How do we put this to the people who fund the arts in the hope that 'culture' will somehow spring out of the manure of government funding? If you don't understand the broad spectrum of the arts, you're obsolete; and by obsolete, you're the laughing stock of the world.
Over the past couple of days, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been channeling his predecessor and whipping out a bit of a three-word slogan. He first broke it in on 7.30 with Leigh Sales on Monday night. Then ABC Radio in the morning, before heading to 3AW and dropping it four times in less than two minutes. The phrase: “continuity and change”.
In Turnbull’s eyes, this is an eloquent way of commenting on the ongoing drama between his current government and that of Tony Abbott. “The bottom line is there is continuity [many elements of old policy] and there is change [leadership, number of raw onions eaten, et al]” he said in that first radio interview. But, to the rest of the world it looks a bit like this:
“Continuity and change” is the official slogan of Veep‘s main character Selina Meyer (played by Julia Louis Dreyfus) as she runs for the US presidency in the show’s fourth season. It appears on her campaign bus, on her logo, and (as BuzzFeed‘s Mark DiStefano pointed out) is regularly whipped out in the same kind of interviews Turnbull has been facing this week.And there in the nutshell is what is so out-of-touch about this Coalition Government - even with Malcolm Turnbull taking over from even-more-out-of-touch Tony Abbott - it is still hopelessly out of touch with popular culture. All of a sudden they are laughing at the Australian Prime Minister who adopted the most meaningless slogan screenwriters could think up, as his campaign slogan. It's like the Australian Prime Minister went and sucker punched his own face for absolutely no gainful purpose whatsoever. It's fucking hopeless, really.
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