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Deconstructing Australia’s Social Contract Ontology:

The origin and evolution of Australia’s rule-based order Ray Gibbons April 2021

(PDF) Deconstructing Australia's Social Contract Ontology: The origin and evolution of Australia's rule-based order (researchgate.net)

... exploitation, displacive dispossession for economic advantage, and racism, motivations that drive us towards 20 a belief in the pursuit of power, ideological supremacy, and self-interest, where destructive emotions and preconceptions, like acquisitiveness and antagonism to otherness, too often filter our perception of reality rather than rational values of cooperation and sustainability around which we can establish collective goals. Racism and the lure of stolen land led Anglocentric society to Aboriginal dispossession and, if they resisted, Lemkinian extermination. Environmental destruction followed. We live with both today. Aboriginal people still suffer, as does our entire Australian ecosystem. There is little public urgency to heal the wounds, to correct the wrongs. ‘Why them and not me’, we say. The dominant phenotypic expression of a displacive Anglo-culture was Lemkinian genocide and ecocide, systemic comorbidities of a cancerous society, expressed as pathological antagonism towards other races and species for which survivors of the targeted race can show transgenerational health effects, and there is reducing biodiversity for our found environment. Racism and predatory over-exploitation are each the product of an invasive, swarming, dispossessory culture with little insight into its destructive behaviour, driven by the tragedy of the commons towards unsustainability and racial intolerance. Our unstable rule-based order gives rise to an unwieldy, often contradictory social contract and, through structural inadequacies and impending stressors such as global warming, may, from a lack of societal resilience, lead to its collapse, unable to adapt,,,,