I sorta wanted to make a big post about how Australia for me isn't, actually, cricket and Cold Chisel. Or rather, it is, but it's also... I dunno, Chinese Irish senators practicing toboganning in Parliament House, and people saying "chemo-fucking-therapy", and vibrant gorgeous Aussie indie-alternative music of all ilks, and great Chinese for dinner with baklava for dessert, and mad Croatians running a cutting edge gay bar. But I couldn't really find the words to make it work and then I felt stupid and pretentious.
Our country is a hypocrite, but it's also muddling away at it the best that it can. We haven't resorted to wars to sort it all out, we haven't had violent uprisings to hammer The Way It Will Be into the people. It isn't carved in stone. And that's part of what's great about us. It's not perfect and it's unrealistic to expect it could be, but we've got something beautiful and multifaceted and flexible and possible, and yeah, I love it too. We can be embarrassing together. *G*
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I sorta wanted to make a big post about how Australia for me isn't, actually, cricket and Cold Chisel. Or rather, it is, but it's also... I dunno, Chinese Irish senators practicing toboganning in Parliament House, and people saying "chemo-fucking-therapy", and vibrant gorgeous Aussie indie-alternative music of all ilks, and great Chinese for dinner with baklava for dessert, and mad Croatians running a cutting edge gay bar. But I couldn't really find the words to make it work and then I felt stupid and pretentious.
Our country is a hypocrite, but it's also muddling away at it the best that it can. We haven't resorted to wars to sort it all out, we haven't had violent uprisings to hammer The Way It Will Be into the people. It isn't carved in stone. And that's part of what's great about us. It's not perfect and it's unrealistic to expect it could be, but we've got something beautiful and multifaceted and flexible and possible, and yeah, I love it too. We can be embarrassing together. *G*