So here we have a country without leadership. For decades as successive liberal politicians have neither led nor been passive, Australia has gradually become ‘the most successful multicultural nation on Earth’.
What does this mean, exactly?
100 years ago, Australia was a Christian country. Gays were an easy target for assault and murder and Queensland created the apartheid system which South Africa applied with zeal. Women gradually got the vote. 50 years ago we wrestled the Jesus out of our humanity and finally acknowledged that Indigenous Australians are, indeed, human beings but, 30 years ago, we could not quite bring ourselves to acknowledge their right to inheritance. 3 years ago we denied their right to political voice.
The doubling of population in some of our biggest cities is the result of open immigration policies. Brisbane is the best example of non-assimilation enclaves where shop signs are not in English, a big win for multiculturalism. This huge influx of people has certainly helped consumption and keep inflation down despite Australia losing more and more local production to China.
I’ve been watching videos and doing research about Islam, Hamas, Jihad, and also been trying to understand Australian culture.
Many people are horrified and furious that those two men murdered and some are calling for heads to roll. Others are making references to Christianity in some way or other. Newsertainment is pouring pro-Semitism into the discussion. One guy pointed out that this attack involved Jews, yes, but this was an attack on Australian culture.
What is Australian culture, again? Ask a few people what that is. The answers given me over the past 3 years include:
– we don’t have a culture
– we are all convicts
– football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars
Pretty lame, right?
We are a culture of denial: we deny Indigenous people their place in this, their own lands, we deny our roll in South East Asian horrors like Timor Leste and West Papua. We deny responsibility in participating in an active democracy, such as allowing our politicians to erase conflict of interest.
We are a culture of immaturity: we comfortably tell each what to do and how to think and rebel against people who tell us what to do and how to think. Expressing accountability is a great way to be destroyed here, and bettering oneself is a great way to be targeted for humiliation. Authenticity has to be specifically referenced: ‘Are you REALLY OK?’
Our culture leans toward totalitarianism: feminists ignore domestic violence data when creating government reports on family health, trans activists wilfully deny not just evidence by other’s identities and their right to be respected, and now we have politicians who are determined to take no action against terrorists murdering people at the beach.
Absolutely pathetic!
Our culture is devoid of leadership and moral integrity. Let’s look at how we as a people can re-orient ourselves and preserve what we have.
Morality is a curious word. Have you ever defined it? It boils down, for most people, as something to do with right and wrong, usually a religious thing. These are not accurate.
Morality has to do with protecting what is ours and terminating threats to who we are and how we thrive.
Protect what, then, exactly?
Secularism.
As a country, we have fought against the mistreatment of women. Gender pay gap? Ha! ABS statistics clearly indicate that women work less and apply for jobs which pay less.
As a country, we have introduced equality into law for gays. Mostly! I can still be told that I must ensure my behaviour does not upset the Christian clients I come into contact with or the company will lose business.
As a country, we reversed the Christian devaluing of non-white peoples but, and however, we still do not give Indigenous peoples a voice in parliament. Doing so has proven in New Zealand and Scandinavia, for example, that a Voice has been proven to improve political health for that country, and real health for Indigenous peoples.
As a country, our progress as a society is directly tied to progress in secular themes such as freedom of self-expression within the context of equality, freedom of action within the context of equality, and freedom of agency within the context of equality.
Our failures, each and every one of them, are directly related to favouring one group over another and of not holding people to account. Men deserve equal treatment under the law; women do not deserve favoured treatment under the law: see false allegations and divorces for more information.
The Liberal-National government funnelled $750,000,000 to religious organisations. I’m quite sure that money was funded by public taxation and therefore should be put into public, secular, education, not hurled at some bunch of quacks.
My point here is that religion cannot function above secular law unless we wish to have our lives dictated, once again, by religious fairy stories. Secular society depends upon evidence, reason, and impartiality.
The evidence shows that Israel is guilty of aggression toward its neighbours. The evidence shows that Muslim forces are guilty of aggression toward Israel, and Jews and Christians and secular society as a whole. The evidence shows that Australian leadership, even without Pauline Hanson’s warnings, is guilty and culpable for these terrorists’ actions. The evidence shows that Islam is a direct threat to secular society.
There is a gap between people who are ruled and the people who rule, yes, but there is also a question mark hanging over all those people who knew of this situation, yet stayed silent, and the psychopaths who acted.
There is a deep immorality demonstrated by a people who do not denounce terrorist actions: this includes our unrealistically liberal-minded leaders and the silence of Muslim peoples and groups across the world.
There is a deep immorality in Australian leadership: failing to look at the evidence and take action to protect secularism.
I guess we have finally gotten a taste of what terrorism actually means in daily life, the terror that many experience every day.
I hope Australia knuckles down. I hope we expel our idiotic leaders with their stupid ideologies. I hope we avoid leaping into the cesspool of religious identification. I hope we note that secular society is a far greater moral position than anything a god can provide. I hope we stop denying reality.
I hope we learn to protect ourselves and then use our secular morality to protect others.
I hope we prevent this from ever happening again.
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