Quantum of decline

The Spectator Australia 9 May 2024

On too many fronts, our civilisation and our decency are crumbling before our eyes. The beauty, of course, of the great Western democratic experiment is that all reasonable viewpoints are legitimate to hold and to be debated, respectfully, but the exercising of none should restrict the freedoms and beliefs of others. This compact, which has seen Australia excel to become up until recently the most perfect multiracial nation on Earth, is now gravely at risk. As throughout America, Europe and Great Britain woke intolerance and leftist extremism have corrupted our norms, coupled with unrelenting pressure from antisemites, radical LGBTIQ+ activists, climate cultists and anti-white fanatics seeking to overturn our traditional Judeo-Christian way of life.

The two essentials for the success and prosperity of any great nation are its natural resources and its intellectual depth. When combined with a healthy work ethic and a shared sense of purpose and morality, a nation so blessed is, or should be, unstoppable.

It is tragic to chart the demise of Australian ‘exceptionalism’, but it is there for all to see. Our once great universities, hitherto among the finest in the world, are now suffering from the academic vandalism of five decades of wanton neo-Marxist propaganda. Although we can still hold our heads high in medicine and some other areas of tuition, the politicisation and subversion of basic arts and sciences degrees in our universities is a national disgrace. Decades of academic abuse has seen greedy, overpaid vice-chancellors happy to rake in the millions from overseas students whilst blithely ignoring the toxic mental sludge of gender studies, queer studies, climate studies, critical race theory, fantasy ‘First Nations’ studies and other such cesspits of lazy and pernicious leftist thought that have polluted the minds of two, possibly three, generations of young Australians.

Science itself has been treated contemptuously, with the obscenity of vaccine mandates and other unscientific measures during COVID-19 to the idiocy of the net zero mantras and its accompanying desecration of agriculture, mining, swathes of our natural environment and our energy supplies.

Thus, we lay waste to the strengths that have made us who and what we are.

Simultaneously, we pollute the intellectual wellspring of our youth upon whom our future prosperity depends.

Those individuals currently ‘protesting’ in favour of the barbaric forces and criminals responsible for the repugnant Hamas atrocities of 7 October in southern Israel are a case in point. On that vile day, Jewish women were raped in front of their families as their babies were burned alive. No human being worthy of the name can explain away or justify those crimes – crimes worthy only of absolute and unequivocal condemnation. Yet it would appear that the heads of our most prestigious universities, not to mention the academic staff and ignorant students, are so mired in the poison of identity politics and moral equivalence that they flounder to distinguish between the most basic manifestations of good and evil, of barbarity and self-defence, of terrorism and national security, of civilisation and depravity.

No nation can survive if its ‘brightest’ people are so devoid of rational thought and moral clarity.

The weak leadership of our universities is echoed in the appalling political leadership now on offer to Australians. The Albanese government and its Labor state equivalents have displayed nothing but contempt for the norms of our democracy and for the aspirations of everyday Australians. The Voice was comprehensively defeated last year, yet one Labor government after another has brazenly ignored the vote and embarked on some version or other of that racist concept. Climate change and environmental dogma is destroying industry and agriculture, the mainstays of our economy. Energy prices and soaring inflation have crippled small businesses, as immigration on steroids has driven up basic costs, including housing. Laughably, at the same time that the Albanese government pours a billion dollars into quantum computing, the makers of Mars bars admit that they may pull out of Australia due to burdensome wages and energy costs. It would appear we can’t make a bog-standard chocolate bar yet we fantasise we can reinvent the world of quantum physics and computing. What a farce. What hubris.

What a folly it has been, with Labor’s ridiculous and wasteful ‘Future Made in Australia’ fantasies, while at the same time trying to isolate the most incompetent of Labor’s ministers. Not an easy task!

Not to mention the pernicious effect of ‘queer theory’, and how the concepts of bestiality and paedophilia would end up being taught to impressionable and vulnerable young minds by radical activists in our schools. Even the ABC felt obliged to report on the horror story of the South Australian school responsible.

Meanwhile, the freak show that is the ‘pro-Palestinian’ coalition of Millennial misfits continues.

It is no longer hyperbole to say that Australia is changing rapidly and changing for the worse. How much damage will be inflicted upon this country by the worst federal government in our history would probably be beyond even a quantum computer to calculate.

Author: The Spectator Australia