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Robyn S's avatar

Somehow I don't think this applies to Australia! We are still an effective penal colony, and rather than work towards a revolution like those in Europe, the inmates (voters) know their place and behave accordingly. Thus those in power can take the country for as many rides as they like.

Whilst occasional people here and there in Australia want to make real change, the vast majority are not interested. And worse, still, even when a large percentage of the people do not like what is happening, taking to the streets and throwing Molotov cocktails and the like are still...not the done thing...

The last time we had the MOST people ever rallying in Oz was a few years back, where about a million people marched on Canberra. The MSM said it was a few thousand of course and barely gave it any air time. But our grievance with covid and the mandates were still ignored. Why? Because we were too...gentle. We accept it when TPTB ignore us, like little children. We don't push back time and time again. We just say "ok then" and get on with things, even unhappily. And revolutions don't happen when the population is so compliant, or when they have 'nice' demonstrations.

But when demonstrations turn ugly, it doesn't lead to revolutions, either. It's just the government stomping on people, reminding them that they're big and we're small. Has Victoria had any big rallies since the state shot at their own people with rubber bullets? I don't think so.

See, I think Australia IS the type of country where the government DOES use brutal force against their citizens. Remember - we're still a penal colony! If the citizens can be safely ignored, like that million marching on Canberra, then no brutality is necessary. But do not be fooled into thinking that because we seem like a more chilled out society that our governments will not use force against us. They have. And they will again. Australia is almost as Commie as they come. We think we have Freedom, but when push comes to shove, the citizens chicken out. And they do this because they have been taught, for generations no less, that the governments control us - and not the other way around. For the most part, Australians have NO idea what Freedom even is.

Fager 132's avatar

The Australian government has done a really good job of keeping people infantilized and tame. Any time the dominant cultural ethos holds that some people are the means to the ends of others, and not ends in themselves, force and violence become offensive weapons. They're no longer the last resort of someone acting in self-defense. They're public policy.

Michael Laprez's avatar

Good essay listing all the recent color/flower revolutions of the last 25+ years and noting the common threads and funding/training sources. This is the "world revolution" -- there really is such a thing. As far as I know, its goals and strategies were first spelled out by the Bavarian Illuminati in the late 1700s and its first real manifestation was during the French Revolution. At that time, overthrow of monarchy and the Church. Later on, Marxism was only one phase of this movement until it was no longer useful.

This is traced out in detail up to 1956 in Douglas Reed's jaw-dropping book "The Controversy of Zion". Eastern Orthodox Priest Father Seraphim Rose also follows it in his "Orthodox Survival Course" of the early 1980s.

I am a former (American) Quaker and the Quakers are all about these kind of revolutions and will eagerly participate. Anything with the label "nonviolent" draws them like bees to honey.

Do we not see this being implemented in the US today, with BLM and other leftist disruptive movements? (Who delivers the pallets of bricks to the street?) The world revolution does not have to be nonviolent in all instances; it is adapted to the particular time, place, and circumstances.

Nobody's avatar

Imagine what world awaits in the Project For A Good American Century...

Libertarian Overwatch's avatar

Thank you very much for the opportunity to write about these revolutions!

larsetom1's avatar

The "revolutions" you describe, should they maybe be called counter-revolutions? They appear to serve the geopolitical interests of the US and its junior partners.