The (spiritually) best thing that could happen to Australia right now (and perhaps to every other first world nation) is extreme austerity. When kids won’t be able to afford mobile phones, they might begin to understand the power of objective reality.
The tide that brought you things for which you are grateful is the same tide that will take them away. Be in charge of you.
There is no use arguing against the removal of the freedom of speech or property rights on the basis of human rights, after failing to defend the right to free medical consent on the same basis. Every present or future legal battle about the limits of state authority will have to return the point where the majority implicitly gave away their human rights by acquiescing to vaccine mandates. Jumping to the next current controversy without addressing the root cause is still just acquiescence to the root cause, a contradictory and therefore already lost position. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/why-vaccine-mandates-are-unethical
If the ruling power uses unethical means to present you with a moral challenge after moral challenge, and you persistently fail them, then you are not a victim of injustice but its perpetrator. The ruling power can thus derive a utilitarian mandate to rule over you from the premise that if you were in their place you would be just as bad or worse. By the same token, the ruling power must submit to the moral authority of those who passed the moral challenge, or it would forfeit its own claim of authority.
Every revolution against oppression has ultimately failed for the same reason: the morally motivated minority has exhausted and sacrificed itself to defend the irrational, immoral majority from the consequences of their collusion, mistakenly regarding them as moral equals. The revolutionary spirit has thus preserved and carried the seed of chaos from the old system into the new system, guaranteeing its future corruption and re-emergence of new forms of tyranny. In essence, revolution is always premature, disrupting the collective evolution.
This is cultural appropriation of the Latin alphabet. In oral traditions names can be spoken, but cannot be written without self-negation. Also, a place is not the same identity as the city built in that place, therefore false identification. Conceived by hypocrites who covet the fruit but hate the tree. https://t.iss.one/gerardrennick/468
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And so it begins. The surreptitious changing of the name Brisbane.
Brisbane has nothing to do with Aboriginal culture. The city is named after Sir Thomas Brisbane, governor of the Colony of NSW at the time a convict settlement was established at Moreton…
Brisbane has nothing to do with Aboriginal culture. The city is named after Sir Thomas Brisbane, governor of the Colony of NSW at the time a convict settlement was established at Moreton…
Endurance of a culture is not a proof of value but of its repressive, totalitarian character. Cultural stasis is contrary to conscious agency, which is essentially the capacity for intentional change that transcends dependency on that which is inherited or given.
Nativist supremacism is the essence of the Blood & Soil doctrine. Say NO to Nazi ideology. https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/tony-abbott-unleashes-on-the-voice-anthony-albanese/news-story/91f0fffcfcabd5c8f2d29dce4a7be96f
Forwarded from Normal (Michael Kowalik)
I propose a new Acknowledgement of Original Owners ceremony, otherwise know as 'Welcome to Reality', that should be conducted before every public event, performance or community meeting:
We acknowledge the Original Owners of the Earth on which we are standing, the Human kind of which we are all representatives. We all share the same ancient ancestors. We are all related. Reason unites us.
We acknowledge the Original Owners of the Earth on which we are standing, the Human kind of which we are all representatives. We all share the same ancient ancestors. We are all related. Reason unites us.
Forwarded from Normal (Michael Kowalik)
Any statement implying that indigenous people have a superior social status or value compared to other citizens is an expression of nativist supremacism, a core feature of Nazi ideology. It is not possible to transcend tribal or racial resentment without acknowledging that All humans share the same ancient ancestors, that we are all related, that we are all the original owners of the Earth. Reason unites us. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-government-regarding
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Open Letter to Government regarding ‘Welcome to Country’ (the acknowledgement of Original People)
I submit that the concept of Original Ownership, or any statement implying that Aboriginal Australians as a race or ethnicity have a superior social status or value to other Australians, is an expression of nativist supremacism, a core feature of Nazi ideology.…
Those who assert that indigenous Australians have superior status than non-indigenous Australians are implicitly affirming that indigenous Germans always had superior status than non-indigenous Germans, and so on. In short, they endorse Nazi ideology by the proxy of another race and place.
The premise of Original Ownership is moot
If Original Ownership is a valid principle then any exclusive claim of ancestral ownership is predated by our common ancestors, on account of their earliest exclusive possession of the entire Earth, including the present day continent of Australia. All living humans are descendants of the same ancestors and are thus entitled to partake in the claim of original ownership. Consequently, the argument of original ownership is at best moot, trivially applicable to all of humanity and in relation to every place.
If Original Ownership is a valid principle then any exclusive claim of ancestral ownership is predated by our common ancestors, on account of their earliest exclusive possession of the entire Earth, including the present day continent of Australia. All living humans are descendants of the same ancestors and are thus entitled to partake in the claim of original ownership. Consequently, the argument of original ownership is at best moot, trivially applicable to all of humanity and in relation to every place.
Whatever moral violations were committed among people in the past are irrelevant to the moral obligations of the people living today, do not negate the equality of rights and do not justify racial supremacism or vilification.
Forwarded from Normal (Michael Kowalik)
A smart ruling class installs individuals of a minority race in the most prominent administrative positions, knowing that the majority will blame the race of the administrators instead of the ruling class for any abusive policies.
The crucial difference that is not emphasised is that those Aboriginal Australians who are politically and economically successful have relinquished the bonds of tribal tradition and embraced modern education, whereas those who adhere to tribal norms, or are lost in the nihilistic space between tradition and their rejection of modernity, are impoverished, unheard and alienated. I suggest that this alienation is a result of the indigenous culture itself, lacking the systematisation of meaning and the grounding of reason that the rest of humanity takes for granted. Tribal idiosyncrasies are incompatible with modernity and with the concept of universal humanity. It is tribalism itself that must be cured.
This is what Nativist Supremacism is essentially about; Nazi ideology. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-government-regarding
"The more skillfully the language of goodness is assumed, the greater the depravity”. https://substack.com/@janniklindquist/note/c-21332363