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From: Gil May <gilmay97 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:10:23 +1000
Subject: Words ahead of his time very applicable in today's world of political correctness and generalized stupidity

*A TRIBUTE TO THE WISDOM OF MY LATE FATHER*

An edited extract from his final speech to the Victorian Legislative Council



A TRIBUTE TO THE WISDOM OF MY LATE FATHER

An edited extract from his final speech to the Victorian Legislative
Council

By the Hon Robert (Bert) William May, Member for Gippsland.
14 July 1973

The great challenge of our time is the challenge to believe in the
future without bias or prejudices.

If a citizen demands wise government, then they must recognize that
they have a responsibility, because wise government only comes from
those people who take an intelligent interest in the performance of
governments at all levels. Unfortunately, and I say this with sincere
regret, many people must wait for events to overtake them.

They lack the sensitive imagination and powers of analysis to enable
them to anticipate and discount events. To put it another way, they
never know that a policy is bad until it has worked havoc in their
life and the lives of their time.
Conversely they never know that a policy is good until it has dropped
the ripe fruits of its goodness at their feet.

Many people go through life victimized by the tragic results of bad
policies that wiser people would have foreseen and endeavoured to
forestall, or robbed of the benefits of good policies which could
have been brought into being had they only possessed the power of
discernment.

Many people look only at the short-term benefit rather than the long
term effect which so often defeats its original intention.

Today one is appalled with the lack of tolerance and lack of desire,
the lack of ability to put personal opinions and animosities to one
side for the betterment of the community and the people as a whole.
Many civilisations in the past have fallen through lack of foresight
and tolerance, which began with the condemnation of other points of
view—is this the path we are now taking?

The great challenge of our time is the challenge to believe in the
future.

Today one is appalled with the lack of tolerance and lack of desire,
to be guided by the mistakes of history.


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