Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: đ Sunday, November 17, 2024
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨days⊠agoI think we do have our own culture otherwise we would still be a clone of Britain. We used to be but because of migration we are drifting further away from that which is a beautiful thing.
wscholermann@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
I think we still have an awful lot of Britishness Iâm our institutions and so on. And probably a lot of globalist corporate and consumer culture now as well - hence the emptiness.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
I mean this in the most nicest way possible. Just because you feel emptiness it doesnât mean everybody else does. Iâm an optimist and Iâm gonna find the good in as much as I can.
wscholermann@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
To clarify, I wasnât suggesting everyone does feel this way.
However it must be said that my view on Australian life is hardly an outlier. Official statistics on the matter are alarming and rising, and these are official numbers, to say nothing of all the people that arenât being accounted for.
www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/mental-health#%3âŚ.
To put it succinctly:
âIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Jiddu Krishnamurtiâ
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
You need to find your Ikigai (life purpose).
Nath@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
I am constantly aware that I work in a bubble of very smart, talented and fairly-paid people. That the people I work with arenât a slice of âaverageâ Australia. But within that bubble of IT workers, we absolutely have that global cultural influence CEO was speaking about.
Then thereâs the kids. They go to school in a mix of kids from all over. Its a great equaliser. They donât know where their mates âare fromâ, almost everyone was born here. I get it from their names.
Itâs easy to look at the news and think our influences are all US/UK. But I think as each generation goes by, theyâll be less central to what makes an Australian.
What emerges from that mix? Iâm keen to see it. What we already have is clearly recognised by the British themselves as something distinctly separate from their culture.