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I'm a nice conservative. I'm an old school traditionalist. I believe in keeping Indigenous language, culture, and land management practices alive. I'm very judgemental about people who immigrate to Australia and learn English, national language of England, but won't learn even a word in any of our wonderful native languages.
I'm a polytheist, of the old school pre-Roman variety who believes in all gods of all religions, while worshipping a smaller pantheon. I think the newfangled religious trends are very immoral. Monotheism is a fad and won't last. And that Paul fellow did a very bad number on Jesus' Jewish cult. I believe in conserving the original message of Jesus, not this new prosperity gospel shit. Fuck the pope and fuck Henry 8.
Economically I think capitalism is a disaster, and we should go back to communism, which worked just fine in Australia for 65,000 years. I respect the Elders of the land on which I live, and wish to see them made leaders of an old school government, get rid of this new monarchy business.
I want to see more traditional magical practices in the sciences. It's called two-way science and it's very interesting. Old school wisdom has been ahead of science for a long time. For example, there are histories kept by the old people, which say a lot of the islands around Australia used to be connected to the mainland. Scientists used to think those myths weren't true. Then they found out about the ice age. The old people already knew about the ice age.
Oh, and I don't like tiktok.