14. TURNING LEFT AND GOING WOKE

Following on from the LGPTIQ acknowledgements and the elevation of this and other groups, it’s important to add that in the last decade this has not been in any way a singular term or change by Australia, in social and institutional terms, this country has taken a significant turn to the left in political extremes and social preferences.

We have also become a country that is almost the “Wokest“ country in the world. We followed on from the American trends in that regard.

While some countries are now retreating slightly from woke extremes, in Australia, they are becoming more ingrained and indelible than ever. Our society is becoming very hard to recognise because of the “splintering“ of social and economic fabric based on group preferences.

These changes are becoming very embedded within the school curriculum and also are being evermore loudly exposed expose by universities.

Where this is all going to end I do not know for the country is on a track that is almost spiralling in a directionless context. Everyone wants to be leading us in all sorts of directions and that is certainly a fragment of pragmatic perspective. It’s true to say that people both young and old are often confused by the lack of clarity that is now a part of our society. And that is leading to an epidemic of mental issues.