spicyayam
Copying and pasting this from FB (with permission from the author) I often get asked by people why I live in Indonesia instead of my home country. It's never easy to answer. Like anywhere, there are good and bad points. What does everyone else think?
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Do I still call Australia home?
The richest humans on the planet, that’s Australians, while at the same time, Australians are the biggest debt slaves on earth.
No population carries more personal debt? Just Swiss.
All this money means no household can live off one income since 1985.
Kids a few months old, are farmed off to batch process child care, and the same applies to aged care, where no one is willing to look after grandad, because everyone is too busy, so grandad gets abused rather than comforted, then dies. 40% or aged care residents never get a visitor.
Great society.
So seemingly all this money came from doing fuck nothing, aside of borrowing a shitload of money for property.
Now a drab suburban house costs an absurd amount to either buy or rent, making the banks so rich it’s pure theft, and everyone lives in fear of an interest rate rise.
As soon as America once again wants to bomb someone, Australian obliges as a murderous sheriff, every time.
Nanny state nonsense means a parking fine, or a ridiculously over the top speeding fine, or an application to the usurous government, costs amounts that are sheer theft.
The prime minister, some born again, self righteous, god botherer who speaks in tongues, wants to glorify coal while, jailing eco protesters. He and his stick-in-the-mud, religious conservative mates want to take the Australian economy over a cliff, by gutlessly failing to reign in asset bubble insanity, as the Reserve Bank forms a conga line of suck holes, doing as the Rothschild controlled Fed demands.
Half the population suffers mental illness during their money gathering lives. The other half is obese.
No government builds public transport because it’s easier to win votes in those outer suburbs by building highways that the govt does not pay for, selling the income to thieves like Macquarie bank, who blesses everyone as soon as they even park for 15 minutes, at their airports.
The ALP is shattered mess of wanbabee modern social democrats, but which, in reality, is a bin liner full of union sycophants.
The Liberal Party and their National mates are as socially progressive as a Queensland copper, as green as a dead cattle carcass, as smart as a Commodore computer, and as charismatic as a door mat.
There is barely a decent journalist left in employ, as Fucktard Book and Google ripped 60% of the former ad spend, back handing it offshore, paying no tax, employing not one journo, let alone paying actors and camera crews to make entertainment.
The result?
The press itself has become a bin liner of oozing Murdoch hacks, and even that tragic bunch of fuckwits running Channel Nine now own what’s left of the Sydney Morning Herald. Never before has there been so much ignorance in the community in the face of overwhelming amounts of information.
On the outside, everything Australian looks buffed and sexy. Everyone has a newish car, everyone has done up the house endlessly, and the Govt spends on keeping it all looking great, but it’s all based on debt based, asset growth.
It’s not the fucking Chinese jacking the house prices, it’s the banks being drug dealers to speculating investors.
And on the subject of drugs, the baby boomers, once the flag bearers for reform, sex, fun and protest, are now a bunch of greedy, rich, lazy drunks, sculling more booze than any other 60 year old group on earth, to ease their pain. These are the same dope smokers who shun pill testing and reprimand their kids for drug use, whilst covering up the truth of their own, party drug filled youth.
Fucking grand hypocrites, addicted to that 2 or 3 glass habit, which in reality is often 5 full wine glasses per night...a sort of mass, alcoholism.
Meanwhile the X Gen and Millennials sleep walk in a haze of student debt, addiction to screens, and are harangued into a life of conformism having being raised not by Nan, but by a Nanny State.
Cancer moves closer capturing 2 in 3 men, despite Australia’s clean green food illusion, where the reality of industrialised farming and processing, means the poisoning of every food on the shelf.This is consigning a society where cancer was only one in 30 or 40, in the 30’s and, 40’s, to every second person.
And that’s not a plague?
Wakey wakey Australia, you are rich, fatter, and poisoning yourselves with fake food, alcohol, and financial stress.
Have you ever been to a social gathering in Australia that does not depend on booze to make it work?
Unlike the rich cultures of Asia and Europe, where all sorts of deep seams of family, art, good design and tradition lace the society with inner wealth, Australians have just got materialism and sport to pursue. Just own more, shit. And watch footy.
Well done Australians, you now own more shit than anyone on earth.
But are you heathy?
Are you happy?
Are you engaged with your community, or stuck on a screen?
Do you feel a part of a group you can depend on, or are ya, on ya own mate?
The raw truth, is in Australia, its all about the money. The moola. It’s not about the family, or the culture, it’s about what can I spend next.
So.
