Quantum Leap in Politics

[Like much of what gets posted this month, this is a bit late. It's a measure of how busy life can be when you are not working for pay.]

The Uncertainty Principal in action
How slow is Kevin Rudd? He’s confused by the discrepancy between what the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister say about travel warnings for Indonesia. The PM says the situation hasn’t changed, yet the FM says it has.

C’mon Kevin, it’s not as though this is unprecedented. Wasn’t it only a week ago that Brendan Nelson, the Defence Minister, said we’re in Iraq to secure oil supplies? Yet the PM says oil has nothing to do with it.

Clearly politics has taken a Quantum Leap. Like Schrodinger’s cat which is both alive and not alive, policy issues in Australia are now This and Not This simultaneously. For example, there’s something called Work Choices, but there isn’t (well, not by that name, anyway). And it goes back a long way. We’ll never ever have a GST. But we’ve got it. It’s the Uncertainty Principle in action.

So Kevin, get with the strength. Don’t get bogged down in Green politics. The new wave is … well, Wave politics. No need for explicit promises, core or otherwise. Just give us a range of options on any issue – the more the better – and tell us that the Probability Wave will take care of the outcome according to the dynamics of the universe. But be sure to tell us that we can influence the dynamics of the universe. You know what I mean – the Secret – the Law of Attraction! Just tell us to want something – want something – and expect it to manifest.

No. On second thoughts, just stick to what you’re doing, because you’re doing really well, mate. John Howard is going to lose the next election, because he asked once too often: Who do people trust? The Uncertainty Principle is good in its place – which is the sub-atomic realm: not in politics.