Episode IV
All Australian
- Jun 16, 2022
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- Fremantle
They do, but society also relies heavily upon its own past, it's history. While it's true that some of the history is viewed through rose-tinted lenses, the reality of outcomes cannot be denied. One of the issues with multiculturalism is that there is no shared history, which is exacerbated further when the disparity of cultures becomes more pronounced.I assume all societies create stories about themselves, to help with social cohesion. I think you make an interesting point that the more these stories have to be enforced by governments and courts and police to make people speak and act and eventually think a certain way that is against their instincts, the more mythical and disconnected from reality the stories actually are.
We're over-governed and over-regulated, so part of our story is mythical, but we're still not even close to the worst end of the thought crime spectrum. Not yet, anyway.
There is now a significant portion of Australia which has no interest in the past, or how we got here, other than in the negative aspects which provide a pathway to more legislation designed ostensibly to correct that past without much consideration for the present. The black armband thing.
Politically speaking, I would tend to think that the left-leaning governments will hold greater sway on the years to come as the population becomes more and more non-European and the emotive votes become more important. When issues such as immigration come to the fore in public discourse, the left-leaning parties have half of their job done for them before campaigning even begins.