Monday, June 1, 2009

The twinkling cunts of my home town

There are very few people in the developed world's middle-class who would call themselves 'economically left-wing' while many remain 'socially left-wing'. What I have come to understand in my brief existence is that these terms for the middle-class are labels and that the label of 'socially left-wing' is empty jargon. Those who identify as socially conservative end up supporting economically conservative policy. Those who identify as socially permissive end up supporting economically conservative policy because it shows no threat to their status. My anger towards this comes from the political left not practicing what they preach but also for the political right for being outright bastards.

I live in Darwin, an ugly male dominated frontier town with no history past colonisation, mining, trade, and a couple of city leveling events (The bombing of Darwin by the Japanese forces in World War 2 and Cyclone Tracey) The weather here is arresting in the wet season and pleasant during the dry. Not many people live here permanently (probablyaround 100,000) and the population fluctuates up and down with the tourist season and the whims of the free-market. The most prominent demographic here is military personel and the other being people from down south who come to disconnect from their past.

There exist clear class lines in this town that notabley cut down racial lines. Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders form a sort of underclass for the most part. The most common thing for other classes to comment on Aboriginal existence is their smell. They also comment on their anti-social behaviour, their public drunkeness, their fighting, their loud voices or any other thing that can firmly place the Aboriginal underneath them. These people who are constantly under the disapproving gaze are only a small fraction of the the total Aboriginal population but damn them all to being filth in the eyes of the other Darwinites. Darwin is no abnormality by any stretch in Australia when it comes to racism. The only difference is that Aboriginal people weren't wiped out as in other southern states. The fact that the whites didn't kill all the blacks is something that gets on the nerves of all the local dipshits and most of the visiting ones too.

Darwin is above all things a mess.

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