During 11 years of activism, public speaking, observing and working with various groups & stakeholders on the edge of Australian politics, I’ve noticed one outstanding constant.

It’s the battle between individual personalities and committees.

I believe it’s possibly an ancient contention between what is essentially real fanatical belief and insipid bureaucracy.

This is a contest between individual passion and group-pessimism, imagine a fire and a wet blanket.

One is the believer, who seeks to destroy his nation’s enemies and reshape everything without compromise, and he knows full well he’ll probably die trying especially if he lacks the necessary support. But irregardless of the consequences he throws himself at the task.

The others, while teetering on the edge of belief fail to fully grasp it and instead form a rabble of skittish detractors, who end up existing in spite of our believers and only to ask for permissions within existing framework, primarily to preserve a stream of income.

We (Australians) should probably break this cycle and (at the very least) stop burning our believers for the sake of titles and imagined status.