Ed Husic's blunt outburst says more about Labor's political paralysis than party discipline, through the unexpected lens of William Blake's philosophy, writes Carl Gopalkrishnan. What Labor MP Ed Husic actually said was: “They can put me in the freezer. This is why Husic's shit matters. But as Ed Husic found out, imposing consensus from the top isn't democracy – it's erasure. Nothing changes and, perhaps, that's what Ed Husic was trying to tell us.