Posted by sigismund on March 14, 2010, at 22:45:34
In reply to Dalat » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on March 14, 2010, at 12:19:57
I grew up knowing that people were among the least important things.
This is because we were a settler society that had profited greatly from a recent and unacknowleged crime.
Racism was needed to keep it unconscious. Class was needed for the same reason.Every so ften something would upset the applecart.
A venerable great aunt from England (a lot of freight there) came and said that only the nouveau riche had their silver on display.
And we thought we were the Royal Family. But then they say the Royal family is very new on the block too.
It's all too silly to mention.I'm glad you responded to my post.
I've been worried that they are not psychological enough for this board, although I try to make them so and everything is connected.The other thing I notice here is about relations between the sexes.
There seems to be a rule against men and women showing sexual attraction in public. No kissing, certainly.
My wife and I walk around holding hands at times and that feels OK, but I'm not so sure about hugs.
OTOH there is quite free and easy contact between members of the same sex.
Young men and women and especially boys and girls will stand around with their arms around each other in a way that suggests friendship rather than anything erotic.
It is like that all through the parts of Asia I've visited.If that had happened when I was growing up there would have been the Spanish Inquisition about it, culminating in the visit to the office.
I feel it had something to do with the distant relations between fathers and sons......God knows, I don't understand it.
But I will repeat here a fact about Australia that many find confronting. There was a man who had sex with more than one thousand boys around from 1960-70 not one of whom complained.
He came to light for quite different reasons.
The question raised was 'Why did not ONE complain?', and the only answer that makes any sense is that there was this huge hunger for friendly sensual contact, which they might have received from their friends or their parents but which they were forced to live without as the hue and cry about homosexuality surrounded them like a witchcraze. Many boys would spend half a decade with almost no touch.No wonder relations between the sexes there were just as Neanderthal. Australia has changed though.
Another thing not to pass on.
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