How to somehow function when I hate everything about Australian culture due to social alienation and not wanting to bow down at all?

[Isaac98]

Admittedly, there's so much for me to hate here and its even worse when I can't leave for a long time due to being so dependent on my parents.. I'm 22, but I'm not very functional and I very rarely work since I'm in a job with my step-dad who I don't get along with well at times (same with my mum). I'm also somewhat autistic ("highly" functioning) and that anxiety and depression (non-suicidal) affect me, but my main issue is that I want almost nothing to do with nearly anything Australian due to how much I hate this place and most of them for complying with a subjectively bad system.

But yeah, what I hate about this country and its culture is its authoritarianism (gun laws; coronavirus regulation, beaucracies everywhere, signs warning fines punishment everywhere, so many victimless crimes etc), being treated like convicts, anti-intellectualism, tall-poppy syndrome, entitlement, and almost all Australians happily complying to their masters regardless..

Here's an example for authoritarianism, a Tasmanian was seriously arrested for camping out in the middle of nowhere for one night during national Coronavirus lockdowns.. This is how bossy our society is, that would not happen in libertarian parts of America I want to go to.

Being treated like convicts, minorities including myself not being able to have any say in politics due to it being democratic (only cares about majorities) and that our police don't care for oppressed minorities such as gun owners; male domestic violence victims, drug users etc. They only care about helping the state strip their rights due to being legal.

Anti-intellectualism, most of us think we should "just comply" with coronavirus regulations regardless of others' situations and that most Australians are so fearful of less gun control with SO MUCH arrogance.

Tall-Poppy syndrome, being so arrogant about America everytime they talk about that country despite not knowing much about it and thinking we're the best country when we have so many flaws.

Entitlement, most of us forcing others to be like us to have a "right" to safety.

Compliance, a word you cannot disagree with without harsh criticism from our culture. If something's illegal, our society automatically thinks its taboo.. Even women wanting to defend themselves with tasers.

However.. I don't know how to change my bitterness with Australia when my real self is taboo and that I don't feel very cared for by the system, I can't even find a single friend aside from a neighbour.

[Isaac98]

Actually, I forgot to mention that I have online friends but not any friends aside from a neighbour who's a slight father figure rather and that I may be able to move to the US in at least a year if an American friend successfully starts up a gun business which he wants me to be involved in. It'd be great, but its a long way away.

[Isaac98]

Sorry I was stupid on this thread everyone. I unfortunately fell for gun nut extremism at the time because of heavily isolating myself after Year 11 and 12 in school being traumatic (2016 to 17). I got taken advantage of by right wing extremists on social media who made content that was targeted towards vulnerable people.

Thankfully, I got out of that extremism in 2021 and that I never had access to weapons.

[therising]

Hi Isaac98

I'm happy for you, in regard to you finding your way instead of someone else's way. I hope this different path you've chosen is giving you a greater sense of who you are. I hope it's offering to you the answers and direction you're looking for beyond the ways in which you've suffered in the past, especially at school. 

While I imagine you have incredible abilities (such as the ability to imagine, the ability to open your mind while exploring possibilities, ideas and beliefs, the ability to feel and so much more), there are definitely people out there who rely on being able to tap into those abilities so as to gain an advantage. If someone can access another's brilliant imagination, access and open mind in order to open it further, access another's ability to feel, they can change so much. To take advantage in such a way is self serving. My heart goes out to you with you having come across such self serving people who serve their own agenda. I hope you come to develop your abilities in ways that are going to serve you and the greater good. Don't stop imagining, don't stop opening your mind to things, don't stop feeling just because others once took advantage. Don't close yourself off to your abilities, instead master them.