Surviving A Fair Go

Robert
Treborlang
Australia

Surviving A Fair Go
While the French produced their baffling ideas on Romanticism and the Germans discovered the potent laws of Dialectics, the pioneers of the antipodes were also busy, giving the world the complex eighteenth-century Illuminati-inspired concept of the Fair Go. No other theory encapsulates so successfully a general outlook on life, which decrees that innocent or guilty, good or bad, honest or criminal, Underdog or Tall Poppy, are ultimately all equal in the eyes of law of Fair Go.

  Although this idea may not appear at first to be obvious, even the most cursory examination of the philosophy behind the Fair Go ideal will yield some surprising beliefs.

  Fair Go is about giving people with the least qualifications the most responsible of jobs. It is about giving the most untalented the chance to be creative.

  Fair Go is about letting people make complete fools of themselves. It is also about silently enjoying everyone's mistakes.

  If some friends, for instance, happen to start a small business they know nothing about and their initial efforts meet with success, then it means the system works because they've been given a Fair Go.

  But then, the moment things start to go into a spin and nosedive towards bankruptcy proceedings, it's also natural that you should give them a Fair Go by leaving them to flounder on their own.

  This, you must point out in case they get upset, should not depress them as by the unwritten laws of a Fair Go, though they are presently finished and wiped out, they are more than at liberty to start up again.

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