9 April

The motivation for the NDIS is wonderful. But it’s a public administration nightmare, it’s punitively expensive. Astronomically, cancerously expensive. If people deny this reality, the NDIS will lose its ‘social licence’, as the article says. Reality will intervene, it’s swallowing the entire national budget. Unless cost controls are introduced, it will die. Simple as that. Kidultism is already responding by turning the emotion knob to 11. The Culture of the Feels. There’s nothing more dishonest than using feelings to ignore realities. The NDIS was always going to be an explosive thing, because kidult culture, adolescent culture, is a culture of grievance. Everything is a grievance, everybody wants compensation for their grievance. What Robert Hughes called the Culture of Complaint. The genuine need for support for disability was quickly swamped by a tidal wave of confected complaint and demands.