By Darryl Mason
An exciting ABC News headline declaring Victory for Australians who know what is bad for them, but who give not a fuck, regardless:
Wait a sec....Okay, I'm still a plodder when it comes to screen captures. That wasn't the full headline.
Damn.
That doesn't sound like any kind of fun.
The New Poverty could be expected to take care of too many people smoking and drinking, unless they brew their own beer and wine and grow their own smokeables, and let's face it, the dedicated drinkers and smokers will do exactly that. Obesity? Toxic intakes of cheese and peanut butter are expensive, and you kind of get the feeling, watching even mild fortunes vanish, that most people will be doing a lot more walking. Very soon.
So lay off all the expensive mood-blackening ads flash-blasting our evenings with death-plagued declarations that even the few occasional relieving luxuries left for the many are actually suicidal acts for which appalling guilt is mandatory.
