No one can be that shallow! Can they?

On the way to cross the street to avoid mobs of unsavouries

There are too may perversions in the world.

First off, we have the decrepriating fashion sense of the younger generation feed by an explosion of Supre and its male equivalent, Industrie. We also have a pandemic that is fake products wannable consumers latch onto who for someone reason are obvious to recognise the embarrassment they bring. We also have situations where unsterilised vargrants of society pull in more money than me by simply popping dirty children out. We also have Christmas around the corner; soaring oil prices; astronomical property values; people who ignore the laws of other countries and people who are blinded by righteousness who will fight to change those laws and now, race riots.

It is disgusting what is happening in Sydney. I feel sickened by the scenes of rampant chaos and the powerless law enforcers who for someone reason carry weapons yet make the choice not to use them. But more importantly, I feel embarrassed.

Sydney is a world class city, ranking high amongst the elite cities of the world. Sydney has been judged, many times as the favourite destination of travellers and is among the top three as the best city in the world in live in. We even have a shopping district whose price per square ranks along side Champs Elysees, Ginza, Times Square and Causeway Bay. A pristine harbour and foreshore that is envied by all the great cities. And now, all of this is at threat.

It embarrasses me to think that riots are occurring because of race. We all rank equally in Australia. Everyone is afforded the same opportunities and choices as the next person. There is no such thing as a second class citizen.

Unless of course if you are rich, then things are different and it should be this factor that drives any form of rioting. Sydney is an elite city and it should be the elitist culture that we should be rioting against. Even the riots in Paris were based on elitism: where the poor rioted against their own misfortune of unsuccess.

Riots should not be formed on race, rather, we should a East vs. West riot where the Mercedes people fight against second hand cars. Or how the fabulously rich are paying the lowest marginal tax rates vs. hard working high marginal tax payers. Or the vintage champagne crowd running the VB drinkers out of town. Or the new model Rolex crowd vs. the digital watchers. Or the Hermes Birkin people wielding their ten thousand bags against cheap market purchases.

There is only one casualty in all of these perversions: the poor residents of the beach side suburbs who will experience the most rapid fall in property values ever faced in Sydney.

posted by tykang @ 12/14/2005 10:21:00 PM