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Great advertising from a stuff article – high impact and informative news! Turn up you twerps and get the latest like everyone else is doing and thinking – don’t be left behind.
‘The Medium is the Message, McLuhan.
“The medium is the message” is a phrase created by Marshall McLuhan meaning that the form of a medium embeds itself in the message, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived.
“Medium is the Message” – DigitalRhetoricCollaborative
umich.edu http://webservices.itcs.umich.edu › mediawiki › index.php
and…
The title…”The medium is the massage.” The book was initiated by Quentin Fiore. McLuhan adopted the term “massage” to denote the effect of numerous media in how they massage the human sensorium.
The Medium Is the Massage – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Medium_Is_the_…
Further to my ‘man know thyself’ comment – we must remember that this applies to humans in general. We need to understand our highs, and how low we can go.
This is a report on a coronial hearing about three deaths and the vicious turn that a person’s, in this case a man’s disordered brain can take. No doubt if looking at the murderer’s childhood we would see that he was bent towards violence by treatment of his supposed nearest and dearest either by omission or commission.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/528357/nicole-tuxford-inquest-corrections-failed-to-identify-the-acute-risk-to-her-life-coroner
How can we public put our faith into anything that is or was the purview of the government or its agencies or contracted firms? In control of known violent men, who KNOWS what they should be doing, or are they prevented from acting appropriately because of not knowing or some irrational feeling or barrier – not this:
At the time of Tuxford’s murder, Tainui had been spiralling, including drinking heavily and ranting to people about his perceived betrayal by Tuxford.
At a party a week before her death, Tuxford told someone Tainui had threatened to burn down her house.
A co-worker told Tuxford to change her phone number and keep away from Tainui.
“She told me that she wanted to see that there is any good left in a person that has done something like he had done,” the co-worker said…
Corrections was responsible for managing the risk that Mr Tainui would reoffend. This included responsibility for identifying the risk, monitoring it and taking steps to address areas of increased risk,” coroner Elliott said.
“The risk management process broke down because the probation officers, who did not knowKNOW Mr Tainui was a criminal psychopath, did not have crucial informationINFORMAYION relating to an area of identified risk, namely Mr Tainui’s feelings about and actions towards Ms Tuxford.
“If Corrections had this information,INFORMATION a recall application would have been made. It is likely that this would have resulted in Mr Tainui returning to prison. However, even if it did not, steps could still have been taken to minimise the ongoing risk to Ms Tuxford.”
I think that no death penalty is part of our civilised kindly country dream. Unless the government can follow a system of respecting people of all types and help citizens by treating parenting as an important task supporting and educating them, we will continue to have children’s minds shaped or warped by their care-givers and television/games/the internet’s malign side.
Government’s role in this, despising ordinary people with children who are attempting to live normal lives (in abnormal conditions that worsen every year) is large and ignored. It is also being unfair to non-criminals by settling violent and brutalised criminals released from prison amongst non-criminals who are attempting to live with human values.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/what-you-need-to-know/527715/rateable-values-market-values-and-rates-what-you-need-to-know !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Operator give me Information. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcFd18ZZsOs
A thought – we have a wrong mistaken idea about present conditions caused by government. It is actually a citizens boot camp. Gummint has decided that we have weakened over the last century from the bold, hard-working colonials and resilient, capable Maoris that were on top when starting NZ/AO off. That explains why we are returning to 19th century conditions after considerable efforts to grow a grrreat little nation!!
So are we up for it? Are we up for it? Let’s hear it and create a 21st century nation that is ready to step up and be vibrant? Bang the drum. Hear the Kokatahi Band from the freemen of the South Island’s West Coast.*
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApZ9vmhX8yE
0:50 / 1:59 Kokatahi Band – Hokitika hoedown (1977)
https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/43240/the-kokatahi-band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjlhGC6-lVQ
Kokatahi Band Hokitika 28 Jan, 2023, 1 of 2
Understood to be the “oldest colonial gold mining era band in the Southern Hemisphere”
Was that the sound of a party balloon blown up and released untied; just one of the clever, home-grown party tricks we can fall back on in our inventive No.8Wire way which I think is still extant under our limp fingers, soft from tapping little boxes made of ticky-tacky. The
Kokatahi band got themselves together with solidarity and no cultural cringe or worries about what others with fine feathers thought.
We could rebuild our country, recycling what is left of the 20th century achievements – if we had spirit, camaraderie, determination and a sense of humour and a give it a go approach. We have developed into a class society – in the Regency times in the UK 1795-1837, they referred to the toffs as being ‘high in the instep’. They often were not up to much and didn’t approve of having a trade. If we all worked to join-up the nation with a little or large work input from the willing and keen, we could carry the lofty along and they wouldn’t be too weighty for the most of us.
But one must be canny as the Scots would say. In Regency times the toffs paid their tradesman’s bills last after the gambling ones and the horse racing bets and so on. Tradesmen had to exist on the hope of a good win by the toffs who often lived on credit.
It’s not dissimilar now, so have we got the nous to sort out a life for ourselves amongst the landslips and droughts and firestorms? We could do it, if the right-hearted and headed, and community-oriented people got together with control over local trusts* for the region and outsiders buying land needed, and acting as patrons to everything we should be doing for ourselves. It wouldn’t be as good as Europe, but it would be ours and we would be careful with it to keep it and our locals in good shape. With fun and work and good living – good community fairs and events. Tourists would love to see what this bit of the world was achieving. Think, everything else has been tried!
* ILT For Our Community – ILT
https://ilt.co.nz
ILT has returned over $216 million back to the community through grants and donations since we as a city voted in this form of social enterprise in 1944.