Letter

In response to Australian media’s ‘China threat’ narrative is a never-ending story

The end is nigh!

Australian politicians are avid proponents of the ideas that were created by the US and UK prior to and during the First World War. At the time they needed to convince the UK and US populations of the need for them to send their sons to be slaughtered in the trenches of France in support of a Feudal kingdom warring against other such kingdoms.

Their chosen weapon was fear, as they had learned that it was the best motivator of ignorant hatred. Vivid stories were concocted about the intrinsic evil of the German people. It worked to convince essentially peace-loving people to send their sons to die in defense of Feudal privilege.

Current politicians, bouyed by generous funding from the Military-Industrial complex, rather than thinking originally, fall back on the same basic fears to achieve a population willing to obey anyone who assures them of their safety from the confected foe.

It just goes to show that political leadership in democracies doesn’t change over the centuries, as they simply repeat the past disasters they are intellectually unable to think past. Santayana was right.Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to endlessly repeat it!!!

— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041