So you’re a rich, famous and powerful, middle-aged white dude.
You’re asked to share your thoughts and give your opinions every day and you do so with gusto, broadcasting yourself loudly and incessantly via traditional and social media to a receptive audience of millions.
This makes you money. Lots and lots of it.
The exposure you get from the media helps build your brand and further consolidates your influence, your businesses and your bank account. You wield serious power and you know that. You use this power skillfully to further your own self-interest.
Life is good.
So what happens when someone respectfully challenges you?
What happens when a journalist asks you a question you don’t like? That you perceive to be a bit…..unfair?
What happens when you are displeased? Angry, even?
You don’t wish to answer the question. Why should you? You’re not used to being challenged. You prefer it when the world simply accepts what you’re saying and nods along in agreement. That’s the way things always work around here. Did this journalist not get the memo? Does the journalist even know who you ARE?
Faced with such insubordination, you channel your inner toddler and you have a tantrum. You terminate the interview abruptly, stand up, remove your microphone and storm off in a bluster of righteous indignation, protesting loudly about the unfairness of being asked a question you haven’t approved by someone you can’t control.
Your interviewer is left staring at an empty chair where your big, loud presence sat just moments before.
Well played Jordan Belfort, Clive Palmer and Ray Hadley.
Take your bucket and spade and exit the sandpit.
Show us what you’re really made of: Jelly.
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The picture of the baby crying in your article showed up in my saved photos randomly. And then in good it said my last search thing was "wait why are you throwing a tantrum?" And I clicked it and found the photo of the baby randomly saved to my phone in your article..........
so who should run the country? if we go the opposite, how about young black poor females? or very old, middle eastern men? I understand clive is a dick head, but why assassinate middle age white men? Am I arrogant if I suggest nearly everything you have today is attributable to the white males who went to war, built dams (yes Italians and greeks etc are considered white).and ran this country for the past 200 years? Its a typical left view to want to ruin everything simply because there are no problems. Example being Howard. Everything was perfect but the dumb new uni voters, and greens type convinced the labor voters to join forces and replace him with,,,well you know the rest.
My point is , without turning this into a race contest even though the article focus is on colour as a negative , that countries are ran by people who reflect 1. The culture of that country, 2 are intellectually experienced (doctors, lawyers, wealthy business people) 3. Have wealth behind them ( so they can campaign etc but still put food on the table. In china , you expect wealthy Chinese people to run the country, in the Middle East it's wealthy Arabs, and hence in Australia it's educated wealthy white people. This does not preclude anyone of any colour or faith rinning a country. However I could not move to the Middle East and realistically expect to run a country there. I do not represent the majority . Also young people could not run a country, you need life experience to get to a point where you make decisions for the majority good, not for the benefit of yourself or a small circle of friends.