Sorry, but the pond has its priorities and the patriarchy must win every time …
A warm glow suffuses the pond, a kind of post-orgasmic torpor overwhelms it, whenever an angry old school white male of the Moorice or nattering "Ned" kind hovers into view, and attention must be paid …
This involves sacrifices … the pond had to pass up the Dame Slap for the day, piquantly counterpointed with a news story …
But there are times when Moorice dons ordinary clothes and forgets his status as the world's greatest living climate scientist and coal lover, and walks amongst mere mortal folk, steps up to the bar for a glass of milk, and dispenses his infinite wisdom …
This is one such time … and while only the most perverse reader would mistake talk of "national pride" for white nationalist supremacist pride, the pond is pleased to present Moorice in full jingoist, nationalist, militarist mode, up there with a member of the Prussian Junker class …
Ah globalists, those silly deluded folk who think they live on a single planet …and might even share some interests and concerns with other folk living in various parts of the world.
How insidious, how disturbing, how awful for a jingoistic armchair warrior blathering into his dry sherry while ensconced in a favourite leather chair in the club …
But that talk of the frontier conflict does raise an interesting question in relation to the AWM … and the official line …
"They found no substantial evidence"??!!
They must not have looked very hard. Why the pond did a simple Greg Hunt, and being careful to avoid the Antarctic walri, came up with this …
And again ...
...In September Arthur appointed another 26 field police and deployed another 55 soldiers from the 40th Regiment and New South Wales Royal Veteran Company into the Settled Districts to deal with the rising conflict. Between September 1827 and the following March, at least 70 Aboriginal attacks were reported throughout the Settled Districts, taking the lives of 20 colonists. By March 1828 the death toll in the Settled Districts for the 16 months since Arthur's November 1826 official notice had risen to 43 colonists and probably 350 Aboriginal people.
And so on, there's much more at the globalist wiki which dared to head itself Black War …
Now the AWM's other excuse is that they can't …
Pathetic really, but the pond understands that way back in 2013 Marylou Pooley here was just tugging the forelock, bending the knee and indulging the cult of Brendan … a cult involving the secular worship of war, which grows weirder and more lavishly funded by the year, a religion designed to replace the old Xian one, perhaps with talk of blut and boden, almost to the point that it's weirder than Moorice, and that's mighty bloody weird ...
Want someone who can erase the deep streak of racism in Australian history, from gold field riots to the White Australia policy? Moorice is your man …
Here, have an American poster for a bonus …
Phew, thank the long absent lord the allies weren't given to racism, stereotypes and such like … and also thank the long absent lord that it stopped the pond from trotting out all its White Australia cartoons yet again ...
And so it turns out that Moorice knows as much about Australian history as he does climate science.
One soldier, Victor Ault, wrote about how “we thrash the black fellows with whips … Every nigger who is impudent to a soldier gets a hiding … I can’t say how many I’ve belted and knocked out.”
On Good Friday 1915, things got out of hand. Around 2,500 Anzacs rioted in the Wazza district of Cairo, sacking and setting fire to brothels, terrifying the locals, and clashing with military police who tried to intervene. These were no angels. Between 12% and 15% of the AIF had contracted venereal disease.
The battle of the Wazza, as it was dubbed, was not the only riot that took place. Others followed. Drinking and whoring, leaving bills unpaid, threatening, bullying and beating locals because they were “niggers”, and generally behaving in ways that we now condemn our sportsmen for behaving was standard fair for these boys who had money, were far away from home, and had no one to control them.
All this is well known to historians, but clearly less well known to the public. There is an obvious disconnect between what historians know and what the popular perception of our past is...
Well yes …but sssh, please don't mention Moorice …
There's more here at The Conversation and elsewhere for those who care to look … but never mind, waiter, is there a postage stamp in the house? Moorice is offering to fill it to the full with his deep historical awareness…and don't worry, he'll save his national pride blather for the spacious pages of the lizard Oz, the home of nationalists and supremacists of all kinds …
And so to nattering "Ned", who is also in fine form, though he uses a book review as an excuse …
Dear sweet long absent lord, David Kemp turned to history in retirement? Couldn't he have taken up stamp collecting?
And that, as transcribed by nattering "Ned", is what he's got to offer? That's it?
Idle, empty, meaningless blather about liberalism, including a project to turn a prison dump into a dream, and Arthur Phillip into a visionary liberal, thereby projecting modern notions back into a different time and a very different world?
Well they say each generation of fools rewrites history in their own image, and this looks like a more than passing fair foolish project … and no doubt there will be future fools ready to rewrite history and turn ScoMo from a clown into a liberal dream …
Oh okay, the pond just wanted to fling in a Wilcox - more here - because reading "Ned" can be a struggle, and there didn't seem to be any point regurgitating everything that's already been set down in The Fatal Shore …just read it again if a purgative is required ...
A contested thesis?
