I am feeling unseasonably unhappy this afternoon having been required to fill in the Australian census form.
What a series of impertinent questions! How dare they enquire how much time I spent last week doing house work? Or looking after children? Or about the ethnic origins of my parents? Or about which languages we choose to speak at home? Let alone about my religious beliefs.[1]
Unhappily, the only plausible explanation for this questioning is a governmental desire increasingly to interfere in my life, and in the lives of other people. The number of census questions, and their intrusions into our privacy, seem to grow every time.[2] Fuck off!
Governments do useful things in terms of protecting the nation from invasion and fixing the roads. They have no legitimate business enquiring as to people’s private affairs. I have remarked before, and will remark again, government is a parasite on the tree of human well-being and this census information is just another synthetic fertiliser for that parasite.
They say they want to use census data connect local families through play, learning and friendship. As it happens, I do not want the government to tell me how to play, what to learn, or who to be friends with. Even less do I want them to dictate these matters to a younger generation, who are already much too much in thrall to totalitarianism.
Yuk!
[1] This is just about the only question which one is lawfully entitled to ignore.
[2] This is by no means an exclusively Australian problem. It is a worldwide problem.
phenell 
Very amusing