Sundays are now great days for keeping the radio on, all day from early. Sunday mornings are no longer made dull, miserable and slow by Melisma (or Miasma, as I used to rename it), the awful music program ABC Radio National used to play in this timeslot.
I am sure that Miasma was purposefully designed to make you feel like death, and that Sundays were intended to be suitable days for dying on. Until many of the shops in the city began opening between midday and 5PM in Perth, Sundays were grim, dead days here where nothing stirred and nothing was going on.
The Calvinism that is at the heart of local politics and upper-middle class Anglo culture was responsible for that and the appalling licensing laws we still have here. Calvinism is a perversion of Protestantism that, in its most reactionary interpretations, has set up the numerically limited seperation of the elect from the damned, the rich and therefore blessed by God from the poor and therefore condemned, and that was responsible for just as many murders by church and state as the evil regimes it sought to oppose. In other words evil to oppose evil.
Little Johnnie Howard is, at heart, a Calvinist.
11:04:28 AM 
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