Australia Day. January 26th.

[Ninurta]

Sorry for delay, mother-in-law visit day!
(My mistake, I thought you meant just the grey text)

Yes, I'm interested in Aboriginal culture and how it sits beside the more-modern culture of Caucasians.

I think Australian aboriginal culture has a lot more going on than most non-Aboriginals realize. It's deep, and mostly "alien" in it's concepts to the rest of us - but it had 40,000 to 60,000 years or so to develop and mature in a direction apart from ours, and almost all of that was in isolation, apart from the directions ours were going.

I've been reading up on Aboriginal astronomical observations (there are a lot of downloadable papers on the topic at Academia). and there is a lot more there than folks realize. I'm sure I'm not even grasping the half of it. I believe Aboriginal cultures may be seen as "primitive" by us just because they are alien enough to our experience that we just can't get a handle on what IS there.

For example, I've never fully grasped the Aboriginal concept of the "Dreamtime". I'm not sure there are words in English to adequately explain it to me, and I'm nowhere near well enough versed in any of the Aboriginal languages to have it sink in properly.

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It seems that statue painting is all the Leftist rage currently, worldwide. We've had a lot of it going on here, too, whenever they're not just outright tearing the statues down. It started with Confederate statues, but has now branched out to include any White Person in American history - they'll find a rationale, however far-fetched, to make such persons "racist" and justify their desecrations in their own minds.

The latest rage here is to claim that the Revolutionary War was all about black slavery, I'm not sure how much farther out into Left Field they can get, but there it is. Now they are tearing down statues of revolutionary Patriots, and installing new statues of Marxist "heros". They just installed a bust of "Dr." Huey Newton, founder of the Black Panthers, and have been extolling his "heroism". He was a murderous prick, but no matter that - they have to have SOMETHING to be proud of, even if they have to make it up, I reckon.

My son sent me a link to a thread on the topic of that statue and wanted me to go into it and kick everyone's barstool over, but I didn't. As I explained to him, after reading the thread, it became apparent that it was populated by a bunch of racist "True Believers", and there would be no arguing with them or convincing them of anything. That ain't how True Believers work. They get a notion in their head. then mob up, and will defend that notion to their death - or your death, whichever comes first -  despite the lack of any evidence for their beliefs, and in the face of evidence contradictory to those beliefs. Although it was BLM racists in the thread, using all manner of racist epithets against "whitey" and "crackers" - whitey and crackers being anyone who violated their sacred beliefs - and was the most racist collection of rants since Stormfront. Going into that would be like going to a Klan Rally and telling them that all their mommas secretly wanted to screw a black guy. It just wouldn't fly, at all, and would likely just end in a deadly dogpile.

You have to pick your battles wisely.

I did observe that the bust seems to have been installed indoors, and it's my guess they had to do that because a .308 will make a right mess of a hollow bronze head from a distance.

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