reFLAG

[andrewducker]

reFLAG is a campaign to add a little more colour to the Union Flag in order to make it more suited to our multicultural society.



Thoughts?

Comments

[protempore.livejournal.com]

No sarcasm, here, I honestly think that flags should just be bar-coded and left at that. I've never understood or been comfortable with all the silly general symbolism. As if you can represent all the people in a country or a country with these images. Just barcode it and let the flag be an impersonal identifying label so each person can represent themself and, in turn, represent the country for whatever it is today.

[aberbotimue.livejournal.com]

would you take the same belife into football strips??

I'm not a football person, but it seems that the strip is offtern followed in the same way some follow the flag??

[protempore.livejournal.com]

Good point. I think it would make for an interesting game, as it would be hard to tell one team from another with barcodes all being so similar . . . I might actually become a fan, if that were to happen.

But, I don't think I'd be so much for it as I am for making national ensigns barcoded -- the reason is that the flag of a nation is supposed to represent the nationa -- a diverse collection of people and places with different goals and ideals working together. Sports teams, on the other hand, are groups of individuals working toward the same goal; the uniform is not so much to represent them as it is to identify team mates from opponants. The uniforms serve a more particular purpose, but a notably less significant one, on a larger scale. Make states/territories barcoded, too. Bar code license plates -- you want to know where the guy in front of you is from? Just trigger the barcode reader embedded in your car's grill; or, hell, why not put a reader in your watch?