Perspective

On Saturday morning I rose and promptly plonked myself in the lounge chair to watch a replay of the mighty Hawks win from the previous night. It's probably the first time since the 2008 grand final that I have watched the replay of an entire game. As I sat there I realised that some of the umpiring decisions (just some, not all!) that had resulted in me giving some serious verbal advice to the umps on the previous night now seemed to be quite innocuous.

I often get frustrated reading our newspapers, particularly the commentaries and letter pages because people seem to be incapable of balanced thinking. If you formulated your thinking purely from reading The Age then, over the last week you would have come to the conclusion that John Howard has been the most evil person to have ever set foot on earth. Fancy trying to install such as man into cricket's top job. Long live the despotic rulers of Africa & Sth America. Mugabe you are a star. Chavez come down under and show us how it is done!

As for the Herald Sun, well, what can you say. This paper specialises in the lowest common denominator as do shows such as Today Tonight & A Current Affair.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a newspaper that provides solid unbiased facts, allowing us to know the truth rather than the nonsense we have now with selective reporting and culturally biased commentators (and editors...and letter writers from Fitzroy and Brunswick East).

As a person who suffers from turnstile fever I can understand why this happens. But once our main focus ceases to be seeking out truth, and instead about entrenching our positions, we get into awful trouble.

Twisting the truth to make yourselves sound wise isn't wisdom. It's the furthest thing from wisdom—it's animal cunning, devilish conniving. Whenever you're trying to look better than others or get the better of others, things fall apart and everyone ends up at the others' throats.James 3:13