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Corrupt Australia presents an alternative to the politically correct channels of debate to reveal and scrutinize the skewed structure/design of modern Australian society. We also seek to encourage autonomous Australian culture which is free from the standardizing and overly materialistic clutches of globalisation and which encourages citizens to go further than simply contributing to a quantity over quality mindset and the banal and unsustainable conditions under which we may increase our love for and attainment of material mass. |
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Education of the UndermanWhen I first went to university I got excited, not just because there were girls as I came from a boy's school, I also got excited because I believed I would learn something new and be more challenged than at high school. What I discovered however was that it was no different to high school, in fact the only difference was that the university students were from privileged backgrounds. As I became friends with some of the students, I realized even though they were nice people, their only objective for being there was to improve their status in life. They wanted to do the appropriate course, get as high grades as possible so they could then get into some graduate program at some corporation. They had no real yearning for knowledge and intellectual endeavor. They just saw it as a means to an end. Because of the liberal notions of equality for all, including education at university level, the system is becoming corrupt. University is now a farce and a waste of resources because ultimately the masses that attend don't care for anything but themselves and their standing in life and what they can get out of anything. What I'd normally hear before exam time was people rote learning stuff for the exam and only for that reason. This led me to believe that very few people think at all. Thinking is an uncommon activity and one that is only exerted in a process that is designed to manipulate other people and the system. Thinking beyond this is seen as unnecessary to many common people and to do so would even provoke ridicule as they believe that the inquisitive person would be wasting unnecessary thinking time that could be used for further manipulation of people around them. Plagiarism is also rife at undergraduate levels and even at Master's level. This plagiarism is a symptom of the underlying dysfunction of the status objectives of the students. What is the point of the process of education when students cheat if it isn’t for status? It's even gotten to the extent where there are signs in exam toilets warning students not to use mobile phones for cheating purposes. It is obviously an all pervasive problem with the university system. The fact that it happens at all should ring alarm bells for our society. Should not these students who pursue university studies have a genuine interest in what they are learning? Another problem I found with our university system was the large number of international students that pay for their university education. Normally I would find the ideal of international students studying in Australia an appealing one as they can learn about our culture and Australian students can learn more about international cultures. However the universities that encourage them to come to Australia don't really care about educating the international students. In fact a large portion don't even meet the minimum requirement for basic English comprehension! This also meant that there was very little interaction between the international students and the Australian students because of the language barrier. They were just a product of extreme capitalism and globalization which produces very little for society in Australia and in their home countries except for how to create more sterile environments that efficiently produce goods and services with built in obsolescence. I believe that education needs to be restructured to two levels. At one level there should be a learning system that is based on critical thinking and a yearning for learning for students that genuinely want to think and advance their knowledge and this should be for two reasons. The first reason is to advance ourselves culturally and improve society and the environment. The second reason is to produce goods and services in an efficient way but to do so that fits in with the first reason, to improve society and the environment. On the second level education should be based on technical and general skills for the average person. The technical skills should be based on a trade, clerical work, sales and even general practice medicine. The general skills should be based on skills needed for everyday life and can include cooking, driving, budgeting and even manners. Only a minority of the population would fit into the first category as very few people have a genuine interest in thinking and learning. Most people belong in the second category and there is actually nothing wrong with this fact as we cannot all be thinkers. Intellectuals in society should claim control of universities and have real power to determine who should be educated as it is completely unrealistic to expect every person to become an academic as it only results in the corruption of our university system. By Nicaea Delyan 
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Think of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes! - Henry Lawson |
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