G'day mate.

Really enjoyed your piece on the design for a memorial. I can clap for you now.

Much food for thought. My 2 pieces on a memorial for Covid and the latest mythic reconstruction of a 'Global Britain' or a British Empire version 2.0 do link in with your piece. Your idea for an all-inclusive place of Remembrance no matter creed or religion or any limit to attendence is so obvious that it should not need stating or explaining. But of course it does need not only stating but fighting for. As you know.

It is a Remebrance of the Fallen but it is also a celebration (or should be) of Australia now. My very limited knowledge of current-day Australia sees the country going to the Right politically and becoming more insular and bigoted. Very similar to Britain after Brexit.

On a different note I was so excited to see you mention Gobekli Tepe. I have been aware of its critical importance in the story of humanity since reading the works of Graham Hancock. I am a big fan. It is still an unsolved mystery as to why mankind gave up hunting and gathering to then cultivate crops and eventually livestock and live in communities. The output in calorific value were so much less and the diseases were catastrophic. So something else was at play here. But, as you referenced Gobekli Tepe was a site of great religious significance. I would change religious to spiritual. However Gobekli Tepe may have first been created to repeat or reproduce astronomical events of great significance. The theory is of a meteor strike hitting Earth and the cultural memory being passed down. Stonehenge and The Pyramids and so many many more monuments are linked to cycles and eventsseen in the sky.

Yet now our monuments are linked to death. Death from war and now death from a virus.