Foxy said- "Let this country go back to the cultural backwater that it
once was!"

Answer- A backwater is a pond of still water and because it doesn't flow can be prone to disease and dead fish as well as algal blooms. Saying that Australia was a cultural backwater during the White Australia policy is like saying that Australia's Culture was sick and diseased during this period and so needed to be cut out with a scalpel. Since the time of "the terror" in the 1790's Madam Guillotine Communists have talked equality but in a sense the so called fascist west has been the ideology that has done the most for equality. When socialists and communists get their way it usually means less equality for the masses.

Paul1405 commented quite rightly on the uninformed view that Dostoevsky is irrelevant to the west and Australia in particular. But Marx traveled between Manchester, Paris and Russia between 1850 and 1880's so you can see how his ideology may have spread to all parts of the west. Also one sees the same ideology discussed in todays society.

I've an engineering not a literary background but I try to learn the classics- the internet is great as it often presents complex books in simple forms through short animations- if one cares to look- and if one is aware- much can be gleened from this.

Dostoevsky's The Demons was based on the late 1860's murder of a communist (Ivan Ivanov—at the Petrovskaya Agricultural Academy in Moscow) that decided that the group was too extreme (murdered by Sergey Nechayev and the Nechayevists).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demons_(Dostoevsky_novel)

Dostoevsky also wrote The Idiot also seemingly about Communism.

Dostoevsky's ancestry hails from a region that was part of the Lithuanian Empire (the Pinsk region) his father a doctor and he was an engineer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky

Oh Dear.

Canem Malum has either deliberately
misrepresented what I said
(on the top of page 10, of this discussion) , or he
prefers to give his own interpretation on what
he thinks people have said. Not on what they actually did
say and in what context.

So with all due respect I shall try to clear things
up. Blind Freddie could see that what I said was -
sarcastic.

It included - sentences like - "Yes - by all means lets
ignore the calls from business groups and aged care and hospital
service providers who say they are desperate for staff..."
And more... - ending with -
"Lets this country go back to the cultural
backwater that it once was. Fortunately, most
Australians don't think that way!"

That sentence was left out by CM.

Hi Paul,

One of my favourite works of Dostoevsky was -
The Brothers Karamazov." In it was "The
Grand Inquisitor." Which even today I
find interesting. Worth getting hold of.

I understand that Foxy wants to create a world where British people don't have their own territory. She must have a reason for her beliefs.

On a different topic I was reading- I was surprised too- it's interesting that Lithuanian Jewish people were some of the most persecuted in Europe in the 1940's and for whatever reason went from 45% of the population in Vilnius to about 2000 a few years later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Jews

Jewish Lithuanian's must think that their situation is so unfair- and perhaps anything can be justified in order for their culture to survive- even the genocide of other peoples- in the struggle for power and security.

Communism and French revolutionaries justified 'The Terror' in the name of freedom and equality. I suppose this is just the way that Humanist Nihilist's express their love of humanity. Some might call this Hate but obviously need re-education- to death if necessary.

Perhaps two cultures can at the same time commit genocide to each other- all the while both pointing the finger. That doesn't mean that both are equally entitled to the territory.

In many cases immigration propaganda appears to have been used to justify invasion.

The British Culture needs to learn that many we help will treat our kindness as a sign of naive weakness- reminiscing on stories such as Foe's Moll Flanders.

The Australian business community often has a short term "power" vision in contra distinction to the legitimacy of British Culture's legacy to their descendants.

Classic Machiavellian divide and conquer.

Why is it fair for some cultures to claim their legacy but racist for others?

There will always be conflict between cultures- forcing them together just emphases it- each competing for dominance- and it's hard to understand what is happening because the borders between the cultures has been purposefully blurred. We need borders between cultures and nations

There will always be "confidence artists" convincing you that it's your moral duty to give your life and belongings and heritage to them. They don't care for you! That doesn't mean that you don't sometimes do "nice" things to set a good example- transcendence.

Your ancestors fought for what you have today- taking a dry lifeless continent and making it support life- creating blood from the stones by indomitable will- don't let it end with you- your declining descendants cursing your name as your family becomes dust.