The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

Nice to see you’ve lost none of your ability to piss off Australia on a massive, generalistic scale. How many countries have chased you out of town now then Rob and are you a record breaker?

does Australia have a reputation for being creative, or is it just that they’re creative about their reputation?

the more i’m away from home, the more i absolutely love my home country, but loathe the small man syndrome that pervades government and business. there’s something to be said for aiming high, but realistically when we’re only just in the second league and acting like we can take on the winners of champions league, it’s pretty fucking embarrassing.

and, i wonder who we inherited this arrogance from – the brits or the yanks.

Lauren … I don’t think this is about being influenced BY the Brits and the Yanks, it’s because of an inherent desire to stand side-by-side WITH the Brits and Yanks.

I am sure this is a byproduct of Australia being so far away from everywhere else in the World … and without doubt, the British influence in Australian modern culture meant there was a desire to allign more with ‘what it knows’ that what it doesn’t … but rather than also embrace and explore the potential of bigger opportunities within its own region, it decided to act like an over-enthusiastic boyfriend and treat the big, old, ugly sisters of the UK and US as it’s “heroes” when in reality, their strength was no longer being built on great values and vision, but lowest common denominator development and bullying.

Asia is slowly becoming the dominant World power again [which is always was except for the last 500 years or so] and if Western countries continue to treat and regard Asia as ‘poor cousins’ then they may one day realise their ’empires’ were built on sand, not stone.

I do think Australia has a creative reputation – and I do think it has been astounding in some areas [and I don’t just mean in ads] but it certainly isn’t achieving the dizzying heights it professes it is – but then you can’t really blame them because most people today live in a World of delusion and illusion, ha!

Great post, but forgive my lack of comment as it hurts when I think… my head is killing; i’m surprised ive even got to work.

Actually, I spent last night helping to paint my future mother in law’s new house.

Just illness, not hangover!

Trust me Seb, you don’t want to know what Bundy is – though given they still are using our strat from 3 years ago, I shouldn’t be too harsh on them and a mate did the ad so I’ll just say its a rum for the sort of bloke that uses Castrol GTX as his aftershave.

And Mr M … what on earth happened???

rob, i know it’s about wanting to play with the brits and the yanks in the playground – i was being a bit cheeky by suggesting that by having british and american cultural and colonial influences, we’ve inherited an arrogance from them about our ‘importance’ in their lives. it’s like we’ve had an affair with the two countries and believed it when they’ve told us that they love us and we meant the world to them, even though we secretly knew we were just a young blond bit on the side with big tits. and now we’ve got a lot of growing up to do.