Future

What is the future?

In particular, what is the future of civility in various parts of the world?

What is the key to a healthy, happy future, and for whom, how do you know?

Civility is associated with accurate assessments.  It is also associated with responsible responses to those assessments.

How much time, and money, have you preferred investing in well-informed kindness in each year of your life so far?

How much time, and money, do you intend to invest in that pursuit in future, and why?

How do you assess probabilities in relation to likelihoods, risks and possibilities?

How do you assess the likelihood of future political landslides?

How do you assess the risks associated with extreme weather events?

How have you assessed whether you may or may not retain access to Civility Today in the future?

How do you usually attempt to insure yourself against likely unpleasant future scenarios

Perhaps you do not regard civility as an essential skill, whether in terms of providing a suitable daily news service or a suitable government or a suitable income or a suitable world for people in all locations, of all generations, including future ones, to appreciate and enjoy.

What has been your relationship with consumerism over the past few years or decades, and why?

What do you believe you future relationship with consumerism will be, and why?

How are you assisting good industry practices other than by investing in the quality analysis of events, quality products, quality services, quality interpersonal experiences and quality possibilities?

How have you been investing in thoughtful discussions about the future of industries?

Where have you been discovering the truth about the future, including the future of a particular society or district or career, and how do you know? 

There is much to learn about and from past societies, particularly through history, science and archaeology.

What do you know about ceramic artifacts, and metal ones, and the past purposes, and future purposes, of those items.

How is it possible to learn about future societies without understanding the patterns of past problems, and current ones?

What is your acquaintance with the future authentic you?

How do you gain knowledge about time and your possible future uses of it?

What do you know about the ways in which reporting on current events will most likely influence future perceptions of this time in history?

How, if at all, is it possible to report upon the future?

The future is not a fact.

What can be reported upon, of course, is an informed assessment of possible future problems.

What do you currently know about effectively addressing the evil of greed, and how did you acquire that knowledge?

Who is not investing in civility appropriately, if at all, and why?

You may be aware that the history of civility in Australia has been a strange one, as has the history of incivility.

Indeed the history of civility and incivility in every part of the world has been strange, at least according to the official policy position of the Adelaide Adagia News Ensemble.

How do you attempt to understand strangeness in relation to the past, present and future?

What do you identify as strange, and why?

Perhaps you are regarded as strange in various contexts.

The Civility Party of Australia claims to uphold the highest standards of decision-making, in accordance with current needs and future circumstances:

You may wish to know more about the Civility Party of Australia, particularly if you are an Australian citizen or hope to become one soon:



How do you define justice and injustice in relation to the past, the present and the future, and why?

How do you define justice and injustice in relation to the local and the global, and why?

What do you know about the future of trauma, and how do you know it?

 

 

Perhaps you often experience psychological trauma when accessing news reports.

How do you usually assess the narratives associated with news reporting, and news editing?

Where have you already sought and/or received training to support the improvement of your future physical, digital and/or ethereal leadership?

 

 

Who is your current guide to the future, and why?

What do you usually offer the present and future people of Australia, and why?

What do you usually offer the present and future people of other parts of the world, and why?

What do you believe will be the future of respect and disrespect, and why?

Perhaps you are seeking access to a guidebook to help you navigate the future.

How do you currently prefer to address conflict, whether the conflict is psychological, financial, military, political or interpersonal or otherwise, and why?

Why do purportedly democratic governments so often fail to support and protect citizens at the worst times in their lives, at home and abroad, while simultaneously expanding 'defence' spending?

What does defence mean to you?

Why is most transport still so noisy, smelly, dangerous, polluting and expensive, even in Australia?

Why is transport infrastructure especially expensive, yet unreasonably encouraged as a plaything for many politicians while urgent societal needs are ignored?

Why is housing in Australia too expensive, for particularly vulnerable categories of people
 
When, if ever, have politicians in Australia attempted to hold the Government of Australia to account for allowing vulnerable members of the public to be treated without dignity by public servants and other publicly-funded workers?

