Invasion Day and the future

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In Australia, the day that the first British settlers arrived, Jan 26, has been a public holiday since the 1940s. Since about the same time, there have also been protests by the aboriginal groups, who call it “Invasion Day”. Much like Columbus Day in America.

The settlement of the new world, including Australia as part of that, is 250-300 years old for the most part. 12. That’s outside of the three-generation limit of living memory by quite a bit.

Why does the settlement of the new world need to be celebrated? It’s no different than Hitler celebrating the conquest of Eastern Europe if he’d won the war. 

The focus should be on settling Mars.

Governments create these holidays and celebrations to push nationalism.  Citizens struck by nationalism are less likely to revolt.  It is also celebrated as some sort of public mandate or a mandate from whatever ridiculous gods or fairies they believe in.