Given this shitful mess, it’s, time a big change swept over Australia, starting with the one core problem, and demolishing it.
There is way too much fake wealth in Australia, and once it’s reduced, and pain suffered, things reassessed, and changes made, then things will regrow just as they did in 1992.
The recession we had to have, is, way overdue.
Yes, it will cause endless financial strife, but in the end, it will be a good thing.
Maybe when the greed expectations cease, then someone might get the 6 month baby out of the child minding factory. Maybe someone might go get suffering grandma out of a home, and put her in an actual real home.
Maybe a shit box suburban house will not cost 1.8million dollars or cost $1200 a week to rent.
Maybe the Govt will not be able to blow billions on stupid submarines to satisfy the US war machine monster. Being deputy sheriff is expensive.
Besides, a few drone subs will take out every manned sub in existence, in 5 years.
Maybe Australia will address its national alcholoism and legalise harmless recreational relaxants instead.
Maybe farmers will wake up to the fact that they are not in a 7 year drought, when in reality, their farming practices have created massive desertification.
Maybe banks can be sent almost to the wall, and this time round, made to pay for their excesses. Stop using tax payers money to underwrite these thriving megaliths. This time if they flounder, they must fall.
Stop the endless investment in stagnant assets like property and shares, and start putting money into activities that produce shit.
Abandon sycophantic relationships with the US miltary industrial complex.
Stop doing as the Federal Reserve commands.
Stop cowtailing to big pharma, and allow progressive new immunotheroputic methods into the system, rather than just chemo, radio and endless chemical drug company poison.
Just tell the perverts in the Churches and institutions to pay, and in so doing make all the religous groups pay tax, and put an end to this mindless warping of spiritual teaching to benefit just the church itself.
For fuck’s sake, Australia, find out what’s really happening on the spiritual agenda, as it ain’t heaven, hell and tithing.
Wakey wakey Australia, you have become comfortably num, jacked into every vein with endless money, born of debt.
Try life where pursuit of wealth is not the only aim.
So elect a government who has a vision beyond just jobs and growth.
Stop bombing poor people living in deserts, that have nothing to do with us.
The last Federal Election was not a reflection on Scomo’s skill or luck, it was an appalling reflection on a sick society, hanging onto a lifestyle propped up on trillions in debt. Lazy. Scared. Materialistic. Fat and depressed.
Australians you were once a much more fun, capable and noble lot.
That was back before we got so rich. You think being the richest community on earth is a happy thing, well try a good look at yourselves, your reality situation, and compare it to when you were young, for example.
Did you have more fun when you had less money and more time?
Did you feel content in groups where babies, toddlers and grandparents were all part of the one living unit?
Did you enjoy life more when you wanted less, and had way more time. Like when just dad could make the money, between 9 to 5, and where dad was not home after 7, in a life wasted in commuting cues and endless work demands.
Was it more fun when a phone was just for speaking to someone?
All the ways once lived by Aussies are now being lived by new societies around the world, finding their feet.
I live in Asia and once lived in the richest of all Asian countries, called Singapore. It’s stands out as the most depressing, nasty, stressed society in Asia, with the winning suicide rate unmatched by its pooer neighbours. Is the there a lesson here? If there is one, it applies equally to Australians.
I love sunburnt county, one of expanding deserts, dry river beds, flooded only by anti depressants and booze.
It’s not whatcha country looks like, it’s what goes on in its heart, and Australians have got a bad case of societal heart disease.
You were a much finer race people before the 28 years of recession-free gluttony, took it’s toll on your heart. You are another Singapore.
A giant recession over about 2- 3 hard years is what is needed, and it’s needed fast and mean.
No one seems to remember that some of the finest foundations for the Australian mob were forged in the height of the late 80’s and early 90’s recession. That recession, as Keating pinned it, was the one we had to have. He was right.
A dose of poverty, and you may need to rethink farming off the kids or the grand parents. A dose of poverty, and you may find, with way less shit, you have way less worry, and a lot more time to play.
It’s not impossible to conceive, just look back 35 years. It was the 80’s that saw the demise of the need for only one bred winner per family.
Time spent mucking around with everyone is, a far greater wealth than an asset value.
Your assets will soon lose a huge chunk of value, it’s inevitable, as at near 0% interest, there is no more adjustment left in the safety rope. Asset bubbles last as long as any other type of bubble.
Blessed be the big pop.
As when it comes, so too will values change, and with them politics, economics, ... they all change, and eventually improve.
But most importantly, humans reassess their aims and values, and when that happens, Aussies will shine once again.
