40,000 years and the peak of their culture was music that consisted of banging two sticks together and blowing through a hollow tube, and dot paintings that have all the technique and sophistication of children's drawings.
And yet people want to put them up on a pedestal and say things like they are the traditional caretakers of the land.
Hate to break it to ya champ but the dot paintings were invented by a white guy in the 70s in order to create shit to sell to tourists. Between that and all the dreamtime stories I was made to learn in school (even worse for kids now), and the welcome to country Ernie Dingo wank, I'm sure the majority of so-called aboriginal "culture" is just made up to make them seem like equals of the Europeans who CHOSE to live like proto-hominids eating bugs and tree bark.
This is in aid of the narrative that the land was "stolen" or conquered, like it was a perfect utopia that the evil white men just claimed for themselves. In reality it was a harsh, barren land that needed to be settled and made into something livable. The early settlers were hard as fuck pioneers and nothing like the average Aussie male and female of today.
40,000 years and the peak of their culture was music that consisted of banging two sticks together and blowing through a hollow tube, and dot paintings that have all the technique and sophistication of children's drawings.
And yet people want to put them up on a pedestal and say things like they are the traditional caretakers of the land.
What a load of horse shit.
Hate to break it to ya champ but the dot paintings were invented by a white guy in the 70s in order to create shit to sell to tourists. Between that and all the dreamtime stories I was made to learn in school (even worse for kids now), and the welcome to country Ernie Dingo wank, I'm sure the majority of so-called aboriginal "culture" is just made up to make them seem like equals of the Europeans who CHOSE to live like proto-hominids eating bugs and tree bark.
This is in aid of the narrative that the land was "stolen" or conquered, like it was a perfect utopia that the evil white men just claimed for themselves. In reality it was a harsh, barren land that needed to be settled and made into something livable. The early settlers were hard as fuck pioneers and nothing like the average Aussie male and female of today.