2020: Millennial Fetal Contentment
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Heroic Generation archetypes thrive in structured environments; They love having clear rules laid out so they can follow them. Instructions are to be followed without questions and with clear consequences. They thrive on duties and obligations, rewards and punishments and countdown timers. They are stressed by environments requiring them to be self-starting independent individuals. Heroic […]
Read more..December 30, 2021
“Fuck White Supremacy”
By NZB3
It’s always got to be anti-women’s-violence or anti-gender-based-violence or anti-child-violence. Why can’t we just be anti-violence? The implication is that identitarian categories that don’t have International Days of Activism named after them are OK to do violence upon. “Yesterday in Parliament, we all wore orange to raise awareness of the 16 days of worldwide activism […]
Read more..December 29, 2021
1853: Oamaru Ferry Theory
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Oamaru had been a wasteland until Hugh Robison and his brother built and lived in a muster’s raupo/flax/sod hut in 1853. Here they created a sheep station called the Oamaru Run. The North Otago settlement became a thriving town thanks to its port that served pastoralists and the great Otago Gold Rush. By the mid-1880s […]
Read more..December 28, 2021
Don’t Look Up
By NZB3
New release: ‘Don’t Look Up’ now on Netflix. Yes, The Guardian review is right that director Adam McKay goes on a self-indulgent smug Victimhood Culture parade. That probably resonates with a certain set such as the Hollywood cast acting the movie or, one would have thought, The Guardian. Not so much with the old Conformity […]
Read more..December 28, 2021
1917: Even if it takes all the men
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This 1917 Christmas card from is a very important history marker for the New Zealand of that time. It’s a card for a member of the Expeditionary Force sent away to fight in the Great War. Someone “in the fight” who it is hoped God will protect and bring home alive. The woman sender, Molly, […]
Read more..December 26, 2021
Matrix 4
By NZB3
I don’t do spoiler warnings. That was your spoiler warning. The Matrix Resurrections (2021) has just been released which prompts a question as to which way the director would take it. Often the route in these situations is to create a nostalgic mosaic resembling the bottled lightning of the first installment. So many songs and […]
Read more..December 26, 2021
1930: Government Making Our Pants Explode
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
In 1930 New Zealand’s Prime Minister George Forbes visited Britain and met United Kingdom Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald (image left.) But only one of these men had a plan unfolding to cause the trousers of their farming community to spontaneously explode. That was our George. John Deem, Director of the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture in the Forbes Government, […]
Read more..December 24, 2021
Cracker
By NZB3
Professor Jackie Buell of Ohio State University is in hot water for using phrase ‘Jewing Down’ in virtual lecture. Apparently it’s a colloquial term for trying to bargain down the sales price in a retail environment and that was the topic of Buell’s lecture. How dare she implicitly attack Jews that way? But she says […]
Read more..December 23, 2021
1835: The Voyage of the Beagle
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 21 December, 1835, the voyage of the HMS Beagle brought her to New Zealand. Captain Robert FitzRoy is famous to us as our second Governor. ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ was written about the ship’s scientific expedition and the text launched the renown of Charles Darwin. The previous captain of the Beagle […]
Read more..December 21, 2021
It is a kind of death
By NZB3
Most people (even some Libertarians) want to be in the in-group more than anything. The prospects there are good. Access to markets and all that. That in-group has narrowed a fair bit of late. It got Woke. At university we had a paper that taught us about this in terms of R.K.Merton’s theory of anomie. […]
Read more..December 21, 2021
Anomie and COVID
By NZB3
As 2021 comes to the close of another COVID year it’s proper to look back at what has happened to New Zealand society. Readers will know my usual model for considering different archetypal groups and how they interact is the Theory of Moral Cultures (TMC). The four types (Dignity, Victimhood, Slave, and Honor) are created […]
Read more..December 20, 2021
1850: Pilgrims Landing
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history on the morning of 16 December, 1850, the Charlotte Jane arrived at Lyttleton. The first of the 4 New Zealand Company immigrant ships for Canterbury had arrived and would be followed by Sir George Seymour, Randolph, and Cressy. Lyttleton was no more than a little village of some 60 houses […]
Read more..December 16, 2021
