On Saturday night, I was sitting in an auditorium with about 13,000 other fellow ‘cookers’*. We were in attendance listening to the clinical psychologist Dr Jordan Peterson. He was discussing whether gratitude was a naive position to take in a world where God (if you believe in one or not) allows great suffering.
Mid-elucidation through The Brothers Karamazov (obviously Hitler’s favourite book, according to his loud and nasty detractors) it was apparent, through barely visible smartphone screen, that the Labor party was on track for a historic third term in government.
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