Well if it's a remarkably silly thesis of course it's going to be contested…. especially if it's a thesis that attempts to drag the likes of William Charles Wentworth, spats-wearing Lord Bruce and Robert Menzies into some bizarre "liberal" tent. Who else might get in there? The onion muncher and that plod from the deep North, the mutton Dutton?
Hang on, Ming the Merciless a liberal? So an attempt to ban a political party exemplifies the liberal desire to limit state power?
Waiter, shouldn't you have given Kempie a postage stamp rather than a book?
The pond admits it's almost a waste of a sublime Pope to use him as a shameless distraction, but here we go, with more papal distractions here …
Now "Ned" is scribbling for a reactionary ratbag rightwing paper offering a home to the likes of Moorice, so almost every line celebrating this unique, possibly to be patented form of 'liberalism' offers a laugh ...
Hmm, passing strange, because the pond grew up in a time when young men, many from the bush, were conscripted and sent off to die in Vietnam, and then those that returned home, copped unfair abuse for following what a 'liberal' government deemed was a matter of national interest … worthy of forcing men to march off to die …
If that's liberalism at work, perhaps the pond should sign up to the current jihadist reptile agenda …
Yes, the jihadists at the lizard Oz are still under arms, and for a distraction, the pond turned to another Wilcox …
Now call the pond short-sighted, but it probably won't be lining up to read Kempie anytime soon, even if there's someone crazy enough to drop a bucketload of moola on it, and then toss it in the local street library ...
That last paragraph settled it. About the only thing that nattering "Ned" forgot to toss into the mix was a mention of climate science denialism and dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, as the proper basis for a liberal democracy …
Such a complacent, fatuous man, living in a bubble, a vacuum known as the lizard Oz, a newspaper that time forgot, most in the land ignore … a space where nattering "Ned" might blather on about forgetting history, while simultaneously publishing Moorice, performing an heroic attempt to forget history he doesn't like in pursuit of a military cult he loves … (Did he serve? Of course not, he was busy making money).
Would it be possible to discover a more wretched example of nonsensical contradictions abroad in this illiberal mutton Dutton plod from the deep north monitored land?
Well Rowe makes a fair attempt, by reminding ScoMo of the price of making policy on the run to secure a by-election and then dealing with the consequences down the track … (with more Rowe here).
You are making life just way too easy for us, DP. After you have made your perspicacious commentary there's just nothing of substance left for us to say.
ReplyDeleteAnd especially about the behaviour of various groups of Aussie troops in assorted wars. It seems to be very hard for some - especially 'virtue signalling tribalist reptiles' to comprehend that Australians are just basic human beings: some good, some bad, and most in between and capable of both.
But I have to confess to being 'bigly' amused by Kemp and his naive, juvenile interpretation of Australia and its history. I wonder just who he suborned in order to get five volumes of tripe published. The same grifters that John Howard got to publish his nonsense, perhaps ?
Here I was thinking modern Australia was created in large part by rebellious Irish (and others) and troublesome unionists. But no, it emerged from a sort of fog of liberalism, "neither revolutionary or reactionary".
ReplyDeleteShearers and wharfies strikes? Harvester judgement? Conscription referendums? I guess Australians were all just cruising along seeking consensus, not fighting all the way against a reactionary establishment.
Hmm, passing strange, because the pond grew up in a time when young men, many from the bush, were conscripted and sent off to die in Vietnam, and then those that returned home, copped unfair abuse for following what a 'liberal' government deemed was a matter of national interest … worthy of forcing men to march off to die …
ReplyDeleteAnd that Dot is precisely why we should stand for vets when they board the flight.
An American show called In the Mood - 40s song & dance - came to Lismore Town Hall this year.It was very good and the audience of about 300 mostly over 70s loved it.
ReplyDeleteThere was a segment devoted to wartime songs, and the compere told us that in the middle of the songs he would call out for ex-service people to stand up & be recognized.
I had an idea what would happen & wasn't looking forward to it. A big drum roll & the compere called out "The Navy!" one bloke stood and down in less than a second, looking very sheepish. The crowd was silent. I have to give the American compere credit for keeping his big white smile on. Same with the army and airforce, except nobody stood up, and nobody clapped.Everyone studied their shoes.
I started thinking Australians & Americans must have different attitudes to patriotism.
Public displays of piety or patriotism - if you had to put a name to it you would probably say "virtue signalling".
DeletePersonally, I would take it all a bit more seriously if the government properly funded vet services and was less willing to put Australians at risk for some small political gain in the first place.
Hmmm: "small political gain". What would you say was the amount of "political gain" that Australia got from, say, the invasion of Iraq ? Or the war in Vietnam ?
DeleteMy thought would be that Australia's "gain" in both cases was way less than zero.
Well that's clearly true but they always seem to think there will be some advantage. It just shows the general cluelessness of the conservative. Every issue, however complex or nuanced is broken down into a simplistic notion and an even more simplistic action.
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