During my several decades in Tasmania I found that many homegrown white Tasmanians are, compared to the white folk to our north, an inferior species whose lifelong preferred psychological habitat is ignorance rooted in cowardice topped with multiple layers of reinforced incuriousness.

This is seasoned with occasional mighty dollops of perfect incompetence such as recently revealed in the current two ships fiasco.

I believe that this island’s physical isolation from the mainland, and the advances yonder, is largely responsible for the mammoth societal handicaps here. There are historical reasons too, of course, that have blighted Tasmanian white settlement from the very beginning.

But perennial ignorance can have dreadful consequences.

For example, many Tasmanians have insufficient knowledge to discharge society’s essential functions properly, thereby producing cascades of errors such as those still plaguing Tasmania’s workforce. This ongoing disaster has produced workers, administrators, and a general culture among Tasmanians that:

If you don’t blab about my mistakes, I won’t blab about yours!

This toxic blight occurs in every facet and level of society

Tasmanians’ often very poor levels of so-called professionalism is a perennial pestilence which, way too often, produces deadly results, hence the “Don’t Blab” rule to keep undeserved salaries ongoing. It’s all very hush-hush, of course.

We know that general statewide ignorance can also seem like low intelligence, and white Tasmanians certainly have the nation’s lowest. Ignorance however, may be vanquished by knowledge, knowledge which is secured by the application of intelligence, and so as intelligence rises, ignorance falls.

But what has ever been done to advance Tasmanians’ IQ levels?

The current inexcusable shipping fiasco here is a classic example of enriched Tasmanian boofheadedness liberally sprinkled with toxic flakes of pure stupidity.

Because our politicians are drawn from the ranks of Tasmanians’ ignorant, we have no substantial right to expect them to be any better. In this primeval state where thinking is severely frowned upon, have many ever been?

The current lot of Liberal no-hopers still in office here, due to the popular ignorance and low IQs referred to above, illustrate this common failing quite well. Australia most sensibly chucked out all Liberal parties at the last federal election – all except those in Tasmania.

Crikey, what a dreadfully backward mob we are down here!

Compare this abysmal Neanderthalic attitude with wonderfully progressive Canberra where the Liberals have just been hung out to dry for the seventh consecutive time!

With the majority of Tasmanians being ignorant, and with their congenitally dormant reasoning processes never fully kindled by anything, their minds, what there is of them, can easily be manipulated by Murdoch’s political propaganda machine and cunning swine-bastards from elsewhere.

They tell these plebs what they want in order to extract the value of as many as many of this state’s natural assets as they can, and also part of the productivity rewards earned by its workforce, while deceitfully presenting their wicked plans as being potentially beneficial to the state itself – while never really giving a hoot about the state or its people, only themselves. Their standard view – that dopes and dimwits deserve to be exploited – is an attitude typical of capitalists worldwide.

The owners of American corporations do the same to other countries worldwide as they invade, destroy and kill, to control, and to set about eliminating by overwhelming force, anyone and anything in their way.

To make this tolerable to some of this world’s incredibly naïve populations, and, like the obviously useless UN itself, America increasingly uses blatantly complicit, and now quite wicked proxies like Israel, and especially its homicidal maniac, Captain Smirk, to do this dirty work for it while all the time its aim, and of course that of Israel’s political right-wing slaughterers running the whole evil show, is the total  annihilation of Palestinians, and everything in Palestine, in order to seize the Palestinians’ lawfully secured land by force, including its splendid land and sea bases, from which to wage America’s worldwide specialty since WW II, namely it’s innumerable wars – and its characteristically malicious generation of them for limitless profit.

And so many Australian politicians, those portable conscience-free zones which are brazenly complicit in all this wickedness, continuously pander, grovel, genuflect, dribble and slobber while sucking up to Israel’s industrial scale slaughter of innocents. Those politicians’ having the deplorable attitude of ..

If you can’t beat them – join them!

This reveals an absolutely reckless and treacherous denial of Christian duty.

The incredible inferiority of many Tasmanians is clearly evident in the manic obsession of so many mindless football addicts to build a brand new football oval instead of applying that billion dollars of workforce earnings to the state’s largest hospital continuously falling apart at the seams through government neglect while it’s moronic Liberal politicians, unable to think logically, seek popularity over responsibility. Is that not criminal negligence?

And so Tasmanian society remains bogged down, for generation after generation, while very little changes for the better – with perhaps the main consequence being that hardly anyone, anywhere, tries to help remedy this any more.

Some disillusioned new settlers just leave – if they can. For others – alas, it’s too late. With their funds eventually depleted they sadly realise that they are trapped in a time warp.

Is this uniquely Tasmanian situation really so hopeless? It surely seems so!

 

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