- As has always been the case, amateurs (and indeed on some rare occasions) “professionals” alike tend to analyse my identity, rather than anything I say or do. It’s totally the identity which signifies something to them,that is overarching. Then they try to reform my identity and straighten it into conformity with whatever is average, boring, quiet. In Australia, even intellectuals and everyday people are Procrustean thinkers in one way or another. It must be the boring, British heritage. There is also a lot of lower class Puritanism here and many have the guilty conscious of their grandparents who were sent into criminal exile and are just abiding their time in a hateful place until they die and can go and receive their reward in the sky. There’s an extreme disconnect between many people and the natural environment of the Australian bush, which I put down to this original hatred.
Wednesday 7 December 2011
It cuts both ways: analysis
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