Not a word

It has all been too much.

We made an escape down the coast. A change of scenery. Seeking surf.

On a back beach far from buildings, we found a messy little break. Not many waves caught, but beautiful clean water, fresh enough to have a cooling effect after the hottest night of the summer so far.

And a very close dolphin encounter, three of them surfacing within a body length from me. Which always makes time in the water become very special.

Sitting at a cafe now, ready to eat, surrounded by the in-crowd in this little coastal town, listening to the easy banter on a Sunday morning.

Australia has so much to offer. As a previous Prime Minister of our land said recently, our children don’t get shot, we have excellent free health care, our political system would never allow a mafia criminal to gain the highest office, we have the opportunity to become a world leader in renewable energy. Why are we so tethered to the myth of the USA? Does military might mean so much?

There has been a massive backlash this week in Australia towards the ties we have with the USA. Surely it is time we unplugged this relationship? Oh yes please. Shall we finally forge our identity, non longer a colony of the British bowing to a king, nor a supplicant to US hegemony?

Yet our foreign minister, a woman I once admired so much, spreads the propaganda about what happened in Amsterdam with football hooligans, defending the powerful Israeli lobby where anything at all that is even mildly a critique of Israel, is seen as anti-semitic.

The word anti-semitic has lost all agency.

Unless the world gives cart blanche to Israel to do whatever it wants, you are anti-semitic. But how can the world let Israel do whatever the hell it wants when that includes genocide and apartheid? And these particular football hooligans, known for their racism, hate and bigotry, terrorise a city, and the Western world leaders all rush to defend them, using that no longer relevant word as if it was a violation of something sacred.

But the people of Gaza not being allowed to return to the North after they have been bombed and exterminated out. Not a word.

Not a word.

It is clear what will happen next, to North Gaza.

No wonder people feel so worked over by the system that they will vote for anything that doesn’t look like the system, even if it is the system dressed in drag.

Tinkering will not do it. More of the same will not do it. More of the same dressed in a costume will not do it. Hate will not. Love on its own will not.

Change is only going to come from a place where there is genuine care for all life as the central organising principle.

Photo Taken November 10th 2024, Article written November 10th 2024

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