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Thanks, Brian. This sentence in your essay stood out for me: “Human creativity, by contrast, thrives on disorder, experimentation, innovation—not a script based on what sold well in the past.” When people from different backgrounds or different cultures or different economic strata are brought together with open, curious minds innovation happens. They mash things up, push forward often changing directions and learning from their our mistakes. Machines (computers/phones/etc.) should be used to support the creative effort not replace it.

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Hi all, here in Australia we have just had an election for the federal govt, The born to rule liberal party(Right wing) needed to pick up bout 12 to 15 seats to take back government with minor party support or 20 seats to govern in its own right.

It got thumped losing somewhere between 10 and 15 seats (counting continues) its leader aped the Canadian result by losing his seat, the first time in Australian history an opposition leader has lost his own seat.

It's blaming Trumps tariffs, the governing Labour Parties lies, hate media that didn't support them, This ignores the fact our biggest news organisation is Murdoch,

Anyway I was chatting with a neighbour Sunday morning after the Saturday election and he said he couldn't recall a first term government picking up seats at it first re-election campaign and I borrowed Brians thoughts before I read them, I said to the neighbour "If we accept that parliament is a place of excellence and big ideas the liberal party had gone on an extensive search for mediocrity and kept finding it"

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