• HaSch
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    3 years ago

    Hmm, I have to remove one of the parts of the Australian flag to make space for hammer-and-sickle iconography. Should I discard the symbol of colonial and neocolonial repression, of the coexistence of miserable poverty and preposterous wealth, and of continuous resistance against social progress, that has been haunting billions for centuries; and keep the stars, universal sources of comfort and inspiration, observable by anyone but possessable by none, faraway and foreign worlds driving both fantasy and endeavour since the very dawn of humankind? I think I have a better idea…