I was reflecting on the fate of my country, Australia, and have come to the conclusion that our collective karma is to face the grey bureaucratic soul-eating horror that is communism. Certainly I have faced this struggle for my entire life - indoctrination in the schools during childhood, convinced true believer status in my teens and early 20s, realising that it was my neck next on the block, and a greater and greater appreciation that communism is the worst thing in the world from my mid 20s onwards. Meanwhile the fall has been ongoing the whole time. After 2020-21, they know that they can do absolutely anything they want to us and have no meaningful organised resistance to fear. I'm nearly 40 now. What is this disturbing fate meant to teach us/me, that it keeps coming up over and over and over and over? What does it mean, what does it take, to keep my soul intact in the face of it?
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branchandroot
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Date: 2025-05-05 12:25 pm (UTC)