3 hours ago, rjay said:

If only you were right, but those times are long gone.

 

There will be some re adjustment but then ego & greed will take over.

After the Spanish flu,  WW1 and Polio,  people were very community oriented.  These things are great levellers.

And with borders to remain shut to O/S for some time,  and import export to be much slowed...  and the real possibiliyty of war breaking out, I PreDict we will start heading back into

"being & buying Australian".

3 hours ago, rjay said:

I don't mean the players either, I'm talking local club Presidents and committees....

The SANFL may get away with it this year but players will move on next year for a pay packet.

I wonder if your selling Australians short.?

Bigger pay-packets might not be available,  for smaller leagues and association's.

1 hour ago, MyFavouriteMartian said:

After the Spanish flu,  WW1 and Polio,  people were very community oriented.  These things are great levellers.

And with borders to remain shut to O/S for some time,  and import export to be much slowed...  and the real possibiliyty of war breaking out, I PreDict we will start heading back into

"being & buying Australian".

I wonder if your selling Australians short.?

Bigger pay-packets might not be available,  for smaller leagues and association's.

Different world now...our culture is a lot more self centred and selfish than it was in 1918.

1 hour ago, rjay said:

Different world now...our culture is a lot more self centred and selfish than it was in 1918.

Why,  do you think this has occurred 'rj'?

 

1 hour ago, MyFavouriteMartian said:

Why,  do you think this has occurred 'rj'?

 

Might be a book in that one 'Martian'...

I'm part of a boomer generation that is partly maybe majorly responsible for it.

The kids that followed have learnt from a pretty selfish bunch.

We've been lucky to not be involved in world wars and major downturns.

Maybe the cold war had a different impact.

Go for it, you might not be here tomorrow.

The rise of American culture and it's self help, narcissism.

The internet and the BS attached.

So many things, just throwing out thoughts from the top of my head.

...but we're not the same as the people of 1918.

Just look at how so many were out and about crowding shopping centres yesterday.

It was all about them and screw everyone else.

2 hours ago, rjay said:

Might be a book in that one 'Martian'...

I'm part of a boomer generation that is partly maybe majorly responsible for it.

The kids that followed have learnt from a pretty selfish bunch.

We've been lucky to not be involved in world wars and major downturns.

Maybe the cold war had a different impact.

Go for it, you might not be here tomorrow.

The rise of American culture and it's self help, narcissism.

The internet and the BS attached.

So many things, just throwing out thoughts from the top of my head.

...but we're not the same as the people of 1918.

Just look at how so many were out and about crowding shopping centres yesterday.

It was all about them and screw everyone else.

I am also of the boomer generation.  but suffered a lot in younger years from bullying and becoming a doormat.

With this,  I do not have this want to be better than everyone else,  but rather,  the best  i can do.  Maybe,  this is a part of community mindedness. the notion that we cannot survive without one another...  hence the team... concept.

My parents were not the most confident people,  but were warm and friendly to all.  An empathetic way of being.   My uncles and aunties were not of the, I'm just so good brigade.

 

So,  I guess I am a product of this inbuilt genetics,  to some degree.  Kindness to a fault,  to the vulnerable and down trodden.  Cynical of the wannabees.

 

I think struggle in early life is a very good character building way of life.  Teaching some very good lessons, in forming the persons character.  

Having things too easy growing up, IMO,  breeds a contemptuous style in many.

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# I see a comparison in all of this,  in the Mfc in some ways,  and the wider perception of us,  as a club.

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