A very sad day. You will be missed, Bob.
Goodbye.
And so it goes…
Vale Bob Ellis.
03 Sunday Apr 2016
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Nothing changes, that’s my thesis, there’ll always be the lower orders. There’ll be more clothes shops, that’s all, more cafes, a pimp on every corner. Australia is a backwater but its pimps are world class.
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Nah, people are too busy with Football, Meatpies, Kangaroos & Holden Cars. Throw in gambling & alcohol and it’s nirvana. The MSM is too busy to keep us too busy.
Get a job (if you’re lucky) and a mortgage and we become slaves to the boss at work and to the banks. Meanwhile the big end of town is very happy ripping out our natural resources with their multinational corporation mates to screw us more and we too are very happy to bend over. Sheep baa baaa…
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On second thoughts, I feel sorry for you all. Truly.
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I feel sorry for humans. Because they are stupid. Slaves to earthly desires, greedy and selfish. Big fish eat small fish. I’m alright jack – f#@k you. Dog eat dog world.
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“Lefties” all talk no action.
Nothing changes, not really, the idea that sent slumboys like me to Pentridge in the 1960s is still running in Toorak and Brighton.
Words. Talk. Self-aggrandisement. “Anyone like another wine?”.
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“Lefties” all talk no action.
When you have the law, the police force and the army on your side, the workers have no fatherland. You make a noise (an action) your head gets chopped off, figuratively speaking.
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I shared the ABC story of his passing on FB, not a like or a comment. So quickly forgotten. Perhaps if a had a Kardashian arse?
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I fell in love with him and Mungo back in the dark days whence the Nation Review was lit and sparkled, the only light and sparkle in the dimmest of times, thanks to these two enormously brave, enormously eloquent, enormously lyrical, enormously articulate and, in a cave of fuckwitted Right Wing mongrels, enormously Left Wing, genuinely left wing.
They came with Gough and that, it must be concluded, was the Titan Prometheus’ will: the will to finally rid this country of the ignorance and the darkness that had ruled supreme only minutes before their entrance.
Reading their columns back then I felt as if Plato’s Allegory of the Cave was a description of those very times and that I, too, like the man in that allegory, was taken by the hand and guided up, onto the surface of the earth where I could see the sun and work out what was real and what was shadow.
I owe Bob that period of hope and the enlightenment, not only from his articles, of course but from a great deal more of his. He was part of that battalion that marched through our cultural and educational institutions and shot lethal questions at that starchy, musty, bitter, ever denying, ever, nullifying, ever dictatorial, ever religiously hypocritical, ever nugatory old guard. A battalion that I miss desperately and hints of which I see in the far stretches of the internet horizon.
I read his Table Talk religiously, even after he has banned me for a million or so years. I argued with him, I disagreed with him and at times I found him quite unreasonable but I have never forgotten the fact that if it weren’t for him and very few others like him, this country would be still fumbling in the pitch dark of ignorance.
I thank you Bob.
How terribly he will must be missed by his family and his friends!
My profoundest commiserations to them.
May the gods of Olympus invite him to their table to continue the talk.
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I’ll miss his columns and his blog.
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My fondest memory was him being interviewed on the courthouse steps after his publisher was sued for defaming abbott and costello. He didn’t really give a shit about those two buffoons of elephantine dimensions.
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CGAF
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I used to like his Nation Review pieces when I were but a school kid. I think a fair description of the man is “irascible” and clearly not erasable.
Sad that the Goddess didn’t give him another tilt at Bronwyn Bishop☹️
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I’m so sad to hear this. He knew it was coming and yet he fought on. Brave man.
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