Peter Shaw

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  • Alone in the wired world

    Sitting on the Number 8 tram on Melbourneā€™s St. Kilda Road certainly is an interesting experience. Trams catch the mood and feel of Melbourne like no ther form of transport. They amble down the middle of the street they are amongst the traffic, yet they are not a car or a bus. They are not just a tool of commuting but of travel, so are uniquely placed for the observation of humanity in its day to day endeavours.

    Staring about as I often do I am amazed at the faces and manner of my fellow passengers. Most stare blankly, mutely, forward looking into space looking into nothing. I often wonder why? Maybe a hard day at work? But at 1.00 oā€™clock on a Friday afternoon!

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  • The thin veil of civilisation

    The thin veil of civilisation

    First published in The Canberra Times, June 2000. Twenty-five years on, the decline it describes has only accelerated, and the platforms we now live on have made it worse.

    Public Morality
    Public Morality?

    Basketball riots in Los Angeles, football riots in Belgium. The weekend seemed to be full of mob violence, destruction and thuggery. Grown men on rampages of destruction. In the modern world, it seems that for all our technical achievements, our ordered society, and our high culture, we have not come that far. Just below the surface, barbarism is always there.

    Civilisation, at least for some, is only skin deep.

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