Why do politicians and journalists so often inhabit a perceptual bubble entirely divorced from the lived experience of most citizens?

What encourages people to be involved in organised crime if not greed and/or desperation

Vast sums of dubiously acquired money continue to be gambled by domineering political parties in Australia.  The unjust aim is to win the major prize of future political power, namely the future use, and abuse, of public funds.

Politicians make electoral laws to suit their political machines, not the public interest.

Each vote in Australia only really counts in as much as it raises revenue for political machines.

So-called safe seats are particularly lucrative for the party dominating in that district.

So-called marginal seats are particularly expensive to win and hold.

But the public always loses.

The political trolls in power are the biggest hypocrites of all when it comes to addressing societal ills, including political corruption, hubris and conflicts of interest.

Political trolls in power silence the dissent expressed by the traumatised.

Political trolls in power despise the reasonable protection of privacy provided through to online anonymity of avatars and pseudonyms.

Political trolls label legitimate political activists as trolls, thereby eroding democracy further.

Yet a peaceful future requires the strengthening, not the weakening, of democracy.

If you are interested in reflecting on the possible future likelihood of political civility and respect, particularly if you are an Australian citizen, you may have already examined the following references:

Equipment acquisition: surprise from the skies
 
Soryu submarine deal; Japanese insiders warn sub program will cost more, hurt Australian jobs
 
Tony Abbott pledged open tender for submarines to win over SA Liberals.
 
Australian shipbuilding; for the Abbott government it's just politics
 
Foreign builders of Australia's new submarines are using hand-delivered messages after hackers try to steal their plans 

The Hon Kim Beazley AC joins Lockheed Martin Australia Board
 
Defence warns French company DCNS to keep submarine design safe after India leak
 
Abbott urges government to consider nuclear submarines
 
Fighter jet hacking embarrassing: Beazley
 
Future Submarines program hit by fraud allegations
 
Australian Defence Force spends over $10 billion in US arms in four years
 
Christopher Pyne called out for taking defence job within 18 months of leaving Parliament 

Christopher Pyne discussed defence industry job while still a member of Cabinet, consultancy firm confirms

Christopher Pyne formally warned he is banned from lobbying for defence contractor
 
Managing SEA 1000: Australia's Attack class submarines
 
Tony Abbott dismissed official Defence advice on submarines, Turnbull claims
 
Australia's next submarine: Did we get it right
 
The strange submarine saga: vital yet vexed 
 
Christopher Pyne's firm hired by defence contractor awarded $98m in government work while he was minister.

Protectionism torpedoes sub project - and governments national security image

Australia would be wise not to pound 'war drums' over Taiwan with so much at stake
 
Scott Morrison warns France to meet multi-billion-dollar submarine deal deadline
 
Why is Australia still investing in a balanced defence force? 

Should Australia go to war against China in defence of Taiwan?
 
Australia to get nuclear-powered submarines, will scrap $90b program to build French-designed subs 
 
Why Australia wanted out of its French submarine deal
 
China condemns AUKUS pact, Tony Abbott flags 'common danger', Kevin Rudd urges caution 

Nuclear white elephants: Australia's new submarine deal

How Xi lost Australia
 
Former US navy secretary now Scott Morrison's Aukus middleman on submarine plan
 
Have we reached peak stupidity?

'Someone lied': French foreign minister accuses Australia of submarine betrayal in latest broadside

As history, including the 1987 Australian Defence White Paper, clearly indicates, strategic outlooks do not arise from pieces of paper.  They arise from ever-changing global circumstances.
 
Talking up war helps the profits of purported 'defence' companies, but at what cost, and to whom?

What, if anything, can you recall of 1987 or even 1997 or 2007 or 2017?

How do you imagine the world in 2027?


What do you know about the Joint Strike Fighter program?

