Trainride through Timelessness

I could say that from my first trip to Alice Springs, in '71, at about 16 years old, I had ideas of a railway line 'up-the-guts' of this Sacred Land - Australia.

But for about twenty-years-at-least, and after four trips to the Centre, two to Darwin - one on my Yammie 650, in about 1998, and one in a small Holden wagon for the 1999-2000 New Year, etc., with a trip from Alice to Adelaide in the famous "Ghan", I've yearned for the nation to wake-up to the logic and eventual advantages of a rail line from north to south, a la Darwin to Adelaide.

Once when I wuz "langering" (?) in the caravan park north of Port Augusta, watching the kilometre-long-plus container-trains creeping, slipping, nudging and eventually sliding north or north-west across the vastness, to Perth or Alice (Darwin's end wasn't a reality then), I has a "Vision" if-you-like, about the containers being set-up as two-storeys of high-class but MOBILE hotel rooms, with the most Beautiful variation of HUGE scenes through either floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides of the "Rooms", or on outdoor "patios". Restaurants and bars, nightclubs and even gardens could easily be developed and maintained in parts of the train. Whatever...

I reckon the possibilities are endless in "design-concepts-on-rails", for one-or-six-week-long journeys through and around the "Timeless Land", equipped-of-course, with the necessary attendants, services and facilities.

I expect I can safely assume the recipients of this e-ssay have been "Out There" to our glorious deserts, and watched a freight-train dissappear into the sandy scrublands.................., seen colour-filled sunrises and sunsets across those wide horizons "......so flat they look round".

If a train was designed in the mobile Hotel format, I lay-odds there would be a market overseas for the filthy rich to enjoy at a ve-ery leisurely pace, that gentle meander across the spectacular floral and geological variations Australia has in it's Heartlands.

Personally, I have a 'thing', a really BIG thing, against almost everything about tourorrism as I call it, for it's rapacious, short-term, shallow-as-fuck 'culture'.

But, this is one reason why I offer this proposal to your government Authorities. I'm an internationalist, I guess, meaning that "everyone must be welcome everywhere".

However, rather than just focusing on the profit-motive as why one 'gets into tourism', Australia has a Duty to Humanity to "give them a clue!", at least the overseas visitors who come here in some wonder about where they really want to live.

Some come in awe and respect, some just lust. The latter are the pricks I aim these arrows at.............

Most tourorrists from overseas are fairly weathly. In this material realm, there's nothing wrong with that. Many no doubt, are "Workers" who come here for all of the above awe etc, like the rich, and may be, may be, are a little more respectful of Australia as it is, for whatever reasons. If only because they haven't been spellbond by any exhorbitant, and-likely-unethically-acquired inheritance, which seem to make the young trippers from Richy-Rich's college smell of superiority complexes REAL BAD.

Now what's the Adel-win railway got to do with that?

If Australia belongs to any Human group, it is first, the Aborigines. But being a 'native', as-in born here, and considering the global crisis of mal-distribution of Human Beings, we surely must be entering the Age of what may Most Properly be called "Free Land" Globally, an age where a majority of "Empowered" Souls found the Truth in a concomitant "Factual Period", with Proper Knowledge on such simple systems of accountability as Land Rent for Government Revenue - worldwide, and rose against the spreading tyranny of predator-materialism.

This suggests changes of Huge proportions. The Idea, Rings with Beauty once grasped in mind, even just partially. Many rich and poor folk-alike are struck by the rapidity of change these last ten decades-four generations has seen, and are left worryng about the world they have as-good-as created for their own progeny, their own beloved grandkids etc.

Many are feeling a 'void' in their Soul, all things considered.

As I wrote earlier, I "rail" against the 'attitude' which too-often comes from the wealthy trippers to Australia from the upper-classes of Britain and Europe, as much as they come from the same classes of almost every nation today. They are all corrupt. Except Australia, of course...........?

Well........, once-upon-a-while-ago, before the white trippers came here, there existed an Attitude-Wise-A amongst the Aborigine, from Tassie to T.I. From Rottnest Island to Byron Bubbles.

In the venacular a Black Fella calls it, "Talking True".

Last time I was in Alice, I was Privileged to drive a "Full-Blood" Aboriginal Man across Alice Springs, when I wuz a cabbie there. Boy! Often seems a waste of time talking to anyone else since then. I learnt that Full-Blood Aborigines still Lived the Law, and just did not lie.

