I didnt realise how batshit australia was, until covid times. My little brain had them, until then, as basic Brits with wonky accents, sun tans and liked surfing.

I've since learned more - eg, it is illegal not to vote. And when you do vote - they give you a hotdog.

This is an incentive structure drawn up from dog training. They show you the abyss if you dont do what they want, and they show you a child-level incentive if you do the thing (vote, get vaxxed)

Australia is now a feral, orphaned, authoritarian fork of the british empire. They are now distinct from their origin. They became fascist. They had no "home" to stay loyal to, and with that lost direction, became a concentrated and consolidated independent state.

They are a Galapagos Islands of culture and politics. Broke from the continent, in a bubble. Very similar results in south africa. The colonies were wild racists. Stern, mean, brutal. They werent the same people who lived in Great Britain. They were the soldier ants.

So you put them in shit hot countries where everything is trying to kill you, the weather, the animals, diseases, the locals. The food wont grow, etc.

Should we be surprised these societies actually became (partly), the things they competed against?

England made a fucking mess tbh, started the USA, then lost a fight to it. Same Canada, India, The middle east, Oz, Carribean, Africa.

Brittania covered the globe in structure, definitions of right and wrong (in law), and they broke the rules in front of them. Leaving these child-states as they became teenagers.. Evicted from their futures.

Earth - All the broken children of a massive empire. Now they are all a weird copy of the worst aspects of their father, all fucked up and traumatised.

Not many countries that don't derive their root identities from opposition and independence from Britain - their father nation.

This coffee is amazing - byeeee.