Originally posted by HowlrunnerIV
The only thing the various Aboriginal societies produced were their societies. (yes, yes, and a few hand prints on cave walls and rock paintings in Kakadu, etc.
The single biggest acheivement they had, and I'm not denigrating it at all (just the opposite), is that with an incredibly limited gene pool they survived without inbreeding for tens of thousands of years. Thanks wholly and solely to the incredibly complex rules of "skin" and "caste" they developed to prevent just such a catastrophe from occurring.
Oh, and they pretty much didn't rape the land they way we have.
I was referring to the 200 years of "white" colonisation and what we've acheived. What has our society acheived that is so incredibly superior to Lebanon?
A bunch of drunk, flag-wearing, chest-beating, dole-bludging bogans? Some acheivement.
Lebanon's history goes back thousands of years. Ours, that is the people on Cronulla Beach "defending" Australia, goes back 200 years. And then it begins with criminals.
Looks like we've come a long way...
You sound really bitter, i love the place , and i flew here and wasnt born here !!
I agree the enviroment has taken a pounding here, but i bet its taken a lot less of a pounding than virtually every other country on the planet. We have great enviromental protection, world heritage areas, national parks , recycling centers,animal refuges, and so much more going on to help the enviroment. Hell a enviromental scientist friend of ours gets on government trips all the time to monitor frog habitats and other great little projects.
I think the big thing weve acheived that is far superior to Lebanon is a free country with equality for all (all sexes/colours/faiths/religions/sexual orientation), a country that was formed on a vote, not a war.
If lebanon is so fantastic, go live there, i would if i shared your conviction. Im sure alot of Lebanese must dissagree with you thou or they wouldnt live here ? just a thought.
Cheers.
[edit on 15-12-2005 by NumberCruncher]


