Time for myself to reflect on how much Australian Nationalism tries to be a poor reflection of American Exceptionalism. Not the reality, just the myth that gets projected by media and culture.

Australian governments generally agree without hesitation to send troops to every USA quagmire, albeit mostly as miniature-poodle forces. We are currently playing a game of diplomatic ding-dong with China, to our detriment, in a lap-dog effort to curry favour our USA overlords and their Military Industrial Complex. Having a foreign enemy to harp on about is the only way the current Australian government can pretend it is looking after us.

We buy their off-cast extremely expensive lemony weapon systems, including their recent flying lemon-pig-fighter. Drone remote warfare is unfortunately the future. Killing people from far away is becoming world’s best practice, and the war-gamers do love to practise. Another reason that Australia follows behind the US into nearly every free shoot zone.

We harass Chinese citizens and scholars in Australia, because they might “influence” the thinking and words of obscure political representative seat holders in migrant electorates, particularly those of recent generations of migration from foreign cultures. Speaking out against demonising China as the current global threat is a political capital crime.

China itself is a giant global environmental disaster. Like the USA, it has signed up for the brief Faustian bargain predicament of exponential growth. China has adopted every modern technology solution towards growth in production and consumption, making every necessary sacrifice and bridge burning, and social engineering along the way. Successful accommodations to all of its goals mean future disasters, a climb up to the giddy heights of the viscious circle principle, from which to fall down when some Jack of all consequences chops down their bean-stalk.