14 October

This happened in Lithgow on Friday. Cut water to much of the town for the weekend. I know people resent the idea of kidult culture, but it was another classic example of it. What was the overwhelming response, from the public? Carping, whining, whinging, trying to find somebody to blame, sinking the boot into Council etc. There were some attempts by members of the public to help those impacted, though often these are performative games too, it becomes an imitated thing, like bushfire relief concerts (that end in chaos because they’re purely about public displays of ‘my emotional response’.) Remember the phrase, ‘the Spirit of the Blitz?’ The only thing that long-term stops humans acting as eternal rival teenage gangs is a level of threat so enormous that they have to pull together, or die. It’s desperation. And if you study the Blitz, you’ll discover that even that was a struggle, to enforce compliance with emergency measures.