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Rule of thumb in New Zealand

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    • No it’s not. I think the idea expressed in the picture and the slogan is daft. It’s ahistorical nonsense and meets Martyn’s own definition of ‘woke’ stupidity.

    • Keep to your motto kcco, if the portals of your mind ever creak open, it will be finis.
      These vivid words are for you and Bob1st.
      https://genius.com/Simon-and-garfunkel-the-sound-of-silence-lyrics
      And in the naked light, I saw
      Ten thousand people, maybe more
      People talking without speaking
      People hearing without listening
      People writing songs that voices never shared
      And no one dared
      Disturb the sound of silence
      [Verse 4]
      “Fools,” said I, “You do not know
      Silence, like a cancer, grows
      Hear my words that I might teach you
      Take my arms that I might reach you”
      But my words, like silent raindrops, fell
      And echoed in the wells of silence
      [Verse 5]
      And the people bowed and prayed
      To the neon god they made
      And the sign flashed out its warning
      In the words that it was forming
      And the sign said, “The words of the prophets are written
      on the subway walls And tenement halls
      And whispered in the sound of silence”

    • Keepcalm, the left always need someone to blame. They never get off their backsides and actually do anything though.

    • Reverse engineering-As opposed to
      the overt anti colour racism of the political right there keepcalm-I’msorted

  1. Keepcalm, the right always need someone to blame. They never get off their backsides and actually do anything though.

  2. Thank you AB for positing this on behalf of all of us. When I think of it, Bob1st keeps us sane by being such a good example of banality and the difficulty of breaking free from the sticky strands of everyday flim-flam. (When you see how many words there are for deception in google you will realise the barriers to free minds for wider thought. (If you read John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids he uses actual clinging filaments as detainers and ultimately death dealers. Ours at present are just in the mind, preventing a movement of thought from custom to other possibilities.)
    [From The Chrysalids]:
    I saw some of the strands in front of the cave-mouth hesitate, undulate, and then come drifting inwards. Involuntarily I closed my eyes. There was a light gossamer touch on my face. When I tried to open my eyes again I found I could not.
    It needs a lot of resolution to lie perfectly still while you feel more and more sticky strands falling with a feathery, tickling touch across your face and hands: and still more when you begin to feel that those which landed first press on your skin like fine cords, and tug gently at it. https://esleo.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/9/9/119923438/the_chrysalids_-_john_wyndham.pdf..
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chrysalids
    Though the nature of “Tribulation” is not explicitly stated, it is implied that it was a nuclear holocaust, both by the mutations and by the stories of sailors who report blackened, glassy wastes to the south-west where the ruins of faintly glowing cities can be seen (presumably the east coast of the US). Sailors venturing too close to these places experience symptoms consistent with radiation sickness. A woman from Sealand, a character with evident knowledge of the Old People’s technology, mentions “the power of gods in the hands of children”, referring to the nuclear capabilities of world powers led by incompetent political leaders. …
    …Uncle Axel, a former sailor, has travelled far to the south of Labrador, and from a distance seen the “Black Coasts”, where there are areas with what look like ruins of the old civilisation. He also recounts second-hand tales of South American primates living in forests.

    Later, the existence of geographic areas far less affected by the nuclear exchange and fallout are established, particularly Sealand (New Zealand), which is home to a socially and technologically advanced society where telepathy not only is the norm, but is encouraged and developed as a survival advantage. ..
    …Critics have disagreed with Wyndham’s implication that two differently evolved species must necessarily fight to the death. Wyndham justifies this in a lengthy speech from the Sealand woman near the end of the novel, but her reasoning seems at odds with the implicit plea for tolerance in the earlier part of the novel.[11] This implication also exists in The Kraken Wakes and The Midwich Cuckoos.

    What are you thinking?

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