''But you didn't say that to management and you only said it quietly to select colleagues and friends because you knew it could harm your career if you were vocal about it.''
oh yes I did.
''But your silence and non push back is an important factor in reinforcing to the impressionable ''
do I seem like the silent type to you???????
I never had a career - and I would never have had a career in this past era - precisely because I wasn't silent
No way would I have gone anywhere. The cultural resistance to what is seen as rebels in Australia is massive.
Why do you think that atrocities in places like the LGH (Launceston) got to go for so so so so so so long???
Because those who did see and rebelled - spoke up - were silenced. They were pushed out.
I tried when I was young - and in the end, I thought - this is too big for me. It's an unwinnable fight.
I had options - mostly they came down to
1. Accept the culture, go to work, take the pay and shut up
2. Spend my life fighting, wearing my self down and for an unwinnable fight
3. Leave - go and live a life that I chose.
results of the choices would have been
1. probably end up on grog, a ground down human slave, with no principles, a life of guilt and anger
2. A life of pain, continually banging ones head against wall after wall, if one were lucky enough to survive - having a face that showed decades of losing battles
3. Live the one life that one has; to do what is in one's heart besides fighting injustice. Go explore, go search, go see the country and see the world - try to find where we are in the 'process' 'why we are' 'where we're going' 'try to explore where our own culture sits among others'
I chose 3. I have zero regrets for choosing 3. I detest what I see in society - but, I'm sorry - whilst I never did and never do and never will accept it - and I sure as hell will never be silent about it ------------- it was just way too big for me to take on.
The 'values' on the wall -------- are pure bull. Frankly - I'd like to see them torn up and put in the bin.
