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"IN AUSTRALIA TODAY, there is mounting concern that we might be exposed to the
sort of social and democratic decline so obviously on display in America under
President Donald Trump.
A recently published, major evidence-based report from Australian Community
Futures Planning (ACFP),
The State of Australia 2025, indicates that we are
indeed exposed to such a fate. It shows where and how we are most vulnerable to
a U.S.-style breakdown in social cohesion, personal safety, rights, and
freedoms.
Broadly, the report shows that Australia is most exposed due to:
* growth in inequality — especially political inequality and inequality of
opportunity;
* a lack of human rights;
* an increasingly secretive and unaccountable apparatus of government that
operates at a very unhealthy distance from the expressed wishes of Australians
for peace, safety and security;
* a corporate sector intent on attacking participation by Australians in their
own economy and democracy;
* a succession of governments that have refused to specify and abide by decent
ethical standards in their decision-making;
* slavish idolatry of a failed economic system — neoliberalism (a system of
grand theft by the few from the many);
* an apparent vulnerability to divisive dogma about other cultures and ethnic
groups (in other words, a vulnerability to racist tropes); and
* a system of governance which has offered neither equal suffrage, nor a
reasonable share of power for the people, nor a process by which trust can be
established in parliaments and governments.
The combination of these factors is extremely dangerous, especially at a time
when a growing number of other countries are falling prey to the same divisive
influences and declining into forms of neo-fascism. "
Via Violet Blue’s
Threat Model - The View From Here
https://www.patreon.com/posts/view-from-here-124530345
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
