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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:03 AM
A few weeks ago, on 4 Corners I think it was, I saw an article regarding Melbourne University, and how it aimed to align itself more closely to American universities.

I do think that this kind of move in the Tertiary Education sector was somewhat unavoidable, it has in fact been coming for some years.

However, a second glance will reveal something which has been right under the noses of the public for many years now (probably around 12, if memory serves me correctly in regards to how long The Howard REGIME has been in power).

Over the last decade or so, funding for the Arts itself (e.g. dance or ballet companies, opera, our film and record industries) and related arts courses have dramatically dropped. So much so, that the Arts has become now a dismal and almost forgotten part of Australian modern society, and survives, by a very thin thread, on private funding.

Kids at school are aiming for corporate jobs: lawyers, I.T, engineers, accountants, the list goes on. It seems that slowly and surely, the generations following Generation X have been raised and shaped to become slaves to the money churn machine, drones to the corporations: unthinking and undeciding, yet high earning, empty shells.

In my opinion, we can thank no other than the Howard Government for this development. Creativity, the Arts, has been all but shut down. Practically ignored in our society, the media cries when many of our best leave our shores, embarking on successful careers overseas (Nicole Kidman, Heath Ledger etc). After all, what reason have they to stay here? What can a stagnating and rotting industry here do to help them put food on the table? Nothing. A creative, independent thinking Australian is not what this ultra-conservative government approves of it would seem.

It is almost a paradox in a sense - these Liberals seem to strive for an aristocracy, yet in hindsight through the previous centuries, what is aristocracy without Art?

A life without Art is a life without meaning, without expression. This is a hard reality that many students at Melbourne University are now having to deal with. It is a sad, sad reality, and only mirrors what is happening to our decaying modern culture in Australia.

Already, our culture, no longer effected by Arts, is slowly grinding to a halt, to stagnation. Feminism is dead. Shivalry is dead. Romance is dead. Domination is in. Mysogeny is in. Destruction of your enemies, as opposed to working with your enemies, is in. In short, absolutist thinking for absolutist, uncreative culture.

Goodbye, Individuality, goodbye Expression. And welcome, Unthinking Drone.
 
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Tee

 
Welcome to Australia. People think Howard is the shiznit. But he's just plain gh3y. He's a bit like my old boss. Quite a conman and everyone thought he did a great job apart from some people who aren't blind. But when he leaves people are going to realize how fucked up things really are thanks to him. People might disagree but I still think Australia could have avoided the Bali bombings if not for him.

Oh and btw, you did a typo. It's chivalry, not "shivalry"... or were you hinting at your Hindu inner self? :o OMGFFSWTFBBQ.
 
Posted by Tee on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 - 9:21 AM
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