No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.