Double Adaptor has put into perspective the facts of geological time and therefore the triviality of our various ownership claims.

Here are some maths:

Ayers Rock / Uluru is 500,000,000 years old.

The maximum amount of time that aboriginals coold have been in central Australia is 40,000 years. People had stuck to the coast so it is probably a lot less than that.

500,000,000 ÷ by 40,000 years = 12,500

12,500 as a percentage of 500 million is 0.8%

So the Rock had been there for 99.2% of geological time before the aborigines showed up and began making up fantasies about it.

A fraction further along, after 99.95% of its existence, whites showed up and described it’s geological history scientifically.

Of its two competing histories, one is true and one is bullshit.

But ascribing to and acting in a gentle and passive way on the true rather than to the bullshit can land you a savage $6000 fine. This is imposed by paternalistic white lawmakers who are racistly convinced that the aborigines are so fragile and child-like they can’t cope with anyone else not believing in their tales.

Up until relatively recent times it used to be a live and let live situation. Ie, you believe what you want to believe and the rest of us can be happy with what the empirical - ie, the demonstrated facts, say. Like the way gravity keeps us rooted to the ground. Or the facts of the Earth’s formation. Minor things like that.

When I said that sometimes you can feel “stateless” I had Ayers Rock / Uluru NP in mind. Supposedly that NP is “World Heritage”, ie, it belongs to the whole world. Yet is run by a handful of religious nuts. The park has a vast welter of movement restrictions backed up by savage white sanctions for those disagreeing with them on the basis of demonstrated facts. Transgress off a marked trail to better explore a geology you find stunning and fascinating? – that’ll be $6000 bucks mate.

The walk through The Valley of the Winds at The Olgas / Katatjuta for example, which I have done, goes right through the heart of the domes. It is one of the most stunning, even humbling experiences a human can have. You are reminded of the “Deep Time” that Double Adaptor pointed to.

Well that particular walk had been ripped from the collective human experience. We aren’t allowed to even glimpse it now because a lineage has been there for 0.8% of its geological history while others have only been there for .05%.

Doulbe Adaptor makes the same point of this absurdity.

This is happening all over Australia. In the Grampians. Mount Warning. I read recently of a spectacular look out near Alice Springs that has given people the gift of wonder for over 200 years, is now closed. Our national parks are turning into theocracies for Christ’s sake.

Can you name other countries ruled by religious nuts backed up by savage penalties? I can.

Voice or no voice, this is happening to us. It is intolerant and disrespectful to our collective humanity. I say bring back live and let live.