Class and Refinement - the Downward Spiral in Australia

Australia celebrates the Bogan.

Australia promotes the celebration of unrefined, scuffing, thong-wearing, sleave-sniffing scruffs.

Australia ignores, ridicules, and denigrates the stylish, the well-adorned, the polite, the chivalrous, and the erudite, the educated, the rational, the intellectual.

Australians are taught directly or indirectly to mock and dismiss the sophisticated of dress, bearing, education and speech.

In Australia, it is risky to speak with a vocabulary of more than two dozen words in general day-to-day life. Pithy cliches and formulaic copy-cat phrases benal and simplified, uncontroversial and void of intellectual difficulty, are acceptable and expected. Anything beyond this is suspicious, rejected and prejudiced against.

Respect and admiration is reserved for ignorance, casual dress, standard commentary and beliefs.

Because of that, Australia is plummeting toward classlessness and unrefinement.

The original drivers are those founding Australian principles of aversion to authority, separation from Royalty and the overlord rebellion against the old Empire, with the Queen as its poster-girl.

Australians are proud of their history of flipping the bird to ponsy English rulers and ponsy English class systems.

It is therefore understandable.

However, it is to the detriment of progress and the development of civilisation beyond the cave-man status we all escaped so long ago and at such ernormous cost.

A return to peasantry is inevitable.

A classless unrefined society is not a good one.

It will entail the rise in power of the idiot across politics and industry. We will become that Bogan nation in the world.

Science and philosophy will join style and chivalry in being further sidelined and ridiculed into submission and dismissal. And this will create a domino effect on the detriment of the wellbeing of our nation.

Less money and attention will be given to scientific and philosophical discovery and practical application to make more room for the development of Middle Ages thinking, exemplified by witch-hunting, book-burning and all the other horrors that accompany peasant-rule.

Be warned.

But there is an anti-dote: we're not completely stuffed just yet.

Those in Australia still sporting the refined life must act and act quickly, with courage and vim.

Lead by example.

Protest.

Use your careers, your conversations, your contacts, any means available to knock Bogannism off the podium in your  own circle your own niche in life and stand in its place as a last beacon of hope.

Wear a suit, quote philosophers, expand your vocabulary in all conversations, demand intellectual discussion when arguing. Reject formulaic cliches in your responses to daily life conversations.

Hold your head high and with the courage of Perseus, proudly show the world the severed head of the Gorgon Bogan in your hand, as you command attention and respect to all that is refined in the world.

Here is your Bogan god's head. Severed by my sword of refinement from the Gorgon's body you proclaim so loudly and proudly to worship.