J.D

“The Ouroboros teaches us that growth and transformation come from embracing our own darkness and integrating it into our being.”
― Carl Jung

“Class in most places is about making the differences visible," say novelist Richard Flanagan, who grew up in a working-class mining community before receiving a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. "Class in Australia is about making the differences invisible".”
― Lech Blaine, Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power

“You are
What you do
When it counts"
- The Masao”
― John Steakley, Armor

“It all changed," he says. "The miners in Ipswich joined a union and voted Labor. But young ones coming through didn't think of themselves as working class. They moved to the Sunny Coast. Four-bedroom house. Couple of cars. Most of them became anti-union! Dumb fucks thought they got paid 200k just because they're good at their jobs. Nothin' to do with my generation and my dad's generation, and the sacrifices we made by going on strike”
― Lech Blaine, Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power