About White Guilt And The Golden Cage Called Australia
Featuring Konstantin Kisin: A brave writer that deserves all our support
I stopped writing recently and paused all paid subscriptions indefinitely.
One main reason is time. I don’t feel comfortable taking money and not delivering regularly. Pay by article would work better for me than subscription but Substack is not supporting that.
The other main reason is that quite a few writers are much better at saying what I want to say - especially on social and political topics.
I think it is more effective to implement much-needed change to support and promote these people who already have tens of thousands of subscribers than to split the effort.
I haven’t found any writers yet who can match me on my favourite weird topics of free will and non-dual spirituality, but I wrote enough about these topics, and any additions would feel repetitive. My archives are available for free for anyone interested in these topics.
Despite reading Substack for over a year, I am still amazed and excited to discover new great writers who express my thoughts and feelings so well. It is never 100%, but between them, I feel covered and see no more need to add to it.
Today I discovered Konstantin Krisin. I have only read two of his articles, and I like both very much. I usually cross-post, but it seems he disabled that option, so I do it this way:
The first one stands out for its common-sense approach to racism and the ongoing attempt to make white people feel guilty simply for being white. Of course, there was and still is systematic racism in white societies. But there is systematic racism in non-white societies as well, and I share a dramatic personal experience below.
Systematic racism, or any racism for that matter, has nothing to do with the colour of our skin. I was once exposed to extreme racism by a Maori activist group in New Zealand. Four of them visited my home uninvited and threatened - in front of my little children - to burn my house down if I didn’t stop talking to the press and continue to run my business “in their land”. They also told me “to return to where I came from”.
My crime? Trying to run a tourist business near a national park while these activists occupied land in protest. I had no issue with their protest, mainly due to mismanagement by the National Park bureaucracy. For weeks, local friendly Maori protesters who had known me for years used my shuttle service to travel to the protest site and back home.
Unfortunately, as it happens so often, genuine grassroots movements of locals are hijacked by so-called professional radical protesters. These people don’t look for social change—they are full of aggression and look for a fight—very much like the radical woke people nowadays.
The word woke wasn’t invented then, but then NZ Prime Minister Jenny Shipley acted very woke, fearing a threat to “social cohesion” if she would stop these activists from their anarchic and unlawful behaviour.
She willingly sacrificed the small local tourist industry to bankruptcy (the majority of them being Maori themselves) to “keep the peace” by not challenging the unlawful behaviour of a small group of radicals that deliberately cleared the area of tourists for years to come. She literally ordered the police to stay away from the area, as a very frustrated, ashamed police officer told me when I tried to make a complaint.
We tourist operators then went to the political opposition parties and media asking for government compensation with no success. Instead, I - as one of the few white and foreign people in that group - was singled out for racial abuse and serious threats that caused my then-wife to take the children and move away, which was the final nail in an already failing marriage.
For about five years, we were nothing but welcomed and supported by the local Maoris—lovely people and a wonderful culture from which I learned a lot. My oldest son, who was about three years old, went to the local Maori kindergarten (Kohanga Reo) and spoke Maori better than English at the time.
After we lost my business and most of our money, we had to deal for years with the emotional and psychological scars of this episode in my life; it was mainly Maori people in a different part of NZ that healed the wounds.
I am telling this story to illustrate one fact: Racism has nothing to do with the colour of our skin. It has everything to do with the mindset of a person - no matter what colour, race, or ethical background.
Currently, woke, neo-Marxist, deeply flawed people are weaponising skin colour, and the below article is an excellent case of that.
The second article by Kisin deals with the current situation in Australia, which he reads quite accurately. This is no easy task for someone not living here, and it shows his astute observation skills and intelligence.
I think he really nailed it when he wrote:
This is the good news: as things stand, Australia’s biggest challenge is not extremism, it is apathy born of comfort. Life here is good and the differences to the rest of the Anglosphere are remarkable.
But this apathy worries me a lot, especially in the younger generation.
I also don’t fully agree with his assessment of Australia’s immigration policies. While I get his point, and we don’t want a situation like in Germany, Britain or the USA - I also don’t feel comfortable that hundreds, if not thousands, of illegal boat people, are kept for years - if not more than a decade - prisoners on remote island camps. None of them were convicted of a crime.
It is shrugged off as collateral damage and used to scare people off. And it seems to work. I don’t have any solutions, but human rights are important to me, and there must be a better solution than this shameful and heartless situation.
This brings me to the concerning point he totally missed about Australia: the massive red tape and overwhelmingly powerful bureaucracy. He also missed that not much changed in the psychology of the people from the day the first ship of convicts arrived here: The Australian population, psychologically speaking, is still very much divided into two groups: prisoners and prison guards.
Only the names and means have changed. The prison guards are called bureaucrats, and the prisoners are most of the Australian population.
The means of imprisonment have also changed. Instead of direct orders and gaols, prisoners are kept in line through controlled consumerism and red tape. That’s at least how I observe things compared to the two other countries I have lived in previously.
Australia is the most amazing country I have ever lived in, and life is truly so much better than the rest of the world. I really shouldn’t complain and get in line with the other Australians. Red tape and overwhelmingly powerful bureaucracy are just the price you must pay to live here, and so far, I am willing to pay it.
But such a system is in grave danger and very well-equipped to slide into a totalitarian control state - as the Covid pandemic reminded us so powerfully.
Let’s not forget.
It wasn’t communist totalitarian China that had the longest and harshest lockdowns on the planet, with nightly curfews and the army on the streets enforcing them. It was the seemingly democratic state of Australia that very quickly and willingly surrendered to the bureaucratic totalitarian rule. Did that wake up some prisoners in the golden cage? Time will tell.
It is very comforting to me that I have several passports and can leave paradise if things turn radical again. I hope I never have to. I enjoy every day in this great country with its great people (I am talking about my fellow prisoners) as if it were my last. That works for me.
I hope you enjoy Kisin's articles
“The second article by Kisin deals with the current situation in Australia, which he reads quite accurately. This is no easy task for someone not living here, and it shows his astute observation skills and intelligence.”
There are, of course, other possible explanations for Kisin’s extraordinary insight. One of which you accidentally stumbled on; intelligence. If I may offer a friendly word of caution; before staking your own credibility on this operator, you might be advised to do some due diligence. If you’re at all familiar with how intelligence works, his background and rise to prominence might raise some interesting questions.