This, once-upon-a-while-ago, wuz how all Australians Lived. True.

Travelling widely, as those Noble Nomads were prone-to, Dad, Mum, heaps-o'-kids, babes, Granny, Granny, Granny, Granny, Grandpa, Grandpa, Grandpa AND THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS!, would "Do-The-Nomad" into other Aboriginal nations, whereupon, over a short hundred thousand years-or-two, they Established Traditions about EVERYTHING they did (seems-to-me), but when they'd meet other Tribes, there'd be certain Rituals and Customs gone through, in paying their Respects to the "Owners" "Guardians" of the patch they were walkin'-about...in.

The Home-dune Mob would similarly offer their Welcome (or NOT!) to the Nomads, and then they'd all settle-down to a right-old Knees-up, for days-at-a-time, I believe.

This sort of "Passing-Wave" the Ancients gave each other, is the very opposite of today's western cult of travel-to-check-out-the-Land-prices, smile as-you-rip-them-off, and say you've made some "REALLY GOOD FRIENDS" you "met outside the real estate agency".

I've never seen any real Aboriginal Welcome Ceremony, but I think they're a little bit Deeper than that. In the Depth, they do, I put-it, actually Commune with each other, in the Fullest Possible Sense.

I reckon that it is in the Ceremonies where they 'move' closer to each other's Soul, thus come to the right Attitude to Share between each other.

These Emanate out to the material world, expressed in things like Law. "Lore" is another term, and "The Dreaming" also fits I think.

Living the Law, is Being the Law. Living True is what Humanity has lost, in large part, and in Australia, being way-out there in the deserts, it's easy to Live thus. "Black Fella's been doin' it forever!"

As Humanity lerches forward to global meltdown, Hope needs-must exist in such places, for they are farthest from the chaos.

For this, and for the Due Respect the Aborigines of this Island-continent Deserve, means that this Land, and it's Guardian Peoples, should be given the Greatest Respect from all immigrants and visitors.

I, being Maxtreme, ambit that the yobbo tourorists be made to go through a "SHUT-THE-FUCK-UP!" Course on entering Australia, where they are held in detention until they can meditate without thinking ONE thought!!!!!!!

And for these little teenies, we could give them a week-long trip through the outback, in a nice rail-tel, RAMMED, 24-7, 1000 WATTS with Black-Aussie Rappers "Givin'-it-them!", er, with all manner of media on the trains for them to gain a Better insight into "WHAT THE FUCK THEY ACTUALLY ARE, George, Yokim, Johannes, Jarques, Vlad.

Hmmmm, got a little possessed there....

Australian Aborigines, their Land, their Culture and much else about them, deserve the Highest Respect from all others. Firstly from other Australians.

Secondly from those I label tourorrists.

To them I say, "Welcome! But get some Attitude Dudes!" You're living in a brain-blitzing environment, culture, in Britain and Europe, if you're wealthy.

Don't treat Australians or our real estate with the blithe disrespect so common to the egotripping rich-kids.

Also I say, Come through the timeless door, from Darwin into the Heart of the Land, and dwell out there for a time to get the feel of the outback, and of the reality of you and it and Abo's and Chinese and Aliens.

Naturally I will go so far as to suggest opportunities to stop out there for a month, two, could be included in the trainride into understanding Australia, it's Guardians Wisdom, and something about Human Beings, in this new century and-on into the future, and how to cruise through the Universe no-fuss.

Economic Science should be fundamental to Political Science, and would become recognised as such, if I wuz boss, and today can be translated across to all Cultures, Aborigine and Eurocrat-alike.

Its becoming clear to more people today that much of the culture which sends these latest real estate tourorrists over here, is BAD CULTURE, because it is at the top-of-the-tree in matters of incredible inheritances from not-so-ancient 'colonialist days', and the thus-assumed right to keep plundering whomever can be smiled into losing their Homelands, no regard to the cost to the environment in their prefered machinery of travel; airplanes, and usually no regard to the negative effects their desires exact upon the traveled-through places.

As the world tussles with "Going Green", Australia, the real estate heaven of the planet, is potentially the most progressive nation on Earth, in several important ways - Economically, politically, religiously, and Personally, has through such "Fortuitous" mechanisms as the Darwin-Alice-Adelaide Railway the chance to Welcome International travellers and Aussies-alike with a Beautiful Lesson in Respect.

"On the Train..........."

Hyuk! Crystal Dreaming, I think they call it?

...........may be continued......