The Anti-Individuality in r-Selected Cultures
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This is consistent with the r-selected outlook if you think about it…. ‘Ludicrous’: Calls for plants to be given legal rightsWhat western academics busy themselves with, at taxpayer expense: “Researchers at the University of Sydney have conducted a study into allowing flora and fauna the same legal rights as humans.”¹ The taxpayer-funded research, Multispecies justice, […]
Read more..March 22, 2019
He Who Must Not Be Named
By NZB3
There’s this primeval, superstitious drive in down-regulated humans where they mistake speech and thought for manifest reality. Sympathetic magic. Homeopathy. Voodoo. Lucky charms. They think that by not saying the true name of “You-Know-Who” or “He Who Must Not Be Named” that Voldemort will let them alone. (Such people belong to HC and VC cultures, […]
Read more..March 22, 2019
Post-Massacre Backlash
By NZB3
Read this yesterday. After Columbine… “The adult reaction was frenzy and fear utterly disproportionate to the actual risks faced by teenagers, whose world, statistically, is much safer than it was three, two, or (especially) one decade earlier. In high schools across America, the months after Columbine were marked by false alarms, SWAT drills, stern speeches, […]
Read more..March 21, 2019
NZ On Screen will be suspending its use of advertising on Facebook
By NZB3
I take it that ‘lacks concern’ is your euphemism for Facebook not employing top-down control on its customers to control their content. They’re not going on a banning or censoring spree? Complex social problems can be solved by trusting the public to think for themselves and make the right choices. We can use reason […]
Read more..March 21, 2019
The Case For Cannabis: Christchurch Massacre
By NZB3
Part 60 in our ∞-part series about the arguments for cannabis law reform. This article is an unofficial insert to The Case For Cannabis Law Reform, compiled by Vince McLeod and due for release by VJM Publishing in the summer of 2018/19. I’m trying to think up a way to blame the shooting on cannabis prohibition, so […]
Read more..March 21, 2019
The Hidden Evil Behind Racism
By Gekko
There is a well known saying, “never look a gift horse in the mouth”, meaning that it’s unwise to pass up an unexpected opportunity when it presents itself. A more obviously self-serving formulation of the sentiment from the corridors of power might be cast as “never let a good crisis go to waste”. And so […]
Read more..March 21, 2019
Racism
By NZB3
Old Vince asks lots of interesting focusing questions on Facebook. Tell you a secret about me, any time someone asks an open question like ‘can you identify this old picture’ or ‘what was this old tool for’ or ‘why did she do that?’ it triggers me into answering. Doesn’t have to be me though, I’m […]
Read more..March 21, 2019
The Basics of VPN Use, And Why Every Kiwi Needs to Know Them
By VJM
The aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shooting showed that the New Zealand Government is willing to give away all of our freedoms in its blind panic to clamp down on everything. We Kiwis are going to have to learn how to fight Internet censorship and how to share information despite a Government committed to banning […]
Read more..March 21, 2019
Move Fast and Regulate Things
By NZB3
Lynley Hood¹: “If you’re wondering why our government, our Internet bosses & our advertisers are speaking out about the role of Facebook in the Christchurch tragedy…” “The Web has become critical to all of our lives as well as the world economy, and yet the decisions on how it is designed have never been voted […]
Read more..March 20, 2019
1829: A Letter from Sydney
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today, March 20th, is New Zealand Founding Father Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s birthday. It’s a very flattering bust, I’ve always thought. Makes EGW look like Chris Pratt from Jurassic Park when really he resembled Chris Pratt from Parks and Recreation. Especially when EGW was the age depicted! In reality that unfortunate Middle-Aged Spread had set in. His […]
Read more..March 20, 2019
ISIS leader Abu Hassan al-Muhajir calls for revenge
By NZB3
Bloody hell, another of Brenton Tarrant’s dominoes falls… A high-ranking member of ISIS has called for revenge after the deaths of 50 Muslims in Christchurch. The New York Times reports that al-Muhajir broke six months of silence to call for retaliation.- ref. NZ Herald, 19/3/2019 So far this whole reaction, including gun banning and killing […]
Read more..March 20, 2019
Keep Calm and Carry On
By Gekko
The past week has been difficult for NZ, thrust into the spotlight of world scrutiny for reasons that are as horrific as they are unprecedented. I wanted to record a few thoughts, if for no other reason that it would be interesting to revisit at a later point to see if my view has changed. […]
Read more..March 20, 2019
