“It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.”
-Oswald Spengler
Though opinion differs on exact first dates for Indo-Germanic settlement, it is an undisputed fact that the West Australian ‘Wheatbelt’ remains a bastion of this unique and perplexing culture. Even to the untrained eye, what might otherwise constitute a scene of agrarian tranquillity may suddenly burst violently into bloom, laden with the heavy fruits of this strange and warlike race.
Though many have attempted to surmise, no-one truly knows precisely whence they came, or why. Their ultimate origin remains forever shrouded in mystery.
Perhaps it is therefore unsurprising that the inexorable, Faustian tensions that plague this bucolic people tend to resolve themselves by… complex means.
‘In tragic natures, art is the remedy that liberates them from knowledge. Such a person finds life disturbing; it immediately retreats from him like an image, and he finds this disturbed life worth depicting.’
– Nietzsche
What immense, what protean force could possibly account for the raw vigour, the dangerous audacity of these pastoral Parsifals, who so doggedly pursue their manifest destiny?
“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”
– Goethe
Truly, this is a culture steeped in riches of every kind, a capitol bedecked with all the lavish bounty of its tributaries…
… But, at what cost?
Won’t somebody think of the children?
The Worst of Perth 
Troubling…
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Verna, Verna:
What has become of you?
Does any other TWOPer here
Feel the way I do?
(Where the hell are you, JJ?)
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That sheep looks vaguely familiar. I guess if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.
WARNING : Last link NSFW
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Or?
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“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”
– Goethe
Sometimes I wish that I was more broadly read and able to summon up such apposite descriptions of these attributes of everyday Australian society.
Ubiquitous “Aggressive stupidity” that bewilders and confuses the intelligent mind and leaves it terminally “boggled”.
Like “Chickenman” they’re every where.
This weekend worst is, indeed, a fine sample of the pervasiveness of this characteristic.
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Perhaps a little more broadly Googled than read (in my case anyway), but I agree. Aggressive stupidity, willful ignorance, bloody-minded contrariness, spiteful avarice etc etc etc etc etc
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Goethe but no Justin Langer? C’mon!
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Goethe but no Justin Langer?
Are you sure?
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Nice Holden youve got there!
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Wait. You’re not the real TL 101… are you?
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Yes i am, im using my other computer so the picture next to name changed.
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Superb photo framing, love the barbed wire and the dotted capital ‘I’s
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That ewe removing her fleece should be the Postergirl for the 2012 Inseminators B&S Ball!!
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