Secret Wars
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Just a new aboriginal industry, that of claiming exceptionalism.
There are two views of aboriginals, the romantic twaddle of the luvvies who see them as bush fairies and conservators of the land with some sort of special spiritual resonance with country and the pragmatic reality that they are a tribal people no different to any others around the world.
Tribal people have always, everywhere, looked to the skies for cues to seasons, the worlds natural ebb and flow of resources, when fish and flowers are in, when to plant and when to harvest. The skies are full of stories and creation myths, again all over the world. Only here with the idiots of the left in the cause of aboriginal exceptionalism it’s claimed as aboriginals discovered astronomy.
Same with being bush fairies and conservators, constrained by lack of resources because they did not have the means to exploit those resources, ie just sticks and rocks, it’s hard to make a negative impact on a continent, it’s not that they were proto greenies, they just had a small imprint on the land. When chopping down a tree is a major endeavour you don’t go about clear felling for log cabins, but thats just technology, given the opportunity they would prefer the log cabin to the bark hut because, being people, not exceptional, they recognise and value comfort and ease.
Aquaculture is another claim for aboriginal exceptionalism, again, used throughout the world.
Aboriginals inhabited a stable and eroded continent which means many of the earliest artifacts still survive which then brings forth claims of oldest continuous culture, though of course, Australia was at the end of mans migration out of Africa, people are older and been elsewhere longer everywhere else. Kalahari bushmen and PNG tribal would have equal and better claims to an ancient existing culture, but they don’t have boosters who can point to old rocks covered with ochre.
Aboriginal exceptionalism is a luvvie manifestation of cultural cringe on behalf of aboriginals. Instead of thinking and treating them as different to the rest of humanity they would have been less destructive to recognise them as fellow humans.
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