You want your purchases to contribute to the future or present employment of your children, even if it just reduces intense competition in the employment market. This means we need to produce our own consumables within our community, which is an extension of our family. Any community needs to manage it's balance of trade, including our family, our local community, and on up the hierarchy. We need to keep our money in the family and avoid it leaking out. The same for other resources.

Often when people make a mistake they blame others, the same with elections. Marxist's create scarcity, blame the capitalist's, and double down on the scarcity. People often self sabotage.

I agree with ttbn- if you vote Marxist you deserve the outcome.

Every culture needs it's own nation

CM,

I fear that Australia is on the way out. Managed decline has been replacing growth and security since John Howard lost the plot. The Turnbull/Morrison circuses were bad enough, but Albanese Labor seems to be hellbent on deliberately finishing us off.

Greater countries than Australia have gone under throughout history, as have entire civilisations. Given the downward direction of all Western countries except the US, with idiots like Albanese spruiking "strength in diversity" nonsense, the wind and solar debacle, multiculturalism and mass immigration, and Australia being now an ally too unreliable for the US to 'consult' before striking Iran on its own, indicates that we are back to where we stood with the US on two occasions, the 1940s and the 1990s, when America didn't trust us enough to share intelligence.

Trump has not been shy about telling us that he is not impressed with Australia - to put it mildly. He, and the U.S, have no real reason to waste their time and resources on Australia. And we sure as hell can't look after ourselves any more.

Ttbn said "Greater countries than Australia have gone under throughout history, as have entire civilisations."

Answer- Yes, that's my fear. When I see the average Australian flirting with dangerous ideas, and don't see the heavy train of "cause and effect" full of enormous momentum, coming down the track, to kill them, and still don't get out of the way. Just to call them "dangerous idea's" is attractive. I suppose that for those of us who see people building systems to destroy themselves, we can just prepare ourselves for the wreckage, something has to break at some point and 90% of the people will wake up and go through the grief process, and realise that they should have flirted with truth rather than novelty, before it died.

Then we'll tell them the truth again, and they'll start the long journey back through purgatory, and finally to the light.

They have to realise that supporting cultural tradition with small changes is the bedrock that will support themselves, and civilization will destroy them if they try to destroy civilization, and if civilization doesn't destroy them, the outcome is much worse. Because it creates a reality that opposes existence.

Brian Cox calls this "the great filter".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXfFACs24zU

Civilizations need to pass through many gateways of truth, many traps along the path to the future. Sometimes we just outrun our failures with our successes, as they pursue us. All civilizations need to refine themselves to meet challenges, but change is bad by itself, and some will refuse, in spite of appeals, to travel with the civilization and they will be left behind. Sometimes it isn't that civilizations have walked away from minorities, but the minorities have walked away from civilization.

Perhaps this is what Nietzsche saw when he talked of the Übermensch in Zarathustra, the knightly vs envy, the life vs death. The hero's journey through the tunnel of darkness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch

We stand on the shoulders of giants!

There is a narrow path of life, I hope the nihilist's don't block it.

Yes ttbn you did something cool back there when you said that (paraphrasing) "we need to see the reflection of ourselves in our friends (the US)".