taking society?

It can also be argued that while the immediacy of the internet is one advantage it is also an impediment. Are people feeling disconnected for that very reason?  Everything has become too fast. Information and change is now coming at us so fast that there isn't the space to process that information/change, enjoy and so better understand what is happening in and around us. 

Nothing beats the live experience of being there.

And yes too sometimes things need to be done in a different way. 

Having the same people do things the same way time and again becomes, well, predictable even boring.

Naturally all Nations, Corporates and individuals want to be seen in their best light. 

My question is though have Expos become just too saccharine? And yep doing the hard yards and facing truths about ourselves is not easy work. 

That's the difference between the current Expo mindset and what is being proposed here with a SYDNEY WORLD EXPO i.e. Australia's JAMBAROO®. 

Just a little caution here. 

Sometimes we need to stop and look before we leap.

[The 1964/65 New York World's Fair people went it alone following a fall out with the BIE - Bureau International Expositions (the current world body overseeing Expos). It was not pretty. But it certainly ended up being a different and memorable Expo.

By the way according to Wikipedia, Australia is no longer listed as a member of BIE.]

At Australia's JAMBAROO® participants need to show what they are doing to provide balance and self improvement in their own backyards.

I mean if we can't get our own backyards together what hope is there for the planet? 

Australia's JAMBAROO® might be considered a one off, something unique in a tired world. If you remember correctly the Sydney 2000 Olympics had come along when the Olympic Movement was in bad shape. People felt the Movement had been compromised. 

It was not popular. Sydney's Olympics restored faith on the World stage to a tired entity. Perhaps it is time Sydney attempted something similar with the Expo Movement?

I'm just asking questions here.

We have to be braver and honest and look deeper.

People across the planet are not listening to the same old same old. - Neville ☺︎

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  On happiness.

  
  

  

Celebrate life!

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What is your vision for YOO?

👋 Celebrate yoo!

(The public use of the STAN&PETE emoji symbol above is subject to the good and right support of many.)

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⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION   Ed. No. 73 - UNTYING THE KNOTS

UNTYING THE KNOTS 

STAN&PETE

MEET THE PROPOSED SYDNEY WORLD EXPO MASCOTS 

INTENDED TO HELP UNTIE THE KNOTS. 

THEY REPRESENT BALANCE AND SELF IMPROVEMENT.

Concept Art: Neville Williams ©

Do we stop to wonder presently why so much of our world is not functioning properly?

Could it be that a whole knot load of issues are remaining unresolved within us making it difficult for us humans to move anywhere let alone in a chosen direction. When we don’t address matters that need our fundamental focus and attention they fester inside us and eventually become strangling. Things build up until nothing will work properly and those matters are addressed and cleared.

One of those issues on a National level for Australia is the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. It is one of those high profile issues on the National agenda that is stuck. Perhaps we need to change the way we are looking at the whole subject?

We are not going to make any headway on the issue of Reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians (or for that matter any subject needing reconciling what is unreconciled) until we place "Reconnection to our larger world environment, each other and most importantly the reconnection to ourselves" as number one priority.

We will continue to walk round in circles tiring ourselves until we change our understandings and values.

There is no one on our planet who cannot better understand themselves. Our living practices and values systems are tying us in knots. The level playing field of 'reconnection' is where our focus needs to be. 

You met STAN&PETE in the header above. They are the proposed SYDNEY WORLD EXPO - MASCOTS. Their naming is inspired by the highly regarded Australian journalists 

STAN GRANT & PETER HARTCHER who are both outstanding individuals each having something valid to say. And sure you could too substitute any other two individuals here that have impressed you over your lifetime.

But have you impressed yourself?

In essence this symbol represents the balance within us all individually. 

As the Chinese say the YIN and the YANG. 

As the "Imagineer" here the way I see it is that we are looking at YOU & YOO. 

The material YOU and the spirit YOO. 

Or perhaps one emoji represents the YOU(head) and YOO(heart)?

Presently the balance in our world doesn’t appear in a flow. 

The individuals that make up the whole aren't in flow within inside themselves.

Just look at human beings now to see how out of balance we’ve become. 

We're more like human doings.

Multiply that across the planet and you've got quite a mess.

As well as representing balance these two emojis also represent self improvement.

