"Hatred of the good for being the good, is the hallmark of the twentieth century. This is the enemy you are facing." - Ayn Rand.

@reefrebels

4 ай бұрын

A lot of truth in those words

Cook was an explorer. He was eaten by cannibals 9 years before the First Fleet left Britain. His involvement in the colonisation of Australia was literally zero.

@thegeneralist7527

4 ай бұрын

The myth of the noble savage. Most stone age societies have some ritual or practical tradition of cannibalism,, which must be appreciated in a cultural and evolutionary context. The taboo on cannibalism is a sign of advanced civilization., and has different cultural and evolutionary advantages.

@c6q3a24

4 ай бұрын

​@@thegeneralist7527 Absolutely. Even modern day Christians practice a ritualised version of cannibalism and human sacrifice - the eucharist - eating the flesh, and drinking the blood, of Jesus Christ.

People talk about Captain Cook discovering the east of Australia, but in 1770 Cook was a Lieutenant in the British navy. Cook is regarded as the greatest map maker of all time. His map of Newfoundland considered perfect was comfirmed by satelite photography in the 1970s. Cheers

@reefrebels

4 ай бұрын

That’s great information confirming the marvels of Cook

VOLTAIRE - “If they can make you believe absurdities, they can make you commit atrocities”. Cook was not only the world’s greatest navigator and cartographer, he was perhaps the greatest example of moral integrity. He treated all people with equal respect and dignity and lived a life we can only dream of. Those that cut his statue down have been fed a diet of lies and are too lazy to do the work and find out the truth. They thrive on absurdities and are happy to commit atrocities.

Thank you Dr Ridd for re-enlightening us to the true history that seems to be sanitised and adjusted to suit agenda on an annual basis. Cheers.

Those that know not of history are doomed to repeat it.

William Buckleys was a member of a group under seige at one point by a competing marauding tribe. Hiding amongst a bunch of boulders on the coast without food till the other group finally gave up the hunt. No utopia there, or the rule of law.

@reefrebels

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for that bit of interesting history

Sadly so much of the idiocy in the world today is actually deliberate political sabotage. Keep speaking out good doctor.

@reefrebels

4 ай бұрын

Well it definitely is deliberate political sabotage. And censorship . Our content is finding it so difficult to go out to the masses

In the words of Jack Nicolson, why can't we all just get along?

Traditional owner's of Australia live in absolute harmony with nature and each other.... Just go to Alice Springs, Katherine or Gove on a Friday night, prepare for you're mind to be blown.

@reefrebels

4 ай бұрын

There are evidence of waves of aboriginal invaders that wiped out an entire race

@crouchingwombathiddenquoll5641

4 ай бұрын

@@reefrebels I just finished reading the biography of William Buckley. An escaped convict, lived among the Aboriginal people of Victoria for 30 years. Describes in detail the inter tribal conflicts, violence and infanticide. An eye opener.

@planesounds

4 ай бұрын

@crouchingwombathiddenquoll5641. Many will not want to get your point. in Queensland a similar situation is common in the town of Cherbourg. The different mobs only seek tribal harmony until the Government aid has been shared out. Then the redistribution can commence.

Great video ! The western world indeed has much to be proud of. The Enlightenment was a massive leap forward for humanity. It is important to not throw the baby out with the bath water.

@reefrebels

4 ай бұрын

Thanks and we need to send this message out more to the masses

I am a professional archaeologist and yes, the field is super woke. I avoid all conferences, talks, and other archaeologists for that reason.

Knocking down a statue which is an inanimate object can only be a symbolic gesture. One thing you can never do is change history. You can only learn from it. Destroying can never be condoned.

"When Cook set sail in 1768 on his first voyage of discovery aboard Endeavour he held the rank of lieutenant. Soon after his return to England in 1771 he was promoted to the rank of commander. He never actually held the rank of captain, but in 1775 was promoted to the higher rank of post-captain. Any person in charge of a ship is known as its captain, and so it was quite natural to refer to him as Captain Cook." Was Captain Cook really eaten by cannibals? "No - the Hawaiian Islanders who killed Captain Cook were not cannibals. They believed that the power of a man was in his bones, so they cooked part of Cook's body to enable the bones to be easily removed. It was the cooking of his body which gave rise to the rumour of cannibalism." Source: Captain Cook Society website

@reefrebels

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing this

A person who worked on Mornington Island said a visiting Indian academic recognised Indian words in the language. I thought the claim did not past the sniff test, but maybe there is something in the Indian man's observation back in the 1970s. I heard Cook ordered lashings. They were harsh times with enlightenment struggling to peek through. Gratitude for where Australia is today, and the many benefits of modern life on offer, is the starting point for studying the evolution of how we got here. A strength of western culture, self critique, has been distorted to self hate without weighing all in the balance.

