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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
1954: Mazengarb
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 20 September, 1954, The Mazengarb Report was released. Every home got a copy. It was a State response to kids running rampant. And, they were. A ‘juvenile delinquency’ moral panic crops up in New Zealand periodically. Anarchist History records the first occasion being the Parkhurst Boys of 1842 with repeats every 20 years […]
Read more..September 20, 2019
The Prime Minister’s Process
By NZB3
It’s a Blue Pill Error Code¹. The PM is Neuro-linguistic programming herself at the same time others. Public Servants do the same thing endlessly with their BPEC word: “policy”. “We have a policy…” and “There is a policy…” This is especially said in times of strees, the same way a Christian will crack open their […]
Read more..September 19, 2019
1876: Pembridge House
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Pembridge House (opposite to the clock tower of the University of Auckland) was built in 1876 on the site of the old military base. Back then it was a nice aloof street for wealthy merchants to live at a distance from the regular ruffians. When Auckland expanded they had to find that sanctuary elsewhere! Until […]
Read more..September 19, 2019
1886: Release the Ferret!
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
18 September, 1886: The Department of Internal Affairs and Colonial Secretary granted permission for between 500 and 800 ferrets to be released into Southland. Without The State, who would protect the natural environment from introduced invasive predators? “Shown here is a letter from Angus MacDonald of Gore seeking to liberate the ferrets onto crown land […]
Read more..September 18, 2019
Vegan Storm
By NZB3
Animal Rights activists reminded us this week what a strong voice they are within the r-selected faction of the New Zealand Gene Wars. St Lukes Mall, and Countdown in particular, was assaulted again by a storm of protesters much as they were last month… “Yesterday at lunch St Lukes mall, Auckland, was the target. Not content […]
Read more..September 18, 2019
