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Melissa Lucashenko must be the only Australian author to have won both the country’s top literary award and a mainstream TV quiz show.

Aboriginality has declined, is declining, and will continue to decline until, eventually, over generations to come, it will become barely detectible. Accordingly, apropos the Voice, compartmentalising Australia into indigenous and non-indigenous populations is farcical and awarding exclusive land rights to those of distinctly mixed and jumbled heritage absurd

Who is eligible for reparations if the Voice carries the day? Do we accept self-identification and endorse the claims of fauxborigine Bruce Pascoe and other main-chancers whose Aboriginal bloodlines are vestigal or altogether non-existent? Are we contemplating DNA testing to determine who gets how much? This is a future to be contemplated with a shudder

This book is about civilisation’s discontents, those who have idealised people outside of civilisation, imagining they lead happy, fulfilling lives at peace with one another and in harmony with the world around them. For most of this time, romanticising this ‘other’ constituted one strand in the thick rope of Western thought and reflection and knowledge

For 3000 years, civilisation’s discontents have ideal­ised the non-civilised, imagining an existence of happy and tranquil fulfillment in har­mony with the natural world. During most of this time, romanticis­ing the other constituted but one strand in the thick rope of Western thought. Today, however, what was once a single filament has become the whole rope