What do you know about homelessness in Australia?

What do you believe will contribute to respect in the world over the next five or six years, and why?

Australia's domineering political parties do not care about vulnerability and its causes

They continue to encourage profiteering with the slogan of "jobs and growth".

Meanwhile, traumatised people on low or no incomes continue to be the labour fodder for greed machines owned by political donors.

What is actually being defended by 'defence' industries if not vulnerable current and future citizens? 

How do you assess the meaning of defence, whether in relation to royalty, society, citizens or the state?

How do you usually assess civility and incivility in relation to vulnerability?

The world remains under the threat of catastrophic climate change and nuclear annihilation.

Evil people continue to try to make money out of dangerous substances, whether radioactive ones or fossil fuel ones, while the consequences will linger for thousands, and possibly millions, of years.

The past arrogance of the nuclear industry continues to threaten the viability of life everywhere, with or without a pandemic.

The past arrogance of the fossil fuel industry continues to threaten the viability of life everywhere, with or without a pandemic.

How does your attitude towards the future inform your investment practices?

If you are appropriately investing in elegant egalitarianism, how is it related to your approach towards investing in improving political practices?

How artistically have you been investing in improving political practices? 

How politically have you been investing in the experience of art

How wisely have you been investing in improved constitutions?

What has been your approach to investing in the public sphere this year, and why?

Please be aware that you may not have access to Civility Today for very much longer.

Perhaps you will not remain alive for very much longer, either.

Perhaps such a thought makes you feel quite vulnerable.

How carefully are you investing in evidence, and for what reasons?

How are you investing in the delights of adequately ethical compatibility?  

Perhaps you are unaware of how much psychological distress is taking place in the present, in every society, in an ongoing way, and how much has taken place in the past.

Perhaps you are unaware of the structural and systemic reasons for that distress, the psychological causes, the medical causes and the societal causes.

Perhaps you are unaware of the ways in which you can help to alleviate distress, principally through the expression of civility and decorum.

What is your acquaintance with necessary ethics in relation to good faith and other good investments?

How do you usually think about, and express, morality?

What is your preferred approach to investing in pleasure at present, and why?

How much pleasure and displeasure do you feel about the future, and why?

Perhaps you gain pleasure in learning about the history of royalty, and/or experiencing news about members of royal families, and/or acquiring gossip about publicly prominent individuals regardless of their family backgrounds.

How do you usually assess merit if not in terms of good faith?

Civility Today is primarily about improving the quality of citizenship, in non-oppressive, non-embarrassing ways.

This publication is also devoted to improving the accountability of discourteous politicians towards courteous citizens, without intruding into the private lives of anyone unnecessarily.
 
How should the future of politics be considered when politicians are willing to use their own family members as self-promotional props?
 
What is your acquaintance with crony capitalism and other forms of corruption, particularly as practiced in Australia?   

What do you know about dynastic nepotism, whether experienced through elitist private schooling, substantial inheritances, social connections or political favouritism?

How are you investing in the preservation and improvement of public services to protect the vulnerable from harm?

How is your philanthropy contributing to current and future improvements?

Without decorum, there is no civility.  

Without civility, democracy is impossible to uphold satisfactorily.

All rude behaviours are intrusive and unwarranted.  They are abusive.  They can be very frightening indeed for the victims, especially if they have already been victims of similar experiences or know of traumatised people who have been in such situations.

You may possibly even know of people who did not survive those experiences.

How have you been attempting to help people overcome short-term difficulties and thrive into the future?

What have your investigations revealed to you about the future, and how do you know?

What is your current sentiment towards the future, and why?

How long have you had that sentiment, and how do you know?

What will cause your sentiment to change, for better or worse, and why?

How have you been assessing the future?
 
Such an assessment is, after all, the purpose of, and expression of, leadership.
 
What, if any, are your goals at present, and why?
 
