I’m Ohio-born and was lucky enough to grow-up in Australia…
Don’t get me wrong there, incredibly evil shit was just as real here as anywhere else although in Australia there was a little less pressure to conform than there was in America back in the day as long as you had both the balls to stand your ground and the brains to know when to do so without needing to shoot someone to do it, essentially it was a matter of knowing precisely where and also how you asserted yourself within the wide intellectual culture, wags might say vacuum, that the Irish and Australian Aborigine gave to the national psyche…
