As a Window Cleaner I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in. Listening to people that comment on political, social and cultural issues I've noticed that most of their material reflects some kind of a underlying belief that some how things were better once and with just a little effort we can set it right again. They're looking for solutions and rooting for particular results and I think this limits the tone and substance of what they say. They're talented people but they're nothing really more than cheerleaders attached to a specific wish for outcome. I DON'T FEEL SO CONFINED. I frankly don't care how it all turns out in this country or anywhere else in the world. I think the human game was up a long time ago when the high priests and traders took over and now we're just playing out the string and that is what precisely I find so amusing. The slow circling of the drain by a once promising species and the sappy ever more desperate belief in this country that there is actually some sort of Australian dream which has merely been misplaced. The decay and disintegration of this culture is astonishingly amusing if your emotionally detached from it. I have always viewed it from a safe distance knowing that I don't belong. It doesn't include me never has. No matter how you care to define it I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion,political party, union, clubs, associations, neighbourhood improvement committee. I have NO interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them. I loathe and despise the groups that they identify with and belong to. My point is to merely highlight how badly we are doing not to suggest the way we might do better. Don't confuse me with those who cling to hope. I enjoy describing how things are, I have no interest in how they ought to be. I certainly have no interest in knowing how to fix them. I sincerely believe that if you think there is a solution then you're part of the problem. My motto " Forget Hope". PS In case your wondering I'm a joyful window cleaner. I am happily married, I have a close and loving family. My business is hopping along just fine and it continues to weather through the tough economic times. I'm a personal optimist but a sceptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is nothing really more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity and I root for it's destruction. Please don't confuse my point of view with cynicism. The real cynics are the ones who tell you that everything's going to be alright.