Housing is the perfect example of status, the currency of all human society. Both the 'Left' and 'Right' in…

Housing is the perfect example of status, the currency of all human society. Both the 'Left' and 'Right' in Australia converge on the same idiot idea to fix housing. 'More supply'. It's irrelevant what political teams we have. 1/6 https://t.co/XZUXf5tmgV

Politics, as we call it, does not determine how our societies function. It's a thin veneer of status games overlaid upon the top of the material realities of societies. What always, without exception, determines outcomes is those material realities. 2/6

So with housing, the reason our beloved 'Left' and 'Right' converge upon the same fake solution is that what really drives housing also drives those teams. Social status. Damaging the housing gravy train would fundamentally undermine status hierarchies in Australia. 3/6

Not just in an impoverished sense of status, as in reputation and bragging rights. The status and identity of millions of Australians is dependent upon the entire housing industry and its myriad associated networks. 4/6

Which is why our beloved cartoon teams, the Left and Right of politics, converge upon resisting actual change to this status quo. It reveals very clearly that 'politics' doesn't determine things. It's a show, a performance, that we love, team sports. 5/6

Status determines things. And beyond that, the material realities of existence determine things. The former loves to ignore the latter. When it does that for long enough, material realities smash it with various catastrophes. Only that shifts status hierarchies. /end