A Telethon For The Agoraphobic?
By NZB3
Nervous or unsure? “Vaccine Hesitant,” they also say with respect to people who have nor and perhaps will never take the government’s palliative medicine. This narrative of assuming everyone who doesn’t consent to the Jab & Jab & Jab is “hesitant” or phobic is one kind of illogical derogatory slur. A passive-aggressive attack. A minimisation […]
Read more..October 16, 2021
Taboo and COVID
By NZB3
I’ve started collecting memes of the taboo-mocking theme and there are lots! The category of Magical Thinking in use here is called taboo (Maori: tapu.) The ritual taboos oneself and makes the rest of the community (“Team of 5 million”) safe. In return for this magical service the rest of the community/Team are supposed to […]
Read more..October 14, 2021
A Study in Comparative Religion
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (1890) by James Frazer has had substantial impact on anthropology and major influence on modern thinkers. For a study of the structure of pre-philosophical thought, or ‘magic’, you could ask for no better guide. To understand New Zealand history we sometimes need such a guide since, from […]
Read more..October 13, 2021
The Public Expulsion of Evils
By NZB3
Because the current COVID-19 Crisis in New Zealand fails to make sense from a rational stand point might we look for the logic in an irrational one? The first and most comprehensive guide to practical magic is the author of The Golden Bough, James Frazer. Although he writes a great deal about pre-civilised methods none […]
Read more..October 11, 2021
Easier To Fool People Than To Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled
By NZB3
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. That’s because being fooled is a way of life. Gobbling up Group Think, being a conformist, thinking by proxy, Identity-Protective Cognition, talking to your friends to find out how you feel, going shopping to find out what you desire,….this is the […]
Read more..October 9, 2021
1841: The Graham Manhunt
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 8 October, 1941, 80 years ago as I write, New Zealand’s greatest manhunt began. Stanley Graham was confronted in his farm house that morning by 4 armed police seeking to disarm him. All four were soon shot dead. Then the circus began. Two weeks of the combined forces of New Zealand Police, […]
Read more..October 7, 2021
1872: Hochstetter Water Race
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On 14 January, 1878, two canoes raced each other through remote West Coast bush to the picnic at the end of a huge snaking government-made aqueduct. This was opening day for the Hochstetter Water Race between the lake of the same name and the goldfields of Nelson Creek 30km away. “The government water race project […]
Read more..October 4, 2021
Legal Deposit
By NZB3
I learned that some government libraries tax authors by demanding they supply free books to The State. For example, in Ireland, the government demands an author provide 13 copies of their book for free! Stealing 13 of every book you write is still a crime. Just a legalised one! “legal deposit is not theft. It’s […]
Read more..October 2, 2021
Lockdown Dementia
By NZB3
Dementia Auckland paid to tell us that “Dementia is like a lockdown that never ends.” They’re not wrong. “Dementia feels like lockdown every day,” says their sponsored Facebook advert. Lockdowns are a paced mental degenerative disease artificially imposed on healthy people. Thank you. I agree! Lockdowns, and dementia, don’t kill you outright but they slice […]
Read more..September 30, 2021
The 45 Year Old Junior Doctor
By NZB3
2021 is the year New Zealand got “The 57 Year Old Police Rookie,” a woman who benefited from the lowering of standards to allow less fit people to police us. “If you want it hard enough you just work hard, you really have to,” she said. Ref. The 57 Year Old Police Rookie Now we […]
Read more..September 29, 2021
1939: Polish Diaspora
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This photo from Granity District High School in 1939 is a good image to go with the Polish Diaspora. It shows eight girls in European-like traditional costume and a large Star of David. The background seems to show the coast, as befitting the West Coast school the caption claims these students as attending. Poland was […]
Read more..September 29, 2021
1834: See You Later With The Alligator
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On 21 September, 1834, the HMS Alligator unleashed a can of wop-ass on Taranaki Maori, Ngati Ruanui. During the recent Waikato invasion and slaughter of the Taranaki Maori some survived by joining with white settler Dicky Barrett and his people. They successfully withstood a siege at Otaka in 1832. Other refugee Maoris fled to the […]
Read more..September 28, 2021
