What happened Australia

So we had this great country where a fair go was the norm, where beach goers thronged to the water in summer without being scared crazy by melanoma warnings.

Where a tan was a sign of good heath and where our vitamin D levels were top notch.

Where surfing was a national pastime and people defended your right to do it.

Where having fun was important.

Where people really didn't mind what you said because you were allowed to speak your mind. I think they called it "free speech".

Where people came here to be like us, not change us into something else less valuable.

Where the kids were not full of drugs or entitled.

Where success was based on how hard you worked and how much experience you had.

Where the cops were reasonably fair and were not purely engaged in revenue raising.

Where farmers were respected for the value they brought to the community, not targeted by looney fringe groups on how they treat their animals.

Obesity was almost unheard of.

Where sports players played the game and not the man.

Where winning was important but not everything.

Where success wasn't measured in wealth or GDP.

Where politicians respected each other and had the good grace to keep their lies from us and not appear to be blatantly biased.

So what happened?
What went wrong?
Who is responsible?
Are we ourselves to blame?
What would happen if we had a war?
Would we survive?
Is anyone out there brave and talented enough to lead us out of this?
The country that gave it all away - our inventions, our smarts and our raw resources, and our freedom. - why?
Why did we allow this?

When we wake up and realise something no-one ever imagined before.

Just as many species do not appear to have the ability to be self aware (like a magpie attacking its reflection in a window), what state of consciousness, awareness or understanding  are humans physically unable to grasp, that is treasured and accepted as the baseline in intelligence by advanced life forms?

Education

Where did 2 years go?
Humans have difficulty transitioning from one generation to the next, complete with wisdom and common sense. It seems human youth cannot accept truths from their elders. They learn and accept truth most easily if allowed to make the same mistakes their parents made.

change

People say that “the more things change, the more they stay the same”.

But things do change – cities get bigger, cars change shape and run on less fuel, and handheld electrical devices seem to get smaller. Animals are going extinct at a crazy rate and land clearing increases exponentially.

So why do we think things stay the same?

Maybe it’s because the people tend to stay the same. React the same way, feel the same emotions, make the same mistakes, experience the same trials and tribulations from generation to generation.

Love, pride, greed, fun, laughter, loss and sadness… ever present and reappearing when we least expect it.

Speed of light - time travel??

Did you know that eventually many stars in lots of galaxies will just appear to disappear from the night sky? Of course they will still be there, but because our galaxy is speeding up in one direction and those in another, eventually light from receding galaxies will not actually reach earth due to the increasing speeds we are moving away from each other at. Cool huh?

 We can fix it by sending a telescope towards the receding stars at half light speed relative to us and send back the pictures it sees. it will still see the stars we cannot by essentially "standing still" in space as we fly one way and the opposite galaxies fly the other. :)

 

Population imbalance - population control

If we don't populate Australia adequately some other country with a big population will do it eventually. Read up on your history. It's always one big repetitive story. Big wins over little. Wars are only a distant memory in young people's imaginations, A conflict is only a catastrophe away -  a gender inbalance in one country of 40 million males could be such a trigger, or lack of water.

Global warming

It's the weirdest thing to have your nations leader tell me today the world is getting hotter when I battled 4 degree daytime temperatures today in gale force winds laced with stinging fine rain. Summer this year just gone was lucky to hit 35 degrees maybe once. When I was a kid in the sixties, temperatures hit 37 degrees every day for up to 6 weeks over summer with no rain. Now that was hot. Don't see that anymore. I have a feeling we might be facing global cooling. Beware the Atlantic conveyor!