1927: Daylight Saving
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The so-called “Waste of Daylight”. Who will “Save” it? “Sunshine destroys germs and raises the vitality” “..of one of his book keepers, “a capable fellow” who had been “wasting away” with an undiagnosed illness: “Poor fellow his life has been lived without sunshine. We buried him five months later” Ridiculous emotive non-arguments. If you want […]
Read more..September 30, 2019
The Political Struggle of Our Time is Globalism vs. Nationalism
By VJM
A recent United Nations gathering saw the two new political extremes face off against each other. These extremes represent the two competing sides in the great struggle of our time, which is not royalty versus the nobles and neither is it the capitalists versus the workers. The struggle of our time is globalism versus nationalism. […]
Read more..September 27, 2019
1974: Busting Sutch
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 27 September 1974, the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) swooped on retired public servant Bill Sutch and took him in to custody. Sutch was charged with spying on New Zealand for the Soviets. Moments before, Sutch had been meeting with diplomat and KGB agent Dimitri Razgovorov seen here (above) fleeing the scene […]
Read more..September 27, 2019
2008: Join the Resistance
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
2008: Kiwibank adversing struck its chord framing the bank as heroic underdog taking back the country from foreign invaders using trench coats, fedora hats, and Morse code. It was a sort of re-imagined French Resistance. “We” were winning, “we” are taking control of our own interrogation. 2019: Ten years on Kiwibank’s big advertisement has been […]
Read more..September 26, 2019
Weapons of Mass Psychological Destruction
By VJM
The phrase “Weapons of Mass Destruction” evokes a special horror, with thoughts of Hiroshima and the incineration of a hundred thousand people in a matter of heartbeats. The geopolitics of today have made the use of such weapons impossible, but this only affects the physical realm. In the psychological realm, weapons of mass destruction are […]
Read more..September 25, 2019
VC ↓, HC ↑
By NZB3
The Theory of Moral Cultures (TMC) is premised on 4 Moral Cultures that each take their turn in the seat of power. The entire cycle takes about 20 years so each Turning is about 5 years apart. At any given time, then, two of the Cultures are in decline two are rising. This might be simplistic […]
Read more..September 25, 2019
Slave Culture
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
We’ve all known people whose dominant Moral Culture is Slave Culture (SC.) At various times we’ve all probably had to do things to get by that are picked from the SC quadrant. Aesop was a slave, allowing him to record for history the stories of Slave Culture Classical Greece. Aesop’s Fables reads to me as […]
Read more..September 24, 2019
Understanding The Coomer Meme
By VJM
A new meme has swept across cyberspace in recent weeks. Called the Coomer, it depicts a balding social reject with bloodshot eyes and a massively outsized right arm. This essay explains how the Coomer meme came to prominence, and what it means. Ever more frequently, we are hearing reports of people being alarmed about Internet […]
Read more..September 23, 2019
The Ethics of Emergencies
By NZB3
I’m all about Objectivism. However, one serious point of departure I have with philosopher Ayn Rand springs from her essay ‘The Ethics of Emergencies.’ For example, one might say “The right to free-speech is universal…” (so far so good)….”unless there’s some emergency!” (doh!) It’s as if when the going gets tough, Objectivism calls it a […]
Read more..September 23, 2019
How To Raise Your Children To Be Abusers
By NZB3
I think it’s a fair generalisation to say that no one goes out of their way to try to raise an abusive adult. Yet it happens. More often than people would like to admit. We hear parents of domestic abusers lamenting that they did all they could. I believe them. We parent to our best […]
Read more..September 22, 2019
Civilisation Is An Act of Alchemy
By VJM
The art of alchemy is the art of transmuting base elements into precious ones. On the personal level, a successful alchemist will transmute their own baser nature into something that is in tune with God. As above, so below: such a process also occurs on the collective level. Civilisation itself is an act of alchemy. […]
Read more..September 22, 2019
The Sixth Labour Government Kicks The Kiwi Working Class In The Guts – Again
By VJM
Any last hope that the Sixth Labour Government was still working on behalf of the New Zealand working class was dashed earlier this week by the announcement of new working visa rules. “Up to 30,000 businesses across the country will benefit” from Labour’s latest kick to the guts of the marginal workforce. This essay explains. […]
Read more..September 20, 2019
