Look man , the day wasn’t offical until the 80s. I personally don’t give a shit . There’s multiple other days in the 365 that can be less divisive and more galvanising to ultimately do the thing that Aus day is supposed to . Be a flag waving F U to the world about how awesome our country is ! I could not give a shit , about feeling guilty as a white man or not , or virtue signalling from both the professional protestors out of Newtown , as well as the extreme right wing .
But you’re right . People can’t help to peacock and turn everything into some kind of virtue signalling scoreboard . That’s not what my post is. I neither feel any guilt for other people’s actions in the past , nor do I feel that I’m gonna jump on , “what about the white man “ bullshit going around lately.
All I wanna do is say I love Australia . And I have shed blood sweat and tears in honour of the flag . Like many others in many fields . It’s litterally gods country .
A lot of people talk about this type of rhetoric , but have never put thier actual skin in the game , whether it waving the flag in international research for cancer all the way to representing your country in the beer skilling world champs at Oktoberfest .
I say all that , because I honestly feel that the squeaky wheel gets grease . And theres a lot of squeaky wheels getting around at the moment . Who neither deserve grease , or wd40 , nor being put on the bike in the first place .
I personally feel there’s a huge “what about me” thing getting around where every person feels like they’re not getting thier flowers . When in reality , if you’re an Aus citizen in whatever way you’ve literally won the lottery .
Thinking about all the people to have every lived , to live in a penal colony at the end of the earth / a forgotten about slice of paradise prior to that , we should all be kissing the ground when we wake up.
That’s how I feel . As bad as you might think your situation is because you can help looking over the neighbours fence and staring at thier green grass . Have. a look a few block so over(the rest of the world) . Theres no green grass at all. And sorry , jumping on a plane to live in Dubai , where if you piss off the wrong dude , wearing a white a robe , can land your whole family in detention , is not a better place , as I’ve been seeing on my social media feed lately .
