Rupert (like his father before him) embraced culture wars to sell the news, it seems (in) the 21st century Lachlan intends to embrace the media to sell the culture wars. (In a quid pro quo arrangement with only some of us)
It’s about reimagining today’s Australian community out of a narrow colonial nationalism that sees Australia’s rise as “a new Brittania in another world”,…. it’s a narrative that legitimizes the modern economy of extractive export industries by glorifying pioneering farmers and diggers. But it’s a weak imagining, held up by the emptiest of symbols — so weak it cannot co-exist with the colonizer’s shame of ( Killing for Country and) the dispossession of First Nations peoples.
As the reign of the narrative’s greatest booster, John Howard, was petering out in 2007, Paul Keating identified its weakness: the “we” that Howard often spoke of “was ( never) meant to be all of us, but only some of us. As it was when the ( Colonial Settlers the Squatters who) Howard believes are (and were) the keepers of the Holy Grail; the sentries at the gates of the true Australia.”
Those same sentries ( today) have long found a comfortable barracks in the commentary sections at News Corp. Since the Voice vote, they’ve pivoted their war against cosmopolitan urban elites ( in the same way the squatters did the city elite in the 19th century when the urban woke too looked on Australian natives as worthy of British protection rather than total dispossession and would have) voted Yes for an enlarged imagining of Australia.”
It would seem Sweet FA has changed
Source: “This past… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook
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