Perhaps it serves a basic human need to try to make the world a better place, but it is difficult to find an unequivocal example of success. Kant’s categorical imperative as a guide to action is more sanction than injunction, but we invite the charge of apathy if we are not actively campaigning for some good cause.

It is the Moon’s job to illuminate despair and ground anxiety, but while oppression has continued unrelieved in West Papua, and no solution to the transport problems of the western suburbs of Melbourne is forthcoming, secret trade negotiations are just one more reminder of the powerlessness of the citizen of a democracy.

On top of that, it seems likely that it will rain at the Full Moon.

Antagonism, control, sanctimony, carelessness and pessimism sum it up neatly.