uninstructive thinker
>So much unchallenged racism on this list against americans. Is that OK? I’m
>not saying microsoft doesn’t piss me off, but my impression is of list
>members attempting to create their own private virtual Ivanhoe.
>
>Maybe this list was always defined as being concerned with australian
>issues. that’s OK. But as I have been struggling with in another context,
>it’s not possible to be just Australian any more … We have to have dual
>identities as local and global and I don’t see how relying on outmoded
>concepts of national identity as a basis for a flippant critique is a
>progressive move.
Since when was “American’ a race? And when haven’t we dealt with the
local/global. My own work is centred around this question. Sorry, but I am
just Australian and being just Australian is a complex thing, strewth,
always has been. We need to think carefully about what a nation is, it is
more than just a theoretical construct. There is nothing new with seeing
‘Australian’ as being beneath us. It is beneath us, it was built by people
who now prop us up. The middle class in Australia has always seen
“Australia” as beneath them, at least since the 19th Century. We now have
this new-class of cyber-colonials who are part of the brain-drain with out
even leaving home.