30 October

This is why I think the NDIS will not only ultimately fail, it may in fact consume our entire democracy and sink it. A big caveat upfront, I’m a huge fan of the NDIS and what it represents. But I think we’ve introduced it into a context that will engulf it, and everything else besides. The problem is this is an age of continuous invention of ‘disability’. Like this piece, another new condition. Our response to the destruction of our societies by wealthy elites is to go inwards, and invent an almost infinite number of new forms of identity from our suffering. Rather than tackle the simple root cause of this suffering, which is the hijacking of all of society by these same wealthy elites. It should make us gasp that the NDIS is already twice as expensive as Medicare. The suffering is real, and out there, but we’re not going to fix it by consuming the entire public budget in supporting every new invented identity from this suffering. We need to end the suffering, not support the disability-identities.