Quote: Justan opinion based on a loose and specific-interested interpretation of facts.
We had a news article on TV the other night - a 'traditional ceremony' that brought tears to the eyes of local Aboriginals who hadn't seen it for decades...
What was it you say? The burning off of a small patch of bush to burn off noxious weeds and encourage native regrowth.... well ... that happens every damned day here and is such a common event it is never even mentioned.
So now - like the 'trade paths' that our highways and railways follow and that we now are being told were Aboriginal trade routes (trade for what?) ... the simple fact of burning a bit of bush back is somehow a 'sacred ceremony'....
Jesus Christ!! Son - we are being snowed daily with this kind of bullshit.... and it ain't working....
The abbo 2nd Australians (Murderers of the First Australians) are being falsely promoted as far more advanced than they were.
This political correctness in being perpetrated in a vain attempt to make them feel more than just a primitive race that has been conquered and is now totally obsolete.
Setting fire to things is the abbo way, they do it to virtually any housing they are given, is this a "Traditional Ceremony" as well?
And as for trade paths, what trade paths?
They never traded anything, they had nothing to trade, they were wandering nomads that had nothing to trade.
Clothing was virtually non existent, and they carried little.
Except for the embers of fire so they could start a fire at their next encampment.
Because they could not start a fire from scratch, it was beyond them.
Sticks, sharpened by burning and scraping on rocks, because they did not have the intelligence to lash a stick to a rock or even sharpen a rock.
Even their art, primitive as can be seen exactly the same as pre-stone age are from around the globe.
Yet people try to make out its something special, with special meaning.
Its just dabs of colour on bark.
Imagine the problems they would have had if there had not been paperbark trees?
Im sick of all this genuflecting to the great abbo myth.
They are PRE-STONE AGE HUNTER GATHERER PRIMITIVES.
In 200 years they have evolved little, preferring to be sitting on their arses rather than working or bettering themselves.I have said it before and Ill say it again.
A culture will either advance or become extinct.
there are less and less abbos who could even survive a day in the bush.
Fewer still who speak the language.
and fewer still who are real abbos.
They are dying out, being replaced by a shadow of themselves in 1/254th cast whites who have inhereted the one strong gene all abbos have
LAZYNESS.
They had a stable, sustainable and as far as 'farming' techniques - more sophisticated than 'whities' at the time, because they worked 'with' the land - not 'ruin' it for short term gain. All their 'tribal boundaries' were a 'shared' experience of contribution, where both tribes participated.
Are you upset they didn't chuck in their Lifestyle to suddenly rush off to War and fight for the British and Yanks?
Their Culture may not have changed much over such a time. But it is the 'time' itself that had made their culture strong, like a samurai sword folded again and again in a forge. They are obviously more a part of this land, than the American Indian was of his. They were more 'nomadic' than the Aboriginals.