Australia is a case study on how refusing to understand context makes you incredibly stupid.

All our political discourse exists in the hermetically sealed vacuum of now. There is no past and no future, just the daily talking points (read lies) which will be abandoned as soon as they have been said.

We've replaced the past with comfortable fairy tales that lead us away from power structures and into idiotic partisan narratives that are the opposite of reality.

A PM from the ALP right faction who went to war with the left is remembered as the leading left wing political icon. The Liberal PM who drove a stake through our society's stability mechanisms is remembered as a right wing Messiah that delivered stability and prosperity.

Very few people have any understanding of how we got to the constant state of crisis. Many can't even identify that our society is in crisis. It leads to a culture of complacency and blind partisan allegiance.

Until that changes our society will continue to disintegrate and we will deserve it.

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