I'm sick and tired of violence and mindless bubblegum. I'm sick and tired of the banal brutality of my own culture. The only real outlets I can think of are classical music and Australian aboriginal art. Nothing much else can calm the heart or soothe the soul. Just about everything else gives off a negative vibration. If you don't agree, take a look around an art gallery that has a collection of Australian aboriginal art, compare the sense that it gives you with the violence and pointless ugliness of modern "art". Fair enough, the ancients had a clue, but we don't. The ancient Greeks and Egyptians knew what beauty was, unlike the Romans who have been the role model for Hitler and Stalin and Bush and the rest. I remember strolling through the British Museum and seeing all that beauty from Greece and Egypt and East Asia and then moving on to the Vic and Albert and realising that modern civilisation is just so much junk. When people find remnants from ancient Greece and Egypt and medieval Europe, they can see the beauty of those objects. What will they say about our objects? What is the beauty of our television sets, our box architecture, our Ikea furniture? If only all out war could be declared on ugliness and beauty in the world could be restored. If only it were always worth getting up in the morning. If only everyone felt that they belonged somewhere and people of the world no longer felt alienated from each other.