@reefrebels

3 ай бұрын

interesting point!

@Fomites

2 ай бұрын

I have often thought that various Aboriginal languages sounded just like some Indian languages (I'm referring to the overall sound or music of the languages as a speaker of neither).

Cook's statue in Gisborne New Zealand had also been removed.

I think our ancestors just might have brought some diseases with them but far more importantly they brought an incredibly superior form of medicine and medical care. Then there was writing and reading. I love the book Cry The Beloved Country, Alan Paton did wonders to destroy the old racist South Africa and he did it without condemning either black or white people, he simply showed how we are all human and all being hurt by the evil around us. Time to ditch the activists and get on with living the good life as Australians.

@reefrebels

4 ай бұрын

Well said

I have come across words used by aboriginals that are identical to words used in Indigenous Tribal India. There was mutual contact. One can even see the facial features and colourations and body language as the same. (The older darker India peoples).

@reefrebels

4 ай бұрын

Anthropology is so fascinating and you shared some very interesting points

The Americanisation of Australian politics has led to major stupidity and ignorance. They see the claims of Colombus and try to push that onto Cook, even though he had no involvement whatsoever in colonisation (that would be Jospeh Banks who is conveniently left out of this conversation).

@reefrebels

4 ай бұрын

Yes. Australia pretty follows suit everything from America , doesn’t it

Yes, They are originally from India

@reefrebels

4 ай бұрын

As the dna suggests

@JOSEPHDANCE75

4 ай бұрын

I noticed i worded it wrong so thanks for the correction @@reefrebels

@kathysangel56

2 ай бұрын

Yes look at the Bradshaw paintings,look at the headdresses and costumes,there dravidians,they came to Australia and invaded Australia, pigmys and negorites were the first on this land ,but there was a more superior race who were Egyptians, mummy found, artifacts in the Sydney museum,other colonies found in Australia,

We still have the captain cook birthplace museum in Middlesbrough north east England. He’s held in high regard by the people due to his discoveries.

Cook's statue was taken down by protesters on Canada day in Victoria BC while police watched.

Captain Cook was the Elon Musk of his time. First British ship Captain and worldwide navigator who used the chronometer to circumnavigate sailing around the world, that single handedly spawned the British Empire that the sun eventually never set on.

A video explaining the history of Australia's first aboriginals would be most welcome.

@reefrebels

4 ай бұрын

Yes we will be working on that , please support us by subscribing to our channel and notifications!

The peoples of what we now call the continent of Australia are a bit of a mixed mob genetically. I wasn't aware of the DNA ties with Bharat (India), but some recent studies show DNA originating from the PNG region. The PNG DNA lines seam to be spread across the central North and Norther west. There is also anecdotal evidence of the small people or pygmy people of the far north QLD (Not arguing as original inhabitants) that may have possibly migrated from PNG. Pygmy is just a common name for small or short so these could also have been Aboriginals naturally short and cast out of other mobs for being small or weak. Fighting amongst themselves and clashing with other mobs is well documented in Aboriginal culture. It's not uncommon to "kick" people out of the mob. > The continent now know as Australia was far from isolated. Many of the south Asia islands had strong coastal fishing cultures and were well know for there seamanship and navigation abilities. So I find it difficult to believe there was no migration. > New Holland mapped by the Dutch, and more. Australia was in the sights of many northern nations including nations from Asia so this continent had zero chance of remaining isolated from the influence of other nations. I know of no part in the world where this spreading of cultural influence has not occurred either via peaceful exchange or via hostility. European migration and settlement in Australia was extremely peaceful by historical context. > Abel Tasman and James cook were seafarers, scientist, navigators and map makers. They were proficient at what they did for their time period. The very fact that I have come from a part of the world that has had strong cultural exchanges both peaceful and non peaceful means that I have knowledge and tools that my ancestors may have not otherwise acquired. I have an advanced computer system in front of me instead of bark and Ochre :) Yay for that. My ancestors had sticks and rocks to draw on. > The world has moved on and we no longer attempt to assert cultural influence on other regions/nations... No wait, this is still happening to this day.

