let me share with you guys the following story which i received
in my email:
There was once an Australian federal government - I forget which or
even when, it was so long ago - whose cabinet was so secretive
about in its conduct of the nations affairs, and so overconfident
of getting away with whatever it liked in this situation, that it
took to contemptuously calling its own backbenchers - and by
extension the opposition, the press and the populace - The
Mushroom Club.
This was a reference to the fact that everyone in the nation but
themselves were, like mushroom-growers commercial crops, kept in
the dark and fed shit.
Happily, however, this nasty little inside joke and the overweening
arrogance and lack of accountability it signified didnt go
unpunished for long. A sharp-eared journalist heard about it, broke
the story in the media, and the resultant storm of parliamentary
and popular outrage eventually helped sweep the offending
administration from office.
