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Just when you think there’s ‘listenings and learnings’ in this space going forward ( https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/418593/police-ending-armed-response-teams-after-trial-commissioner ),
along comes this:
http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2020/06/our-tone-deaf-police.html
Btw, does anyone know whatever happened to Maori Wardens AND the proposed gun register (and I don’t mean gun owner register).
Seems to me that a properly funded community participatory Maori Wardens service MIGHT be an option worth consideration about now. Couldn’t be worse than Oranga Tamariki
Another I/S piece that came out today:
http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2020/06/armed-response-teams-were-racist.html?m=1
Defund the police!
Now it begins, now it starts – AMP Wealth Management will go ahead with its plan to quit offices in central Auckland and Wellington because most staff want to work from home and the lockdown proved it worked, the company says. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/418687/amp-to-quit-auckland-and-wellington-offices
Most staff – was there a blind poll taken? Of that what were the actual numbers for different options, and what did the vast majority wish of the following say 80/20 – 1 Always from home, 2 Always from office, 3 Choice with occasional demands for personal attendance, otherwise choice of days and times spent at office or home, 4 When coming to office must be within certain hours allowing for glidetime start, possibly early to avoid traffic congestion?!
What should be happening now if companies close their offices is for them to pay a rental of equivalent of one room of the house to each staffer. The pressure on relationships will make for unhealthy mindsets as people don’t get out and about as you do in a normal working day, talk to others ’round the water cooler’ etc. And the city centres with amenities built around catering for the workers popping out for lunch, shopping! Apparently Wellington is already feeling it after a month’s lockdown. But why bother about people at all. Let the computers do all the investing and examining of documents and deals and talk to each other? We are so clever some of us have made the rest of us superfluous. What will happen when the vast number of us realise this?
This faceless sort of business approach by AMP will make workers more anomic, on the way to working for something that has no humans running it at all. The workers then mix less and less with their fellow citizens, becoming anti-social, fearful of difference in peoples and culture and increasing the present paranoia. We will all end up like Americans, and that will be the end of colonial NZ, with only Maori trying to keep their human culture – He tangata, he tangata, he tangata, unless they have gone to universities teaching materialist culture like Harvard in the USA and drunk the koolaid.
There is a felt need for security and community that feeds cult membership and servitude that may lead to death. Will they be forced to take poison as in Guyana by Jim Jones thugs? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones – he looks rather like Brian Tamaki). Or as in the Swiss-Canadian Solar Temple mass poisoning?
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/5/newsid_3933000/3933957.stm) Or in outbursts of hate that is gathering steam and violence all the time on-line and exploded in Christchurch on good and innocent people in a mainstream religion?
An unhealthy isolated existence is likely to foster ‘Jung’s shadow’. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology)
Carl Jung stated the shadow to be the unknown dark side of the personality. According to Jung, the shadow, in being instinctive and irrational, is prone to psychological projection, in which a perceived personal inferiority is recognized as a perceived moral deficiency in someone else.
His thoughts may need to be re-examined in today’s situation. Jung stressed the importance of individual rights in a person’s relation to the state and society. He saw that the state was treated as “a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected” but that this personality was “only camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it”, and referred to the state as a form of slavery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung#Political_views
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