Why Duncan Garner’s Kmart checkout metaphor is actually delightfully perfect
Here is our great anthropologist at work as he wanders into the great snake of the Kmart checkout line…
Martyn Bradbury
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The wisdom of Nandor and where the Greens politically turn to next
The truth for the Greens is that their dreams of being a 15% Party are dependent on the strength or weakness at any given time of Labour. The Greens vote was actually far softer than anyone suspected and with Jacinda now in charge of Labour, it is unlikely to woo much of that back.
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Why Lizzie Marvelly’s compulsory voting idea isn’t a solution
If you chose to not engage with the political process, it’s your right to have the agency to do that. I don’t think forcing people to have their say is a positive response to voter apathy.
‘Vote or else’ isn’t particularly inspirational is it?
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What the Specials mean for the election result
What has to happen now is Labour strategists need to take NZ First policy and Green policy and weave them together with Labour values to create hybrid ideas that provide big vision. The question is whether or not Labour have the imagination and courage to provide that type of political leadership.
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REVIEW: Blade Runner 2 – Masterpiece Cinema or Artificial Intelligence narrative from the computer program running our reality?
For me the scene which most perfectly summed up the confusion of the manufactured reality of this hollowing out of the human experience is when an artificial intelligence program synchs over the image of a real life biological woman to have sex with a synthetic life form.
If there is a better metaphor for modern humanity, I’ve yet to see it.
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REVIEW: Snort
There’s been so many late night improv shows in Auckland 0ver the decades and being an inner city denizen I’ve managed to catch most of them. I’ll see your Improv Bandits and raise you Michael Hurst’s & Oliver Driver’s Watershed Theatre improv, so my cynical and blackened splinter of a heart demands much to giggle but Snort is some of the best I’ve seen.
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Why we urgently need to investigate Chinese influence over National
National Party MPs are personally invested in Chinese Business Interests and shock horror the policy National puts out just happens to benefit those Chinese Business Interests, as for China using farms to help test missile guidance systems for the Chinese military, can anyone possibly find an example more spectacularly splendid than that?
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In defence of MMP and how to fix it
The delegitimisation of any possible Labour led change of Government requires not only an attack on Jacinda, Winston and the Greens for not willing to work with National, but it also needs the system of MMP to be defaced and denigrated as well.
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Why the Slater defamation case is so important for democracy in NZ
Do we want secretly funded fake news campaigns to be able to derail serious public health issues in favour of commercial interests? Is that the kind of public policy debate we want?
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The only thing worse than mass shootings
Only thing more grotesque than the damaged gun culture of Amerika & horror of mass shootings are conspiracy theorists who claim these attacks are manufactured. Apart from the insanity of those claims, it white washes the deep cultural changes needed.
It is a denial beneath contempt.