What, if any, are your plans in relation to each of the goals you possess?
 
How deeply have you taken ownership of your goals?
 
Who owns the debts possibly associated with them?
 
How gentle are you towards planet Earth and its current and future inhabitants? 

What is your acquaintance with the informed practice of enlightened gentleness?

 

 
What do you know about suitably gentle multilateralism?

Perhaps you regard yourself as a gentleman or a gentlewoman or a gentle transgender person or a gentle child or a gentle adolescent.

If so, how do you know when (your) gentleness is under threat, and from what and/or whom?

Regardless of your current sense  of identity, what have been your personal experiences of various pandemics, epidemics and governments?

And what do you anticipate your future experience will be?

Perhaps you usually consider controversies to be associated with insults.

Perhaps you regard inappropriate publicity to be an insult to human dignity.

How do you think about controversy in relation to the civility of well-informed kindness?

How have you been thinking about the future in relation to climate matters, and why? 

How do you make an analysis about the future of family life in relation to civility, familiarity, money, climate, health and history?

Perhaps you usually think about families in relation to history rather than the future.

How have you been investing in understanding over your lifetime, especially in relation to environmental matters?

What have you accomplished in that regard, and how do you know?

Any policy apparently devoted to net zero carbon emissions several decades into the future is a scam, regardless of the timeline associated with that scam.

What are your main interests in relation to the future of culture, and why?

What do you believe to be the main features of a good culture?

How do those features arise, and how are they maintained?

How do you define the essential features of quality leadership?

How do you separate fact and fiction in relation to future travel options and opportunities? 

The Adelaide Adagia courtesy experts continue to offer their elegantly egalitarian services to help you prevent the destructive practices of greedy bullies, everywhere.

Civility Today is one of those services.

Perhaps you regard the work of the ensemble as irrelevant to you, especially if you are not an Adelaidean.

Yet the ensemble undoubtedly provides the world's finest and most enlightened news services.

The associated courtesy experts have been involved in the daily provision of Civility Today since its beginnings, as you may have noticed.

Perhaps you have had the courtesy to assist them, with or without moving around in geographical terms.

As you may already be aware, this information is currently available to you philanthropically and exclusively from the library of Frugality Cottage in the entirely ethereal Adelaidezone Digital Arts Quarter. 

Without philanthropic access to that library, you will probably not have future access to Civility Today at all, wherever you may be in the world, unless you provide sufficient evidence of your own, enlightened philanthropy.

What do you currently do to improve understanding in and of the world, and why?

And what are your future intentions in that regard, and why?

You may be interested in comparing the past with the present, and/or with the possible future.

If you are quite keenly interested in the way cottages and similar structures were built in the past, you may already be familiar with the history of house construction in South Australia

But what do you know about the future of housing construction, in any part of the world, and how do you know it? 

You may prefer comparing the history of the Adelaidezone with the history of Adelaide rather than make any comparisons between the past, the present and the future.

What, if anything, has the history of Adelaide taught you about the future of the world?

How have you imagined the future in relation to quality, including quality of life?

Perhaps you usually associate cottages with the past rather than with the present and future.

Perhaps you regard civility as old fashioned.

Perhaps you regard rudeness as a modern and effective way to achieve progress.

How do you usually assess economics in relation to past, present and future corruption, and why?

If you have been virtually exploring Frugality Cottage, perhaps you have been thinking about the cottage and industries mainly in relation to the past rather than the present and future.

How much time have you invested in thinking about the topic of Australia over the past few years, and why?

How much time have you invested in thinking about the rest of the world, and why?

The character of a location has often developed from earlier centuries.  If it has achieved fame for any reason, it inevitably attracts tourists, day visitors and other persons in search of the picturesque and the quaint, or the glamorous.  Such individuals may possibly be attracted to the nostalgia of an idealised past.  They may even be seeking an idealised future.

The present moment is liminal.  It is the transition point between the past and future.

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