There is a curious behaviour being displayed by many people, more often than not on the internet where these individuals can hide behind screens and false names for obvious reasons, but also outside of that, on the streets and in universities etc.. This behaviour is one of adopting a non-questioning or an absolute truth kind of attitude, where one thing is right because it is right and therefore an opposing opinion to that one thing is always wrong, and there is no balancing, no challenge, no arguments for and against but simply a straight ahead acceptance of whatever has been said and/or implied (by presence/non-presence).
Now self-confidence, confidence, pride that’s all very good but only to certain extents. Australia(1) in general is a much racialist country which naturally is due to the large numbers of immigrants and otherwise foreigners within its borders. Consider also the fact that the only actual non-immigrants in Australia are still today being much marginalised either intentionally and directly or unintentionally and indirectly. Yet for some reason the older emigrants feel that they are more entitled to the land than later emigrants, the result of which can been seen in the many examples, among one very direct example would be the eggs and worse stones that are being thrown at mainly Asians at night by passers in rusty, run-down cars and plenty of interesting words being shouted every now and then (no excuse for drunken boredom killer activity). Surely this cannot be the case for every single Australian (‘white-Australian’) citizen but there appears to be something in this fear of change/new things/multi-culture that grows a bit deeper and runs, spreads through many more people than just those few egg throwing simpletons.
The idea is about a sort of illusion of perfection or flawlessness, a sort of blinding patriotism that says “we are better than anyone else, we are proud of it and there is nothing whatever need for change in any aspect either within the society in itself, interaction, communication, general attitudes, image, people etc. or that which is directly related to it by way of marketing, industry, technology, development etc.”, basically, regardless of the level of truth in such a statement the illusion says that there is no need for any evaluation or further questioning. There is an obvious lack of perspective, no sense of real perspective, a closed in vision of constant one-upmanship. “Do not put our ways of thinking to the test, because we know best, and so by that sheer fact we don’t need your opinion”, and if their ways of thinking would be put to the test and proven inferior to an alternative a defence mechanism automatically sets in. This defence comes in the form of an arrogance where the pretence again is “we’re right, you’re wrong” and a picking out of whatever minor flaw that might be detectable but most often completely irrelevant or something derived from a misinterpretation and twisted around to be made to look in a certain way, normally the opposite of what was the intention. Ignoring the actual issue and sweeping it over with black painted irrelevant countermeasures. It’s a nationalistic narcissism where the people (selected groups of people) are offended by the mere idea of anyone questioning their values, and their vision of their own community, society and structuring.
The problem of course comes down to the same problem as with any other people with a wide spread common delusional view of the world (i.e. religious, superstitious, and otherwise mentally enclosed/sheltered persons) which is that of non-reasoning, a dangerous thing which cannot be changed by anything else than enlightenment or self-realisation on the part of the delusional individual, step by step. You cannot argue with someone who does not believe in arguementation. You cannot reason with someone who does not apply reason to their own thinking. My concern is how do we solve this standstill, this stasis, this limiting blockage in the progress of ‘evolution’ (in every sense of the word)? Is it simply an ‘afraid of the dark’ situation? Or is it something more, a competitive stubbornness in a competition without competitors? A nonsensical contradiction?
Be proud but not to the extent that nothing else matters, not to the extent of blindness, not to the extent of selective vision, it does not benefit you and it does not benefit anyone else.
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Again there are a few obvious responses to this post even though I have already referred to those, and which are a diversion and a further misinterpretation and then following would be a defensive offence to further diverting the subject and the overall issue which in turn is unproductive and nothing but definite confirmation of the above stated thoughts.
1 (Australia is being used as the main example since this is where I have seen the behaviour described in a most prominent manner, yet the idea could most likely be stretched to include many other nations/communities and other situations as well.)
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