I still maintain that half
solutions were better than no solutions, but only marginally better so far. To
prove my assumption, I will relate this funny incident:
My membership of ASPA(Vic)
lapsed because of my failure to pay the annual subscription fee for more than
12 months. The rules of membership assumed that I had resigned. Therefore, I
had to submit a new application for membership.
It took the committee of
ASPA(Vic) several months to inform me that my application was rejected. In the
past, when that committee decided to take a silly decision, I used to be gleefully
told that the decision had been unanimous. That was not the case in 2020, the reason being that some members of the reformed committee are not just position
fillers, albeit that several naive new members were victims of the continuing campaign
of disinformation, obfuscation and character assassination persistently practised
by two members of the old committee.
The silly decision of
ASPA(Vic) to reject my application for membership would make the late Harry
Malcolm roll over in his grave. He might also annoy his graveyard neighbours
with loud laughter, if told that a couple of days ago my online application for membership of
ASPA(NSW) took only a few hours to get approved by an efficient and sensible
committee, not swayed by malicious hearsay nonsense.
So, my earlier assumptions about the stillborn Victorian committee were wrong. Several new members turned out to be uninformed raw nuts.
So, my earlier assumptions about the stillborn Victorian committee were wrong. Several new members turned out to be uninformed raw nuts.
