Honour Culture Dispute Resolution
By NZB3
You know my secret hack for thinking about personality, history, and culture. If you have not been reading along then here is a quick reminder before we get to the story of the Samoan toilet fight… Honour Culture: Perceive problems as personal and solve them personally. Hands on. Warrior culture. Constant concern for their reputation […]
Read more..July 25, 2019
Phallic Worship
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Why do contemporary Māori give their carvings extraordinary phalluses? Is this a profane over-exposure signal designed to mark visual territory and offend? Is it part of a religious tradition being continued or a recent invention? As mentioned in previous post, tapu taboo actively ensured that Maori artefacts and treasures would not be preserved and passed […]
Read more..July 24, 2019
Why The Left Doesn’t Give A Shit About Drug Law Reform, Gun Rights or Free Speech
By VJM
For many of us in Generation X, it was easy enough to associate the right with authoritarianism. The association was so obvious that it was near enough to a universally held belief for those born between the mid 60s and early 80s. As this essay will describe, the sands have shifted under us, and the […]
Read more..July 24, 2019
My Belief in The Supreme Being
By VJM
In very simple terms, my belief is that the supreme being is one that not only knows all but understands all, as to simply know is not enough. While my belief in the supreme being is somewhat my own thing the closest person that comes to mind is Thoth the Atlantean who was hailed in […]
Read more..July 23, 2019
Oh No, Anarchists!
By NZB3
Fairly on the mark, although the esteemed cartoonist has a different bent on property relations. How can a true anarchist insist that others abolish property per se? You try it your way, let others run society their way, and we’ll see who pisses off Elon Musk first.* — * Existential Comics has been picking fights […]
Read more..July 23, 2019
1940s: Defend New Zealand: Christchurch vs Auckland
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Defend New Zealand: Christchurch vs Auckland “Here, the sons of a race only two or three generations removed from a neolithic people, handle rifles and automatic weapons with almost affectionate care.” “I saw him doing things with a tommy-gun which would give a Chicago plug-ugly the horrors…For the photographer he went into a wildly whooping […]
Read more..July 23, 2019
Is New Zealand Now A Police State?
By VJM
The Great New Zealand Chimpout appears to now be a permanent state of affairs, as the Sixth Labour Government has doubled down on its suppression of free speech. Far from once having been the world’s leader in human rights, things are now worse than anyone could have thought possible. This essay asks – is New […]
Read more..July 22, 2019
The Alt-Centrist Response To Increasing Polarisation
By VJM
No-one is in any doubt that political polarisation is increasing all across the Western World. The centre seems to be collapsing in every Western country, with the extremes of both the left and the right gaining in power. This essay describes the alt-centrist response to this increasingly apparent phenomenon. Although America is usually given as […]
Read more..July 21, 2019
1980: Moscow Olympics
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 19 July 1980, the Moscow Olympics opened for business. New Zealand officially snubbed the Games for the competing event, the Liberty Bell Classic. Westerners weren’t cool with the Commies invading Afghanistan. The Yanks gave Osama bin Laden a very particular set of skills. Rambo pitched in. Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand […]
Read more..July 20, 2019
Agree With Us Or You’re White
By NZB3
This racist statement is made without irony. Here a premise, ‘racism exists’, is defined not by the nature of what it is but by the political identity of those involved. Does not repair to evidence, does not seek to convince or persuade. Does not appeal to the reader’s intellect. It sets up race-based in/out […]
Read more..July 19, 2019
1930s: Systematic Thrashings
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Kiwi writer Kevin Ireland was born (18 July 1933) into the Silent Generation, as Strauss-Howe call it. Or, from the Theory of Moral Cultures perspective, the Friendly Road Victimhood Culture era. I’ve written about Ireland before in connection to J.K.Baxter’s personal poem of warning to his friend not to praise the state. Ref. 1957: Only That […]
Read more..July 19, 2019
1990s: Captain Planet and the Planeteers
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
“There needs to be an international governing body with teeth that can enforce global climate change initiatives.” – Reddit (contemporary sentiment) By Gaia, yes, an international governing body! And a task force of ignorant delinquents called ‘Planeteers’ to get themselves into deep shit trying to blindly enforce its edicts. And when their interventions go south […]
Read more..July 18, 2019
