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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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Social cohesion? Victorians 'respond'Around 1 in 5, or 20 per cent, of respondents stated that they had been a victim of crime in the past one year. About 70 per cent stated that they had witnessed drunken violence in the past year. Additionally, 42 per cent of respondents noted that they do not possess confidence in the Victorian police force (which was revealed as being corrupt at almost the highest level towards the end of last year). Reflecting upon the decay of social bonds, A baker's assistant and clubber of 10 years from Highett stated in his survey "You would always see a random punch-on or whatever, but now it seems like its every week". We argue, and not because we have an axe to grind but because we believe it is the subtle though admittedly hazy truth that will assist meaningful debate, that we need to assign the correct verbal label to the cause of the growing unrest: poor social design. Make no mistake, in all ages and at all times societies operate under certain prevailing and often unspoken 'codes of conduct' or philosophies which organise people in a certain manor and direct their thinking to various degrees. To various degrees these philosophies spring naturally from the society as a whole or are imposed externally by a particular group. This is not some paranoid hippy belief but one echoed by many great philosophers and social thinkers for over a century. 'Politically correct' ways of thinking are visible examples of such a phenomenon. But how could the current social design and modern social philosophies be causing increased social unrest of the most insignificant and aggressive sort? Well our society is geared almost exclusively in modern times towards 'the economy', producing developments which when dissected and analysed could plausibly be said to lead to natural human and thus social dissatisfaction: The population has been progressively increased for the past number of decades, sprawling increased numbers of human beings and suburbs across the map, congesting roads, coasts and cities to an often offensive degree. Ethnic groups which developed over thousands of years much more independently respective to modern globalised populations have been suddenly squashed together over the past few decades to the dreamy sentiment of 'it all works out, we're all the same, we want the same things, we buy the same things'. We champion an indifferent and base individualism: geared not towards using one's brain independently of the social mass but towards belonging to nothing more than our every whim and desire, promoting a disappointing consumer culture to the more perceptive sorts and also one where if someone feels like kicking the passer-by on the street into unconscious submission with his group of friends, he will. Also, we parrot 'democracy' and 'freedom' when in fact, due to the burgeoning size of the machine that is modern society and the domination enjoyed by the above mentioned ways of thinking, a lone individual has almost no hope of influencing things to any meaningful degree. Perhaps, in addition to the unrest, it comes as no wonder that we are often called a nation of alcoholics. 
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Think of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes! - Henry Lawson |
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