Wednesday, January 24, 2018

In which the pond celebrates western civilisation one more time ...

  

The window of opportunity for reptiles to maintain the rage about Australia Day is rapidly closing, so the pond was delighted that the Panahi was on the job, and that the lizards of Oz had specially imported an IPA civilisational specialist for the job ...

Of course the pond views this sort of campaign as being a bit like Xmas ...

Remember, preparations for the next Xmas should always begin on Boxing Day (if nothing else by picking up Xmas tree decorations at the sales), and so an article about the joys and wonders of the western heritage - including, but not limited to, two world wars and the odd Holocaust - should be made ready no later than the 27th January ...

As many are called, but few are chosen, the pond must reluctantly continue to boycott the Panahi, even if this means slighting and outraging Melbourne readers, who love their Rita meter maid as she metes out her meters meet ...


The pond doesn't quite know why it dropped in that Blake poem - perhaps it was the western heritage of building a hell in heaven's despite - but a click will enlarge it for anyone interested, while the pond will go on to attend to the d'Abrera ...



Now sadly the d'Abrera is alarmingly brief when it comes to pointing out all the many joys and virtues of colonialism and imperialism, but on the upside, while hunting up d'Abrera the pond came across this delightful reminder of the 1950s mind set ...




You see, if you'll pardon the pond lapsing into 1950s Tamworth speak, d'Abrera has a slightly woggish ring to it.

Even worse, the use of the nobiliary particle has a certain ponce quality ...a tainted Norman aspect, if you will ...certainly not Anglo-Saxon ...

The pond was vastly reassured by being reminded of d'Abrera's noble work for the IPA as the director, Foundations of Western Civilisation Program ..

Curiously she also turned up with a testimonial ...

“Love it or hate it, the internet is a powerful tool which, in the rights hands, can be employed for the glory of God. I cannot but help think that having just launched myself into the blogosphere, the fact that a copy of ‘How to Create a Catholic Blog’ landed in my inbox was nothing but providential...

Dr. Bella D’Abrera, Catholic Author and Historian (here)

Indeed, indeed, praise the long absent lord and pass the blogging ammunition ...

But the name d'Abrera being relatively rare, the pond was, for some peculiar reason, attracted to one Bernard d'Abrera, a fundamentalist Christian creationist, listed at Rational Wiki here, with this introduction ...

He is a signatory of A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism and a vehement opponent of evolution. He is a fellow at the pro-intelligent design organization International Society for Complexity, Information and Design. He owns Hill House Publishers, which is restricted to publishing his own lepidoptera books, Bella Wyborn d'Abrera's revisionist anti-English Reformation books, and facsimile reprint editions of John Gould'sWikipedia's W.svg works. Somewhat ironically, John Gould's island biogeography work was instrumental in the development of evolution and was cited in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

D'Abrera also has an ordinary wiki here, which cites a certain Arthur Shapiro, who sounded a trifle agitated in the quote ...

Arthur Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist and entomologist at the University of California at Davis, describes d'Abrera's books thus:
Attention should be paid to their stupidities, their errors, their pig-headedness, their bad writing. The thing is, as I say in my reviews, they're absolutely indispensable. There's nothing else like them. If you're trying to identify exotic butterflies outside your geographic area, the primary and secondary literatures are so scattered and relatively inaccessible, you're out of hope. Big coffee table picture books are the only way to go. But if you're going to do that, at least get input from the people in the areas you cover geographically so you don't make an ass of yourself.

Well that satisfies the pond's taste for arcana for the day, but it must confess to having completely lost track of the other d'Abrera's scribbling, so now it's time to return to the task ...



Of course d'Abrera passes herself off as a historian, which means her fatuous guff about the rule of law and the benefits of the British justice system - as dispensed to the hapless convicts who turned up down under, only to be told that Botany Bay was completely useless and they'd better head off to Port Jackson - was clearly designed to give the pond a deep belly laugh of the ironic Sierra Madre kind ...

But to be fair, d'Abrera is just, in her own way, doing an Akker Dakker ... and reminding us that the British were bringing truth, justice and land dispossession to the lawless, anarchistic, primitive, cannibalistic, stone age peoples, mere savages, without a flintlock to their name, who infested this continent like useless cockroaches ...so that they might experience the noble joys of being wiped out by the British by way of direct action and diseases of a European civilisational kind ...

Oh wait, weren't cockies and rabbits and sparrows and such like useless imports?

Never mind, in the d'Abrera spirit, the pond offers a few more examples of western civilisation at its finest ...






11 comments:

  1. As Churchill, the 'greatest ever Briton', said "I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."

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  2. How many of these bloody people have a hook at the IPA funded by Rupert and others that claim Righteousness.

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    1. All I can say is that the Murdochrat and IPA business plans must be in failure status is they have to rely on the services of Bella D'Abrera (and Rita Panhandler). Oh, bring on the day.

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    2. Gary Johns was in the news today - the Charities Tsar wants to put charities he doesn't like in the van along with the refugees, unions, internet users etc etc. Revocations of charitable status are up, up, up! under Johns' regime, with many more to follow.

      You remember, Gary Johns - sometime Labor member who had his come-to-Jesus moment and became a founder of the Bennelong Society, an organisation of old white men (with a few useful idiots in tow) seemingly committed to idea that people got indigenous affairs right in the 19th century and should never have changed. Gary Johns, who is a regular columnist in the Catholic Boys' Daily, and is pushing hard to replace the Onion Muncher in Dorothy's banner.

      Oh, yeah, Gary Johns, IPA luminary...

      "How many"? werewolf asks. Well you could do one of those "I'm having a psychotic break" conspiracy charts of the network of cabals, with photos connected by red string and drawing pins, and Post It notes with lots of question marks, but at the short answer is "all of them, really". They all know how to play the tune their master wants, regardless of their think tank de jour.

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  3. Totally and utterly off-topic I readily admit, but this really caught my fancy:
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/24/cape-town-to-run-out-of-water-by-12-april-amid-worst-drought-in-a-century

    Oh my, couldn't possibly have anything to do with that Leftie fantasy "global warming" could it.

    I wonder if us Victorians could seel 'em some of our excess desalinated water - just to defray our costs a wee bit.

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    1. Prediction: if and when this issue becomes better known in Australia, right-wing loons will blame black African corruption, incompetence etc

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  4. Pretty funny when you think about it. Boatloads of criminals & the New South Wales Corps come to spread the rule of law & enlightenment. Surely we have moved on from this sort of jingoistic tosh.

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  5. Eric Lobbecke is definitely on drugs – high octane Koolaid no doubt! Consider the latest of his increasingly puerile illustrations.

    A bewildered kangaroo replete with an inquisitive joey stands on an Antipodean strand suspiciously observing a multitude of leather-bound tomes washing onto the shore.

    What can it possibly mean? Oh I get it now! The kangaroo represents the primitive, godless, clueless inhabitants of a distant southern land and the books represent the glorious arrival of colonial British law and order onto Terra Nullius…

    Words fail me!

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    1. Nicely spotted Kez. The pond routinely refuses to comment on Lobbecke, for fear he completely disappear up his fundament, but suggests he might drop a tab of acid to get himself into shape for the day's work ... how else to live with the shame?

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  6. That's a bit of a shock to hear about Bernard D'Abrera. I always thought his book on Australian Butterflies was pretty good. Of course I only looked at the pictures - mainly photographs from the British Museum. I suppose I could have another look to see if it's full of stupidities and bad writing.
    Nabokov was a lepidopterist, so maybe the writing standard in that field is set too high.

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