The world’s oldest living culture.

This statement is patently false. All people alive today have inherited their respective cultures from unbroken lines of ancestors and so all of us represent continuous living and evolving cultures. This claim should be re-stated as “the world’s oldest unchanged culture”. Aboriginal culture remained quite static for millennia. Thirty thousand years ago, and more, all our forebear Homo sapiens were hunter-gatherers, anthropologists today categorising them as paleolithic or stone-age, wood and stone being their main sources of tools. In time, people in some regions developed technologically and culturally, archaeologists describing evolutionary phases as the iron age, bronze age and so on: consider the wheel, writing, musical instruments, houses, clothing, mathematics and forms of engineering.

In the Middle East stonemasons attained levels of skill and sophistication which still astonish us today. In contrast, indigenous Australians never accomplished any of these things. No written language, woven clothing, nor houses consisting of solid walls, a roof, and a doorway. The didgeridoo is today accepted as a musical instrument, but it is very limited in its scope; it cannot be used to play a tune, being confined to droning and barking sounds. Aboriginal numbering systems remained very simple because there was no need for anything more advanced; anyway, without any form of writing or any writing materials it was not possible to perform complicated arithmetic.

Why do the Aborigines have to live up to 'your' expectations of what it means to be 'civilised'?
Why can't you accept them for who they are and more so, who they were - a pristine, untouched culture of people? It's a rare gem - like an Opal, that explorers have searched the world for such, as if trying to find something they had lost long ago and in a way, with regret.
Do you think living in a 'city' means being civilised? When a city can be like living in a prison, like a bird in a cage.
Do you think that being civilised means because you pass knowledge by a book, while they did it through Song-Lines - some of which still tell the stories from 25,000 years ago.

You will never move forward into the future here Boris.
Instead, you'll just recede back to something Euro or American - so why don't you just pack your bags and go there. You obviously can't deal with this part of the world.

The Aborigines 'were' possibly one of the most advanced cultures long ago - especially when most of Europe was a fluctuation of migrations in and out pending the ice sheets. Briton wasn't permanently inhabited until just 6,000 years ago. Is it the fault of the Aborigines that they became 'isolated' with all that they knew at the time? Was it the fault of the Aborigines that the Little Dryas Period of a 10,000 year drought scuttled their way of life here from living to just surviving for that period?

Why would you want just another people doing exactly what you do? Where is the variety in that? The Americans were all about conquering Space - but we are here to conquer 'Time'. You look into the Aborigine glass darkly - thus all you will see is what you complain about.

You are here to learn something. Something wonderful. The whole world is waiting for this Pandora's Box to be opened to make the world move another phase along. Wether you like it or not - they are here to stay.

If they were but children in your 'superior' civilised eyes - heaven forbid how you treat them like animals.

You go your way Boris. But you'll never pass GO and you'll never Collect $200. Best you go where you belong.

Anyway, enough said for now.

Lie No 2 ..... ??????

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jan 31^st, 2023 at 12:06am:



Boris wrote on Jan 30^th, 2023 at 9:42pm:

Indigenous former NT minister Bess Price slammed "welcome to country"
events, and says that paying respect to elders "past and present" and
smoking ceremonies are "bullshit rituals".


Price slammed indigenous symbolism as "a lie".


The 'welcome to country' was adopted into Australia's parliamentary protocols
in 2008, after then prime minister Kevin Rudd delivered his apology to the stolen
generation.

However, two years after that decision Aboriginal entertainer Ernie Dingo claimed
that he invented the concept in 1976 when Pacific Island dancers demanded they
receive a traditional welcome.

       

AusGeoff wrote on Jan 31^st, 2023 at 7:13am:


I know Bess and I know Ernie

The way I see it is if a prime minister is going to spend his time at the tennis while his country turns to shyte then that person just does not care about anything but his back pocket.
Going to the tennis is like saying.... how can he sleep at night while this goes on?

They do not care about us. That much is clear.
So why can't the community step up, sack their reps in government, overthrow the local council and take control of their town again?
Why can't we do that when our system is broken and failing the good people who donate weekly to its cause.

Yeah, yeah, whatever, Matty...  Tsk, tsk, tsk...