@reefrebels

4 ай бұрын

Exactly right , its still happening to this day isnt it

@axle.australian.patriot

4 ай бұрын

@@reefrebels I don't condone violation, but historically and to this day it seams to be a common human trait at both the personal level and at the geopolitical level. We only have to look at some of the current geopolitical tensions. It's not like these tensions are new, it's more of a continuation of that same historical context. It's great to have ideals as guide stones or lighthouses with which to navigate, but the real journey is the ship being tossed around in the turmoil of life. Some days it's calm, others it's pretty rough. I think some get too caught up in the rough seas and forget about the lighthouses (Life philosophies), and then other loose focus on the journey, and get too caught up in the lighthouse (ideals, what we often see in protest rallies and incidents like the statue). It's all a bigger picture and balancing act between what we are and what we aspire to be. > P.S. Good to see you (P. Ridd?) back on line after the wizzy wind.

@reefrebels

4 ай бұрын

Thanks yes Dr Ridd is back in action and currently travelling to Canberra after meetings in Melbourne

Most Abo's attack each other so are hypocrites

Ridd, I love you. But I have to be fair. Aborigines discovered Australia, not cook. There were people when Cook arrived.

@sevenidols607

4 ай бұрын

To be clear, I still support you vigorously. I hate decolonizing ideology. I'm just being fair here. I am worried about the censorship bill. I hope they don't pass it.

@planesounds

4 ай бұрын

@sevenidols607, Pedantically you are correct but the widespread mobs did not map or record or share their knowledge of the country. They did not go back to their origins to share their new found areas. Lieutenant Cook mapped and shared his knowledge of the areas that he mapped, including New Zealand, and with the massive collections of the flora taken by Joseph Banks, it gave a big step for knowledge of a previously unrecorded country.

@reefrebels

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the support and we encourage your point of view which makes for a balanced discussion. I dont think Dr Ridd is claiming Cook discovered Australia over the aboriginals . From a patriotic angle , Dr Ridd is stating the advantages Cook brought to the people, and also instead of thinking Cook as the invader , there were already warfare within the aboriginals

@planesounds

4 ай бұрын

@@reefrebels It could be said, that in this context, no-one has discovered anything as it already exists or existed. But by the same token, it can be said that nothing exists until it has been quantifiably recorded and the knowledge shared. What is worth reading is the PHD work by MH Fells “I succeeded once” about the settlement of the Port Phillip Bay area from 1839 to 1840. In that work it is discussed what the different tribes of the region thought about their neighbouring tribes. Also an account of what by any metric could be called a “genocide” committed by one tribe against another. In the book “The End of Silence”, the surveying and building of the Overland telegraph from Adelaide to Darwin, in 1872, there is an interesting recording of encounters with tribes in what is now the Northern Territory where tribes attempted to get the work teams to join forces against the tribes neighbours. My grandfather had many of his early years on the western Darling Downs in the late 1890s and early 1900s. As such he had direct interaction with a local tribe. He was gifted some items including woomeras, spears, nulla nullas and shields. One shield has spear damage on it. I contend that a shield would not have usually been needed by a member of a tribe when simply hunting for local game. The book “Palmer River Gold” gives some interesting points concerning the contacts with the aboriginal tribes in from Cooktown during the gold rush periods of the 1880s. These accounts have, as one would expect, been “debunked” by contemporary tribal elders. There is much that specific elements in the public eye today do not wish to have discussed in an open forum.

wait until you read about what Captain Cook did to those native women! ooooh boy I love a good love story!!!

Hey doc, you’re out of your depth. Best to stick to coral reef research. You can never justify genocide through colonialism.

@reefrebels

4 ай бұрын

In 1940 anthropologists Norman Tindale and Joseph Birdsell pushed the idea of rainforest Aboriginal people's distinctiveness much further, claiming that they were the remnant of an autochthonous Negrito race that elsewhere on the ustralian mainland had been displaced by later waves of Aboriginal invaders.

@williwonti

4 ай бұрын

Genocide not done through colonialism A OK , I suppose

@planesounds

4 ай бұрын

@grinnerwolff1, Leave the genocide to the tribes themselves. Many of the mobs tried hard to wipe out their neighbours. There was much effort put in by the Colonial Government to break the tribal traditions of animosity. Those tribal animosities continue to this day.

@bonoff3369

4 ай бұрын

Colonisation is the best thing that could happen to a country. The English still have an advantage over the Scottish because they were colonised by the Romans. Colonisation took us from cannabalism and slavery to the best country in the world. As an Australian you are better off than 90 % of the world population. What did the colonisation ever do for us, well the schools,hospitals, law and order, houses, electricity, I phones the list is endless.

@e4eleanor2816

4 ай бұрын

😂​@@bonoff3369