What is ‘Accelerationism’?
By VJM
Following the Christchurch mosque shootings, and the study of shooter Branton Tarrant’s manifesto, many people have found themselves newly aware of something called accelerationism. Understanding the political landscape of the coming years demands that we understand this political philosophy and the reasoning behind it. This essay explains. The key to understanding accelerationism is understanding the […]
Read more..March 23, 2019
Honour Culture
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Moral Cultures Theory is an ethnographical tool to help make a bit of sense out of human history. Risky business: Stereotyping individuals and peoples. So, you need to remember you’re doing it and to use the tool wisely. Better to have a rude filtering tool though than to have to look at the full radioactive blast […]
Read more..March 23, 2019
Generation Z
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
I’ve been reflecting a bit about poor old Generation Z in New Zealand. As the years go by the bookends for this latest generation come into clarity and I think we can now put a figure on it the way we have for The Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials¹. A mainsteam of Slave Culture, for […]
Read more..March 23, 2019
1990s: Rave Culture
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This makes my job easy… “..the Prodigy, they didn’t conform…they were, I’ve called them, the Sex Pistols of the Rave Culture.”- DJ, Edward Adoo Keith Flint self-terminated earlier this month, frontman for the band Prodigy. Rave Culture peaked in the mid-1990s and it was, indeed, simply the latest iteration of one of the on-going history […]
Read more..March 22, 2019
The Anti-Individuality in r-Selected Cultures
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This is consistent with the r-selected outlook if you think about it…. ‘Ludicrous’: Calls for plants to be given legal rightsWhat western academics busy themselves with, at taxpayer expense: “Researchers at the University of Sydney have conducted a study into allowing flora and fauna the same legal rights as humans.”¹ The taxpayer-funded research, Multispecies justice, […]
Read more..March 22, 2019
He Who Must Not Be Named
By NZB3
There’s this primeval, superstitious drive in down-regulated humans where they mistake speech and thought for manifest reality. Sympathetic magic. Homeopathy. Voodoo. Lucky charms. They think that by not saying the true name of “You-Know-Who” or “He Who Must Not Be Named” that Voldemort will let them alone. (Such people belong to HC and VC cultures, […]
Read more..March 22, 2019
Post-Massacre Backlash
By NZB3
Read this yesterday. After Columbine… “The adult reaction was frenzy and fear utterly disproportionate to the actual risks faced by teenagers, whose world, statistically, is much safer than it was three, two, or (especially) one decade earlier. In high schools across America, the months after Columbine were marked by false alarms, SWAT drills, stern speeches, […]
Read more..March 21, 2019
NZ On Screen will be suspending its use of advertising on Facebook
By NZB3
I take it that ‘lacks concern’ is your euphemism for Facebook not employing top-down control on its customers to control their content. They’re not going on a banning or censoring spree? Complex social problems can be solved by trusting the public to think for themselves and make the right choices. We can use reason […]
Read more..March 21, 2019
The Case For Cannabis: Christchurch Massacre
By NZB3
Part 60 in our ∞-part series about the arguments for cannabis law reform. This article is an unofficial insert to The Case For Cannabis Law Reform, compiled by Vince McLeod and due for release by VJM Publishing in the summer of 2018/19. I’m trying to think up a way to blame the shooting on cannabis prohibition, so […]
Read more..March 21, 2019
The Hidden Evil Behind Racism
By Gekko
There is a well known saying, “never look a gift horse in the mouth”, meaning that it’s unwise to pass up an unexpected opportunity when it presents itself. A more obviously self-serving formulation of the sentiment from the corridors of power might be cast as “never let a good crisis go to waste”. And so […]
Read more..March 21, 2019
Racism
By NZB3
Old Vince asks lots of interesting focusing questions on Facebook. Tell you a secret about me, any time someone asks an open question like ‘can you identify this old picture’ or ‘what was this old tool for’ or ‘why did she do that?’ it triggers me into answering. Doesn’t have to be me though, I’m […]
Read more..March 21, 2019
The Basics of VPN Use, And Why Every Kiwi Needs to Know Them
By VJM
The aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shooting showed that the New Zealand Government is willing to give away all of our freedoms in its blind panic to clamp down on everything. We Kiwis are going to have to learn how to fight Internet censorship and how to share information despite a Government committed to banning […]
Read more..March 21, 2019
