Posted by sigismund on September 25, 2018, at 14:34:31
In reply to Re: Scott Morrison, posted by sigismund on September 25, 2018, at 13:48:01
>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 allCrackers 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.
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