Party Politics or Peyton Place?

Day 545, 02:18 • Published in Australia Australia • by Edwina P. Montague III

Swords are drawn, daggers bared.

Philosophers are brooding our future, polititians are swaggering, entrepreneurs are raging against the machine.

Welcome to the dawn of a new country.

eAustralia, we are finally whole again and our shores have never seemed more vast. We look at ourselves newly reformed and tremble in the enormity of our task. Our nation is soo vast yet soo small. Where do we start?

As an avid spectator of this "reality show" of ours, I am starting to collect my heros and villains, comics and clowns, secret favorites and not-so-favorites. There is entertainment to be had. Yet, I am beginning to tire of the same of rhetoric, finger-pointing, soap opera melodrama. Yes, the social element of this social-strategy game is truly the most dynamic and engaging of its features, yet it can be its lowest point, dare I say downfall. When we all become mired in the "he said - she/he said" rhetoric, the creativity of our shared experience is dimmed. Our unique opportunities limited. I am suddenly aware that I truly am a spectator and that, perhaps, this is one big inside joke.

Let's drop the drama and get back to the task of building this young budding nation. Let's look beyond our small circles of "frenemies" and reach out to the new citizens arriving on our shores everyday looking for a new purpose. Don't let this opportunity slip by whilst we argue in the backyard over fences.

Smarten up and stop the drama. We've got work to do.