Australia

Founding premise for this article: No one is responsible for another’s thoughts, actions or feelings unless coercion and duress are applied.

Is that ok? I know this is a vital step in analysis of social commentary because I apply secular values: rational thinking, evidence, and objectivity.

I have been following an Indigenous feed on Instagram since I signed up to that platform. Being connected with different elements of Australian society is important to me, and it is vital that Indigenous voices are heard.

The Voice was a debacle: no references to the notable improvements for indigenous peoples in other countries who gained a voice in national governance, and absolutely no reference to our closest neighbour New Zealand. There was a very specific agenda with The Voice and it stank to high heavens.

On the 26th, the Indigenous feed was full of hatred and resentment with implied responsibility on current citizens to right wrongs of the past.

How can we do that?

I am not respected in this country in any particular way. Men of my ilk won the right to marry a few years ago whereas you mob had that right longer than me. With woke women bullying with unabashed bigotry, I certainly have no recourse to exert my agentic power.

I certainly do not have any ability to go back in time and change history. Is it even my responsibility to do that? Nope.

My responsibility is to make a difference in the present, to study history so as not to repeat it, and to create a better future.

What is your responsibility, hmm? Widening the divide? Failing to teach history? Refusing to open your worldview so others can access it and learn to cherish as I have done?

And now we have an allegedly ‘peaceful’ extremist religion attempting to take power to implement non-secular law in our country. Perhaps you have not noticed what their clerics clearly state or noticed the growing violence and fear?

Choosing to battle with history and make it someone else’s problem, even though you weren’t actually there, is playing victim to gain socio-political power. Not buying it. Go away. Come back when you have a constructive strategy in place, please.

As awful as it may seem from your perspective, secularism is now your greatest and best chance for not just surviving but flourishing, once again. Do not listen to entitled and self-empowered women as they are not founded on evidence but immersed within hatred and spite.

The British did many horrific things, mainly as a result of religious values, over the centuries. But out of Britain evolved a set of values which are directly opposed to faith, feelings, and bigotry: secularism. The British have done many brilliant and amazing things.

Interesting when we drop the reactiveness and start researching, under the surface, we find that reality isn’t black and white?

Very punny.

It may behoove you to remove those chips from your shoulders and pay as much attention to the evolution of the West as you wish others to pay attention to you.

And this is to every leader of Australia, present and future: if there are riots in the streets due to your policy, perhaps you have lost touch with the people you allegedly serve, and it may be time for you to step down or, otherwise, decide to actually serve the people who voted for you.

There need be only one fundamental policy in Australia: actively and positively reinforce secularism.