tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post5244669776279088989..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Once More, with Pictureszmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-31339984441718247312012-01-26T00:32:19.961+01:002012-01-26T00:32:19.961+01:00There is absolutely not a shred of doubt that awfu...There is absolutely not a shred of doubt that awful cruelties and violence were meted out to the indigenous people of Australia. The question that interests me though, since I was given a collection of Australian war writing edited by Mark Dapin that opens with a passage from Watkin Tench's 1788, is whether what happened can really be classified as a war rather than an unthinking, greedy muddle growing out of an unquestioned belief in European superiority.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-19790838603961210732012-01-25T14:52:11.669+01:002012-01-25T14:52:11.669+01:00As you know, I think, I am a Gutenberg lover. Some...As you know, I think, I am a Gutenberg lover. Some time ago - years it was - I was reading an account based in Central Queensland of an English immigrant's coming to the area and the relations with local Aboriginals. It was quite disturbing but I lost the reference to the book and couldn't find it again. <br /><br />Just last night, I typed 'Queensland' into the title field and several historical accounts came up. It was very easy reading the online versions to pick up many stories of relations between blacks and whites, and some of it was pretty confronting.<br /><br />I'm not sure where this is heading except that it bears out Henry Reynolds' research into newspapers of the time and how they casually reported some truths simply because their substance was not particularly a moral issue. They were reporting things as they were.<br /><br />So it appears that many plaques and memorials seem to do a similar thing, until we put ourselves in the places of those they are about, and those who placed them there.Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-84723146667012773022012-01-20T22:32:09.636+01:002012-01-20T22:32:09.636+01:00The most exciting thing at our local church is the...The most exciting thing at our local church is the transvestite who takes the collectionzmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-6902500012037344692012-01-20T02:34:36.988+01:002012-01-20T02:34:36.988+01:00American churches tend to be newer than that, and ...American churches tend to be newer than that, and have less in the way of memorials to browse. But in Denver, I once noticed a plaque in St. Elizabeth of Hungary, remembering a priest shot down at the altar ca. 1910; no mention of what it was all about, but at least the cause of death was clearer than the Rev. Richard Hill's.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com