One if my secret fears is honestly being alive to see my children or grand-children living in a truly messed up world. Every time I look at the way the Australian political system and parties are heading I am truly convinced that we're not far removed from a V for Vendetta/1984 situation sometime this century. Adding to that, I know a lot of the time the most ridiculous notions are the ones that are shouted the loudest, so I'm not entirely worried when I see two dozen of the people on my Facebook feed screaming about how they won't eat Vegemite anymore because it is Halal certified, or complaining about Asian migrants who are stealing all of our jobs. I know from just looking around that this small group of people is, for now, just that, a small group. But they're certainly larger than they were last year, and the year before that.

Couple all of that with this article and it all starts to look very bleak. The article talks about how the younger Australian generation is really going to struggle with having less available jobs, less government spending to help create those jobs and a number of other factors.

All that said, anyone who actually knows me will know I am not one to worry about basically any of that stuff. If I can stick my head out of a window and not hear gunshots it means that I'm a lot better off than many people out there. But I do know myself, and when I eventually have kids their problems will become my problems and I can't even imagine having to explain to them how the world is a steaming pile of crap because of something they never had a hand in. So here's hoping that everything goes balls up around 2090, I should be dead or senile by then.