Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
The sudden arrival of Plan B which argues for the acceptance of a blood offering to the free market Gods is proof positive that the Death Cult Capitalists need to win hearts since they lost minds.
As TDB has pointed out from the beginning, China lied about this pandemic.
Bruce Jesson would be rolling in his grave at the lack of imagination and ideas being espoused by the Left right now. There has never been a better time to challenge the fraudulent foundations of neoliberalism, we’ve had 35 years to prepare ideologically for this moment, where is everyone?
Look, I appreciate everyone on the Left are busy, there’s a pandemic on.
However.
There’s a pandemic on.
There isn’t going to be a returning to normal, even under the best case scenario we are at level 3 or 2 for months at a time with the occasional shut down and heavy handed quarantining, testing and tracing programs with no tourism other than returning citizens until a vaccine is available.
There are times aren’t there that you look at the faces of the men and women who stand around the Present as he rants and you see something in their faces that actually explains their silence.
If we are not going to seriously tackle the reason why the gang wars are brewing then we won’t actually stop it from erupting.
A bunch of middle class Ivory Tower Academics weened on the public teat & inoculated in plush self-isolation, demand we go back to work in the teeth of a pandemic which viciously impacts the working classes worst?
We can’t trust ‘news’ on social media and we can’t trust the Governments themselves – one of the legacies of this universal experience we are globally experiencing will be that there wasn’t a universality of truth, that were were a thousand different lies masquerading as the truth all desperately promising explanation while erasing complicity.
Alienating woke micro-aggression policing Identity Politics activists to the left of me, climate denying crypto-fascist alt-right incel Trolls to the right of me, and here I am stuck in the middle with you.