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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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Religion?When I first began to realise that A.N.U.S. was not as anti-religious as I had originally thought I was not angry, but rather curious. I knew that these were people with knowledge that quite probably went beyond my own, leading me to believe that if they were not radical atheists, then they probably knew something about religion that I did not. Soon after this I read the Bhagavad-Gita, an important Hindu scripture, and was able to see that the ideas communicated were very similar to the philosophy of A.N.U.S. It promoted a transcendental worldview where the individual overcame their ego in favour of finding their place within a cosmic order. This gave them purpose and hope where before had been meaninglessness. With this in mind I noticed that other religious scriptures seemed to contain similar ideas, although they were more obscured in some than others. At first the individual was isolated within themselves; their lives only had subjective meaning, revolving mostly around their ego and emotions. When they began to understand their relative insignificance they had an inner crisis. Eventually they realised that the only way to overcome this existential void was to align themselves with an order that was higher than their own existence. By doing this they took part in the eternal and transcendent cosmic cycle, contributing to the rhythm of nature and satisfying their existential need by breaking down the boundary between the individual and transcendent reality. In this way they became immortal because they were no longer just an individual, but part of something which could not be effected by physical events. The physical application of this transcendent ideal is culture. Through culture each individual is given a place that reflects their character. This opposes the modern doctrine of individualism which teaches that inequality is immoral and that each individual should strive only to satisfy their most basic physical desires. Confining each individual to a life of meaningless consumerism and impersonal, boring work not only fails to satisfy the individual existentially, it creates an unstable society that can be destroyed by even the slightest of challenges, because it has no binding element allowing it to act with unity in a time of crisis. Religion allows for a society to partake in transcendence and in doing so unifies it culturally. Modern Christianity seeks only to push the individual further in to the world of subjective self; this is utterly contrary to the original purpose of religion. This new found meaning in religion did not blind me to the fact that many modern manifestations of Christianity are a sham; but I realised that the problem lay not in the religion itself, but in the fact that it had become subject to the will of the crowd. Much like modern politics, modern religion caters for the lowest common denominator and nothing else. That is why the modern brands of Christianity preached are often so simplistic and also self-orientated, because the people who now define it only want what is easy and pleasing at the time. The radical atheist movement, led by those such as Richard Dawkins, is yet another modern movement that becomes obsessed with a problem that in itself is not huge, and loses its holistic focus. Much like the neo-Nazis with their fear of non-whites, and Christians with their fear of death, the radical atheists are essentially a negative movement which only tries to eliminate a problem, without offering a genuine solution. These negative movements are doomed to failure because they create an entire ideology out of one aspect of reality, and in doing so lose focus on everything else. The solution is to perceive the cause of these problems and more importantly, how the process that brings them about can be replaced by a more natural one. Only a positive, holistic view that unites all aspects of society, including religion can stem the tide of modern decadence, or rampant and accelerating individualism. Rather than destroy religion we should concentrate on restoring its inner meaning, that of transcendence; individuals aligning themselves with a higher order of things. By Moses 
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Think of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes! - Henry Lawson |
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