🔴 NEW DIRECTION Ed. No. 4 / ON 'THE BIRDS' (feeling like Tippi Hedren in a Hitchcock horror movie)
BY LOUD SCREECHING GALAHS?
Twice over the space of two days I was kindly hosted by two friends separately to celebrate my 70th Birthday.I don’t eat out regularly not that I ever did.What an education.When did the cultural phenomenon of the new breed of squawking parrots emerge?I mean I was stunned into silence by groups of marauding young teenage girls/women and their “hens nights out” baggage of privilege. Is it a case of who can squawk the loudest and drown out the others? On the two separate occasions mentioned I literally could not hear what my friends were saying. That’s how loud the hens are. What’s more the body language speaks that it is their complete right to create this cacophony. Talk about disrespect for others.
This is correctly described as an abuse of freedom.No civility, grace or manners. This doesn’t seem to concern them.It should if we want a sane future.If it wasn’t bad enough having these “chicks” invade the restaurant but then a converted fire engine pulled up outside at the traffic lights with more of this untamed flock screeching as loudly as they could from the top deck.Save us from these coarse birds.And then the following day was breakfast in the basement of a local terrace house converted into a coffee shop. All looked safe when we arrived. Only one group of chicklets and their male handbags. We could deal with that - but no way. Given another 10 minutes and three other separate groups of galahs had swooped. The sound chamber of this enclosed space made the experience of the night before look like a sedate English tea party. So loud in fact that we had to desert the place for the peace (and safety) of a tree in a local park.Now for those of you who are thinking ‘sexist mysogynist bastard’ let me interject your busy bee headspace to say that I’m sure the Cock of the species is just as big a ‘cock’, if not worse.It’s just that the men occupy the pubs and clubs. Foreign climates to me.But truly sometimes Australian women are more coarse than their own men.A good descriptive to overview this emergence would be the “Married at First Sight Brigade”. Airheads the lot of them. Where’s the brain let alone any heart? All surface no substance.The silly thing is that they think they are so “now”.This is not a matter of me showing my age.It is the rudeness and loudness of what we are allowing ourselves to become.I’ll repeat, loud screeching parrots each trying to out scream the other with second hand opinions. Parrots just repeat an echo of what they’ve heard from someone else. There’s no original thought, reflection, depth, consideration or feeling involved in this form of banter. It’s blather*.
All talk no listen. Immature is the word.
Talking involves the art of communication. And that is being anchored, focussed and centred on the self, opening up and either saying something worthwhile or allowing the other person’s words to penetrate overly demanded upon psyches and accept internally what the other is saying. No great volume is needed. It is a process of mutual regard. That’s called connection. Something that is becoming history.Humans are looking and sounding to be more like caricatures by the day.Australia you might take a good look at yourself.Where is the mutual respect, consideration, humility and kindness of some peace in our lives?Disengage the head. Plug into the heART.Regards, Neville Williams is a Sydney Artist
*(Thank you Mike Carlton).
Miss Yellow Tips (A complete picture of demure femininity.)
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ADDENDUM
ABUSE OF THE PRIVILEGE OF FREEDOM
From: NEVILLE WILLIAMS <n.b.williams@optusnet.com.au>
Subject: HUMANITY MORE THAN A TRUMP RUMP OF MEAT
Date: 1 April 2024 at 12:11:53 pm AEDT
To: The Editor THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD <letters@smh.com.au>
HUMANITY MORE THAN A TRUMP RUMP OF MEAT
The Trump mindset of utilising a picture of Joe Biden hog tied in the back of a ute to promote Trump’s ambitions sounds the decline of the American Way. (“Trump hog-ties Biden - and freedom” Herald Opinion April 1)
When a way of life gets to a point where it regards a human being like a piece of meat then it no longer has a place in the mix of our humanity.
This is taking the concept of freedom and abusing it. America is no longer the home of the brave and the land of the free. Their sense of over the top entitlement is placing them in their own created prison of unhappiness.
No bravery being shown in this sort of behaviour.
The Americans were once great contributors on the world stage but are now lost in their own disconnection from themselves.
No excuse for this type of expression. Trump’s Rump shows just how low they are sinking.
Bye bye Western Civilisation.
Regards,
Neville Williams
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