Backyard History
Dec. 18th, 2005 04:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bliumchikI haven't made an entry about the riots. Well, I don't know much about it, really. Just that there's an inordinate amount of police around lately.
But then I stopped to think. "The riots". I mean, we're all so blase about it. But it's not exactly a part of everyday life. I mean... I mean, they roadblocked Cronulla. Isn't that the teensiest bit exciting? And isn't it fascinating to think that in fifty years this will be a boring detail in somebody's Australian History class... or maybe, in the context of things yet to come, it will be an event everybody knows about, and there will be documentaries about it, and my nieces and nephews will say "Aunt Maggie, where were you when the Sydney Riots happened?". Certainly it will be an event in books yet unwritten. Any piece of fiction set in this time will needs mention it, because it's a part of the setting now. Isn't that freaky?
We certainly live in interesting times.
But then I stopped to think. "The riots". I mean, we're all so blase about it. But it's not exactly a part of everyday life. I mean... I mean, they roadblocked Cronulla. Isn't that the teensiest bit exciting? And isn't it fascinating to think that in fifty years this will be a boring detail in somebody's Australian History class... or maybe, in the context of things yet to come, it will be an event everybody knows about, and there will be documentaries about it, and my nieces and nephews will say "Aunt Maggie, where were you when the Sydney Riots happened?". Certainly it will be an event in books yet unwritten. Any piece of fiction set in this time will needs mention it, because it's a part of the setting now. Isn't that freaky?
We certainly live in interesting times.
