The Children of Parihaka (2012)
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Parihaka incident occurred on 5 November 1891. Considering it was a State police action it was humanely and patiently carried out and something for which New Zealanders can be proud. It is not remembered that way at all… “Today in 1881 saw an attack on a pacifist settlement at Parihaka, revisited in documentary Tatarakihi […]
Read more..November 2, 2018
Maoris and Human Waste
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Right now, waste water is discharged into Akaroa Harbour but the legal consent to do so expires in 2020 and may not be granted again. The “Environment Court ruling confirmed that Maori sensitivities..means the whole of Banks Peninsula is having to rethink its sewage systems.”- Stuff Are we to suppose that stone age Maori deliberately refrained […]
Read more..November 1, 2018
John Taylor Gatto
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Since the Education Act (1877) was passed in New Zealand things have really been going down hill. Quote from John Taylor Gatto who died last week (25 October 2018) See also my summary of his most famous book, Dumbing Us Down (1992) Post syndicated from http://ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz/john-taylor-gatto/.
Read more..October 31, 2018
Will the Sixth Labour Government be a One-Term Affair?
By VJM
The Sixth Labour Government has already made one colossal error in its short time in power, and it looks like it’s set up to make another. Considering that their grip on power was already slim, and that they are relying on the infamously treacherous Winston Peters to maintain it, there’s every chance that the Sixth […]
Read more..October 30, 2018
Folksjälvmord
By VJM
On my first visit to Sweden, from 2001 to 2003, I found occasion to coin a word in the Swedish language. They already had a word for genocide (‘folkmord’) and they already had a word for suicide (‘självmord’), but they didn’t have a word for the sociological phenomenon, widespread at the time, that combined both. […]
Read more..October 30, 2018
Is The National Party Now New Zealand’s Natural Opposition Party?
By VJM
It may now have to be conceded that the Labour Party is a genuinely superior economic manager to the National Party. The Sixth Labour Government has just announced a $5,500,000,000 surplus for the last year, and there’s no sign that they intend to piss that money away on tax cuts. As this essay will examine, […]
Read more..October 30, 2018
Why You Can Never Know if Another Person is an NPC, And What This Means
By VJM
Much recent interest has been devoted to the idea that a significant proportion of other human beings might be “NPCs” (non-player characters). What is meant by this is that “the lights are on but nobody’s home” – that the person is not conscious, despite appearing to be. As this essay will discuss, this philosophical problem […]
Read more..October 30, 2018
The Bogan-Faggot Spectrum
By VJM
This essay introduces a new concept in psychology: the B-F spectrum. This is short for Bogan-Faggot spectrum, which is a way of measuring maladapative personalities on a scale from 1 to -1, with a score of 0 a good healthy medium that will allow for well-adjusted behaviour in most instances. At one far end of […]
Read more..October 30, 2018
They’re All That Crooked – And They Always Have Been
By VJM
A large number of Kiwis have just come to realise, thanks to listening to Simon Bridges speaking in the Jami-Lee Ross tapes, that the National Party is utterly corrupt. National are willing to sell positions on their party list for donations, making them little more than a pack of whores and traitors. As this essay […]
Read more..October 30, 2018
New Zealand Already Has A Chinese-Style Social Credit System
By VJM
Some hysteria has been generated recently about China’s Social Credit System. Fears of a cyberpunk-style technodystopia have been stoked by new advancements in mass surveillance technology and data mining. As this essay will show, New Zealand already has a social credit system, and it does the same thing that the Chinese one does. The Chinese […]
Read more..October 30, 2018
Why There Are No Honest People in Politics
By VJM
Westerners have possibly never had less confidence in their politicians than right now. Confidence is so low that an ever-increasing number of people are losing their faith in democracy. Most people are aware that politicians are basically crooks, but it often hard to say precisely why. This essay explains why there are no honest people […]
Read more..October 30, 2018
1886: The Settlers Guide to New Zealand
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Settlers Guide to New Zealand from about 1886 Wouldn’t it be great to have a read? As an anarchist I’m all for migration that is market driven so people can respond to real price incentives to guide their decisions. This guide was part of a state programme helping to fuel disaster for New Zealanders […]
Read more..October 30, 2018
