It’s sad to see Australian major sports events going the same way as New Zealand with nonsensical irrelevant tokenism re their indigenous race.
In New Zealand it’s the massively embarrassing haka, an aggressive war dance trotted out at every opportunity. Now following suit, major sporting fixtures in Australia are preceded by a platitudinous speech by a part aboriginal, accompanied by an appalling drone from the world’s least musical instrument, the bloody didgeridoo.
This woke tokenism is spreading rapidly in Australia. Consider this.
Recently work on an $18.7billion gas project, in a remote northern location, scheduled to power 8.5 million homes over the next 30 years, was stopped by the Federal Court. Why?
Because a part aboriginal women with that fine old aboriginal name of Raelene Cooper, complained that the drilling would upset so called Spirit Whales, these being mythical creatures according to indigenous legend.
Raelene gave evidence that according to fable, the spirit whales tell fish what to eat, when to mate and so on, and upsetting them would cause marine chaos.
The idiotic judge, while neither confirming or denying that spirit whales exist, ruled that Woodside, the huge mining corporation involved, must stop work and consider the “cultural harm” of proceeding. We in New Zealand know how that will be resolved, namely by money which will apparently appease the spirit whales.
But in laughing at this crap, we must remember that western society is equally guilty of exactly the same silliness, in our case of fictitious religious mythology, notably Christianity.
While its impact is fast diminishing, it still inhibits our lives in numerous ways with restraints on Sunday activities and so on. In short, for all the amazing technological advances of modern society, humanity is still bound up in primitive mythology that defies any rational explanation.