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Oranga Tamariki withdrawing funding for women and girls’ self defence courses is a cruel Christmas kick in the guts, and astonishing in view of New Zealand’s shocking record of abuse and violence towards its children and female population, now being tossed aside for not fitting its business model and core values.
Over 40 years ago, I did this course with another mother and our daughters, and I can attest to its usefulness. If OT’s very well paid consultants and executive staff don’t include experienced social workers who actually encounter the on-going results of violence and thuggery, it should. If the Ministers of Women and Children are asleep on the job, then they need to wake up.
Juxtaposed with the withdrawing of school counsellor funding, it looks very as if the Christmas message of “ Peace on earth, Goodwill to men, “ should be updated to, “ but not for women and children”. That’s how it is, in New Zealand today, no room at the inn for those needing it most.
Snow White you have noticed one particular example of the ‘thuggery’ attitude of pollies and administration and business to people in general. The health and safety strictures are just edicts from above as part of a facade of caring good management that government puts up as an obedience edict, but it doesn’t mean that there is a desire to promote and attain a humane society. Their object is to personally make money, buy whatever is desired, and balance the national economic books to keep the currency stable and enable trading with other countries between people with money.
Our escutcheon is $*$*$*$*$*$*$.
Because societal norms and conditions have led to mix drinking and violence together, here are some interesting vids I have come across (but not seen all for myself). But might be worthwhile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YERuqjszFkQ
Kavernacle – The drinking culture in UK is insane and getting worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2mCb2_NPsw
Guyon Espiner on NZ drinking culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5fjFxzE6WA
Cultural alcoholism around the world.
Greywarbler. OT’s perfidy here is typical political slipperiness, releasing bad news just before Christmas when they assume that the plebs will be too busy to notice.
In government depts it’s called “The 4pm Friday Syndrome “ and is the domain of inept middle management, who email perturbing announcements on their way out the door for the weekend.
Oranga Tamariki is acting like the Taliban here with its attitude towards women and children, IMO, potentially turning New Zealand into Londonistan where it’s no longer safe for them to walk the streets day or night, and I’m surprised that their head chappie is allowing whoever tells him what to do, to engage in social engineering which is counter-productive at every level, damaging, and ultimately financially costly to we, the taxpayers.
Interesting Snow White – I feel you are like me, having to keep an open door to the reality of what is happening but having to walk away at a certain time when you forbid any more bad news to overwhelm you and take you down with their awfulness. We were mighty once, flawed, needing work, but we could make a difference by beavering away. Now these virtue facades and twisted religious and false social policy precepts smirched beyond repair, ,carried in pollies’ vainglorious, prating heads make a cover over what is actually evil.
One can see how the laundries of the Magdalenas could continue until 1996. And I found they had been started by Protestants in 1767. But now it isn’t just females being dehumanised, men are there too – there is a class attack, plus a gender attack and neither aid the problems we have had all along.
So cheers for Christmas Snow White and I wish us all a 2025 year with some improvements, holding the gate against other attacks, and no reversals. That’s the best we can do I am convinced.
For information knowledge junkies> Here is Dr Brian Easton economist on RadioNZ talking about (audio)
The Rise of the Market Economy. about 30 mins
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/2018854207/the-rise-of-the-market-economy
and (audio)
Taxing Questions about Taxing Housing.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/2018790473/taxing-questions-about-taxing-housing 2021 29.37
and
For religious people who think they put their faith first in everything, (but economics is there too), and for non-religious who think that heaven will provide or smile on them anyway if they just work hard at getting and doing things in general.
Read:
https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/131156/
brian-easton-looks-how-prospect-theory-behavioural-economics-makes-economic
Dec 9/24
Behavioural economics has been described as the most revolutionary thing which has happened to economics for ages. The notion that people do not behave like ‘rational economic men’ (women are mainly ignored) undermines the microeconomic foundations of the subject. Not the empirical evidence on which economics is based – only its interpretation. It also impacts on normative economics, as this column explores…
[Think ‘prospect theory’ and ‘loss aversion’.]
…The theory unites three basic observations: people treat gains differently from losses (known as ‘loss aversion’); people place unequal weight on outcomes with certainty compared to those with uncertainty; and the structure of a problem itself may affect the choices made….
Thinkpiece: Why good people are idiots? Fyodor Dostoevsky pondered on this seeming societal response in his novel The Idiot. It is briefly discussed here. 13.35m
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P46j7Y-pfLs
Bit of the upsetting philosophers – upsetting because they disturb the tranquility or the regularity of our minds and lives. Why bother taking an interest in it, we have climate change and its effects and affects coming anyway. Live like there’s no tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YFTegIpm7I
Schopenhauer – Stupidity as a Virtue and Intelligence as a Curse. 18.16,
We are all in bad economic times. The Masters of the Financial Universe are unable to break their ideology chains. This is on Russia’s economic crisis.
Anders Puck Nielsen is a good explainer. This is just a different and understandable view to add to our usual discourse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WupRwvJ7sOc 10m approx
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