And can anyone not do with some self improvement?

When you look in the mirror at STAN&PETE, both YOU and YOO should feel good! 

If you do not feel good then these two emojis are an aspiration to work towards. 

SYDNEY WORLD EXPO is about understanding ourselves better.  

We need to do some homework.  - Neville ☺︎

SADDENDUM: WE WANT "TOO MUCHIE" OF EVERYTHING

 

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  THE AUSTRALIAN PAVILIONS

  Reflecting, 

  examining 

  & discovering 

  life in Australia.

  
  

  

Celebrate life!

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What is your vision for YOO?

👋 Celebrate yoo!

(The public use of the STAN&PETE emoji symbol above is subject to the good and right support of many.)

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⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION   Ed. No. 72 - FREEDOM = WORK = DISCIPLINE

“have a go, Australia!”

Bill Clinton when he was President of the United States once commented that for a long time in America there had been a debate about whether the US should continue to act as the world’s policeman.

Trump moving into the White House presents the perfect opportunity for all Nations to get their own backyard in order. Further to that comment the changes that are manifest in our world currently are starting to make us do that anyways.

This can be a good thing or we can make it a most horrible ride.

In a way the tariff increases imposed by this newly arrived US disciplining regime are like pushing children out of a protective family home and making dependents walk on their own. I wonder too in any case whether many Nations have been riding on the coat tails of the US for far too long? The United States don’t want to be looking after others anymore. They want to look after themselves. Not a bad thing when doing it with the right motivation. But let’s not ignore the fact that they are the leaders of free market capitalism and probably amongst the top greediest of nations on the planet. They will tie themselves in knots with their own created confusions.

Listening to the Australian Ambassador in Washington Kevin Rudd comment on the 7.30 Report ABCTV he said that this current US Administration was “Transactional”. 

That got me to wondering what “transactional” meant?

It’s all about materialism and winning and doing the best deal possible for them. You can forget about anything “ethereal” like past friendships, the shared history of fighting side by side in wars together, cultural kindnesses between nations, anything where subtle humanities are involved. It’s all about “Show me the money” - Jerry Maguire.

This is Capitalism on the edge of the abyss. America is on the cusp of becoming isolated and they will have done it all to themselves. Their neurosis will really kick in then.

If Americans have deluded themselves into thinking that more of everything is going to make them happier then just watch and see how unhappy a Nation can become. Simply put happiness is not an attribute of matter.  Someone of wisdom once said to me “Big money equals big headaches”. I think it’s also a truism too that more of everything can lead to less happiness.

Quite some lessons coming our world’s way.

So can it be said it is time to “have a go, Australia!”? And in a simple sentence that means taking the fullest responsibility for ourselves and walking our own walk.

Is that so bad? 

The “have a go, Australia!” theme might just be an appropriate slogan to segue into the proposed Sydney World Expo intending to build hope across the whole Nation and onto a World in the grip of great uncertainty. It is a theme essentially about encouraging us in our own decided direction. 

It’s about becoming/being grown ups.

It would be true to say that for many years the US upheld an international role model status with due diligence. That’s when they were great. 

The US is now empty and in need of regeneration.

Hard to understand the need(?) to bring in a wrecker to knock things down and start over. 

Are too many humans truly locked in that stubborn a prideful mindset?

Looks to be that way.

Best thing Australia can do is grab the baton of opportunity and get running with it.  - Neville ☺︎

ADDENDUM

Something of a surprise to pick up a dog eared copy of last Sunday’s Telegraph in my local coffee shop after writing this blog to discover that my views expressed here were something like a mirror image to what conservative columnist Peta Credlin was espousing in her commentary.

Is it that we baulk at the idea of “discipline” because so many regard this as akin to having our “freedoms” taken away by others? Freedoms never come freely. There’s always “work” to attain or maintain freedoms. Freedom = Work = Discipline. The trick is to do that work with initiative, willingly, even pro-actively with great enthusiasm. That is an art-form where too few seem to have found the key. 

I wish I could discover it!

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  SYDNEY WORLD EXPO

  
  

  Explaining STAN&PETE

  
  

  

Celebrate life!

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What is your vision for YOO?

👋 Celebrate yoo!

(The public use of the STAN&PETE emoji symbol above is subject to the good and right support of many.)

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