Posted by beckett2 on September 26, 2018, at 1:50:37
In reply to Re: Scott Morrison, posted by sigismund on September 25, 2018, at 14:34:31
> >There was a 9 year old girl who refused to stand for Advance Australia Fair. It's a pretty dreadful settler thingo. "Australians all let us rejoice for we are young and free'. And she decided this was not true. She was attacked for being divisive, which she was, insisting on the truth when so many prefer lies. She wrote an oped in the Saturday Paper. Feels like The Emperors New Clothes.
>
> 60 years ago it didn't feel like lies. 40 yeas ago it was Gough Whitlam, one of our best, who gave us Advance Australia Fiar. I preferred God Save the Queen. Especially.....
> O Lord our God arise
> Scatter her enemies
> And make them fall
> Confound their politics
> Frustrate their knavish tricks
> On Thee our hopes we fix
> God save us all
>
> Crackers and paranoid. I love it.
>
> The sound of the races over a wireless on a Saturday afternoon in a deserted country town with 3 pubs and some drunks. That should be our national anthem.
>
> It never occurred to anyone that they might have had a superior culture. And the land was empty. They had gone. But where?
>
> In Cusco a wonderful. sceptical and cynical Spanish teacher said to me when we talked of this....'Well, you killed them all, didn't you?' I mentioned diseases, being careful to make no excuses. He also said
> 'I want to make a dignified exit from the planet'.
> 'What do you mean?'
> 'I don't want to end up begging on the streets'.
>
> I loved him saying that....Quiero salir de esta planeta con dignidad.
>I would prefer God Save the Queen as well since there is a deep almost mystical reverence for royalty that was naked and honest, despite treachery and colonialism of all sorts, maybe containing a condescending benevolence, but al least some regard. Capitalism as it is just scrapes away at people until they are afraid they'll sleep under bridges. You should see the homeless indigents here, camped in bushes alongside the road, although when one is driving and minding the road, these encampments go unseen.
Does the Michael Moore clip include his thoughts on Flint, Michigan, where people discuss selling plasma to get by?
Like Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the water of Flint became importable, and both events shake my expectation of government benevolence, both events ignored by my government, Flint by Obama, and Puerto Rico by tRump. I'm positive he didn't know Puerto Ricans are American citizens.
The insurgency of the right is global it seems. Or at least western. China's surveillance net is harrowing.
Do you think climate change is already driving refugees? Then there is a western global panic over borders. The situation is out of control, the fear and panic. There is a German word that is untranslatable that expresses this sort of fear-- I'll see if I can find it.
This will be part of US legacy: https://tinyurl.com/ybwlm72k
Do you have a link to the girl's essay (in the papers)
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