Let The Ancients Speak

 


What makes this era feel especially mad is the mismatch. The weapons are industrial and precise; the politics are still honour, fear, and faction. People far from the front can watch it in high definition and still have almost no say. That gap—between how cheap it is to see the wreckage and how hard it is to stop the machine—is a lot of the nausea.I don’t have a tidy moral formula that dissolves all three at once. The least dishonest stance is to treat each as a specific failure of off-ramps, not as a single morality play, and to notice how often “we had no choice” is the story told after the choice was already made.
Adapted from a conversation with Grok.


The parasites fled into the rotting buildings at the outskirts of the abandoned village. We were here and you are where you are. There was nowhere for them to hide. The internet, those ancient eyes, had recorded everything. 

They were so naive, so impoverished, and so spectacularly unintelligent, these humans they had been sent to observe; like doppelgangers they mixed and adopted the organics, all, as Poor Old Alex was concerned, for unknown reasons.

What destiny was this? What purpose? Why did they fly so high? Why could they see so far? Why were they so insistent these jobs had to be done, this destiny fulfilled?

Australia was being crushed by a malfeascent crew, shockingly out-of-touch grifters scoring points off the wicked, surrounded by acolytes, entirely unappreciative of the working poor, the wage slaves whose taxes they lived off.

It was a dire state in human evolution, before cybernetic and genetic enhancement became the norm, before selective breeding bred a so-called super-race, before the robots outnumbered them, before they thought, so naive, so naive again, that their lives had purpose, that they mattered.

Like ants before a shockwave, they scurried into their buildings for protection. Their greatest enemy was their own government. It had all happened before. And nobody heeded not just the warnings of the ancients, the prophets, the messiahs, those who could hear, they ignored not just the humans who delivered this message, but all of us down through the ages.

NEWS

The Albanese Labor government has faced intensifying political pressure in recent weeks, particularly from the surging One Nation party after it seized a traditionally safe Labor seat in the Secret Harbour by-election in Western Australia with a massive swing. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese responded by labelling hard-right populists “dangerous, divisive and downright dishonest” in a speech to Labor’s Queensland conference, prompting One Nation leader Pauline Hanson to accuse him of crossing a line and inciting violence against her. Polling has reflected the strain, with Albanese recording his lowest approval ratings as prime minister and a net satisfaction score of minus 21 in one survey, as critics from the opposition and minor parties portray his government as out of touch and contributing to voter alienation. 

theguardian.com

Economic policy has drawn sharp attacks, with the government’s May budget tax changes—including alterations to negative gearing and capital gains tax—widely condemned as broken election promises that punish hardworking Australians and small businesses. Opposition Leader Angus Taylor and others have described the measures as “toxic taxes” that raise personal income and capital taxes to historic highs, while Albanese’s attempts to defend them on television led to accusations of being a liar and out of touch. Falling house prices have created an additional headache, as voters who long complained about unaffordability now worry about lost wealth, and a controversial GST revenue deal favouring Western Australia has been criticised as unfair to other states. 

thenightly.com.au

Migration policy has descended into visible disarray after reports that Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke planned to cut the refugee intake from 20,000 to 13,750 places, only for Albanese to overrule the decision amid internal Labor unrest and public backlash. The episode, announced partly via text message rather than through proper cabinet processes, fuelled claims of chaos and undermined the minister, with critics arguing the government is reacting opportunistically to One Nation’s rise rather than setting a coherent course. Left-leaning voices called any contemplated cut cruel populism, while the right continued to press for tighter overall immigration controls to ease housing and infrastructure pressures. 

theguardian.com

Environmental groups have assailed the government’s newly announced 2035 climate target as far too weak and an “affront” that prioritises fossil fuel interests over Pacific and Australian communities facing worsening climate impacts. Greenpeace described Labor’s climate credibility as hanging by a thread after the target followed the approval of a major fossil fuel project extension and delayed release of a grim climate assessment. Combined with earlier gaffes and rising security threats against politicians, these criticisms have painted a picture of a government struggling to maintain cohesion and public trust heading into the latter part of its term. 

greenpeace.org.au


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