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This year will mark the 30th anniversary of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho, a fever dream in which a New York investment banker carries out – or fantasises about – acts of unspeakable violence. The mind of the banker, Patrick Bateman, is crammed with the junk of tapped-out 1980s yuppie consumerism: Zegna silk suits, Rembrandt toothpaste, Versace everything, a parade of clubs and restaurants that died with the Reagan presidency. In a post-modern morality tale, the pollution of all these consumables inside Bateman erupts into sadism and cruelty. The Bateman fantasy contains 80 mentions of Donald Trump and Trump brands. This is 30 years ago. Trump was finished, a remnant of 1980s excess and a symbol of a repulsive past. He was out with the trash: in Ellis’s satirical eyes, a perfect hero for the soulless Bateman. ....
Risky SCG decision puts health advice to the Test We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Risky SCG decision puts health advice to the Test January 4, 2021 12.10am Normal text size Advertisement The Premier reassures us that the health advice is that the SCG cricket Test can be held safely with 24,000 people attending at one time ( No open and shut case , January 2-3). This advice presumably comes from the same origin as the advice that the Ruby Princess was low risk , and could safely dock and disgorge its passengers without quarantine. That advice resulted in the infection of over 900 people and the death of at least 28. Many epidemiologists and infectious diseases specialists are now saying that allowing the Test to proceed with this crowd could be a super-spreader event. If the Premier chooses to allow the Test to proceed, any resultant surge in cases will be entirely her responsibility. - ....
Inside Australia, being born allowed means youâre not now facing the rather more blunt-scissored hack at your JobSeeker benefit. Being born allowed means you donât belong to those industries regarded as unhelpful to the ruling cause and left to wither and die. On the other hand, the lower northern beaches is Sydneyâs spiritual home of the born allowed. When the Avalon outbreak started, there were complaints in Manly about why we, 25 kilometres from the cluster, were swept up in a lockdown dictated by the arbitrary Northern Beaches Council border, established by the current state governmentâs amalgamations. Surely it would be more tolerant to enclose the cluster by reasserting the pre-amalgamation Pittwater council border? ....