“Firefighters Bash Their Partners”
By NZB3
Crossing the Tasman for a moment, there’s a useful reading to be taken as to where we are on the dial of Moral Culture. The four Moral Cultures are: Honour Culture, Dignity Culture, Victimhood Culture, and Slave Culture. Which Culture is in charge, which is rising, which is falling? Here’s some indication.. A domestic violence […]
Read more..November 14, 2019
“Share a Coke with Whānau”
By NZB3
A really big part of Statism is the corrupted forms of things that are good and true. Dental Health is good, so it’s corrupted into an excuse for bossing people around. Maori identity is good, so it’s corrupted into “Māori” or what VJM calls Brown Communism. Here we have a manifestation of both of these […]
Read more..November 13, 2019
1918: Influenza Memorials
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Why are there no public memorials to the 1918 influenza epidemic? Except, so far as I know, for the Nurses’ Chapel in Christchurch which counted them in with the rest, it is very rare. My answer is that we build monuments to Honour and not to Victimhood. A fallen warrior or worker (eg miner) is […]
Read more..November 12, 2019
Is It Time For An Asian Quota In The All Blacks?
By VJM
Japanese player Daisuke Ohata is history’s top international rugby union try scorer, proving that being Asian is no hindrance to rugby excellence By the time of the 2019 Rugby World Cup, over 1,000 men had represented the All Blacks throughout history. Although the All Blacks are famous for being a successful multicultural operation, not a […]
Read more..November 11, 2019
2010s: Baby Boomer Self-Entitlement
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Rob Rattenbury, or “Rats” as he calls himself, is getting a bit defensive in his latest Baby Boomer Entitlement Press Release. The Boomers. They burned the world down, spent up what their fathers had given them and then went on to spend against the wealth of the unborn children and grandchildren. They refuse to die […]
Read more..November 11, 2019
The Three Dominance Hierarchies
By VJM
The hierarchy of iron is characterised by big muscles; the hierarchy of silver is characterised by flash suits A lot of discussion in social psychology revolves around the idea of the dominance hierarchy. This refers to the fact that humans, as a form of primate, have social dominance hierarchies like other primates (and other mammals). […]
Read more..November 10, 2019
1918: Ratana Fever
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s daughter was nearly named ‘Eight’ in Maori to mark this day in history and what it represents to Ratana Church, the Labour Party’s ally. Today in history: 8th November; The Maori version of the Labour Party came into being, coinciding with Wiremu Ratana entering the delirious stage of his influenza fever […]
Read more..November 8, 2019
Understanding The Boomer Meme
By VJM
A man on the wrong side of male menopause bears a slack, satisfied grin, a can of Monster energy drink in his hand. Despite a beer belly and signs of pattern baldness, all is well in this man’s world. This is the Boomer, and this essay explains his significance in the Clown World Pantheon. The […]
Read more..November 7, 2019
1859: Northport
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Saltwater Creek, nought but a ‘locality’ now. It was to be Northport, the main town and port for North Canterbury. But among other things, the flood 150 years ago simply ruined the place. Nothing much going on there now but a stretch of beauty at high tide. The initial opening was 22 October, 1859. However, […]
Read more..November 7, 2019
1967: The Heretic
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 6 November, 1966, Professor Lloyd Geering, Principle of Knox Theological Hall, was tried on the charge of heresy and doctrinal error by his church. Geering, in 1966/7 had become a wolf among the flock and dropped some theology bombs from within. The Presbyterian brass was not impressed! In 1966, […]
Read more..November 5, 2019
The Great Libertarian Purity Test
By Gekko
“I’m a libertarian but I’m not an anarchist – we need to have some govt for …” This is something I see often and which has recently taken on a more confrontational form that might be termed ideological anti-puritanism whereby those who stick to libertarian principles are castigated as Utopian purists. The criticism can take […]
Read more..November 5, 2019
Clown World Chronicles: Who is Wojak?
By VJM
A simply-drawn MS Paint image of an expressionless man is one of the commonest memes seen today. Some know him as Feels Guy, but to most Internet denizens he is called Wojak. As this essay will show, Wojak and his many incarnations are a core part of the Clown World pantheon. To many who see […]
Read more..November 2, 2019
