Comments on: Strange And Disturbing Times 2.0

By: gin hag

gin hag — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 20:11:46 +0000

In reply to On Watch. oh what a good comment: 'we have stopped training our own freely'...therin lies the rub, from neurosurgeons to mechanics, restauranteurs, nurses, politicians et al, now all and sundry are engaged in fulfilling the requirements of bureaucracy and have no time to actually do jack.

By: Paul Judge

Paul Judge — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:30:00 +0000

Yet another beleaguered attack on identitarians as though they are the greatest threat to the world economic order, using a very laboured and vastly different historical parallel. About the only thing Mr Trotter gets right here is the role the protestant movement had on the development of modern capitalism.
When are all the vocal critics of this government going to wake up to the fact that even reformist governments cannot make the changes to the structures of corporate consumer capitalism that are necessary to make peoples’ lives easier to cope? Governments can only tinker round the edges of the social and economic problems, make cosmetic changes that have no chance of reversing the real inequalities, or they make them worse (as conservative governments do on a continued and regular basis). The real problem to analyse here is not the problem of the ‘woke’ (which is a complete and almost total distraction for some) but the entrenchment of neoliberal and associated ideologies that keep us in a state of a kind of continued present where nothing actually changes (except for the expanding bank accounts of the wealthy elites). The problem here is not one of various groups fighting for and asserting their right to be whatever identity, which in reality is just what liberalism’s ‘civil society’ has always promised. The problem is the diminishing purchasing power of the working and middle classes, the destruction of income, community and social cohesion through technology, the ongoing obliteration of the living environment, and yet most peoples’ blind acceptance of the powerful naturalising processes of the ideologies of capitalism.

By: WILD KATIPO

WILD KATIPO — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 17:57:37 +0000

Didn’t feel right in just giving Mr Bradbury a serve and leaving you out, Chris. Here’s a wee bit of humour Carrol O’Connor style. Its brilliant. Nothing disturbing about Archie Bunker ! Just nuts and bolts working class conservatism and kind of loveable to boot. Please enjoy.

All in the family Archie on Religion Vol.02
https://youtu.be/xJgFPJ5dSvc?t=3

By: CrimzonGhost

CrimzonGhost — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 05:13:33 +0000

In reply to On Watch. Sounds like a NZFirst resurgence?

By: WILD KATIPO

WILD KATIPO — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 03:17:21 +0000

In reply to billid.

…” The appalling price of shelter aside, things are the best they’ve ever been”…

I dunno so much,… in 1967-8 we were reckoned as the 6th wealthiest nation on earth, behind only Denmark. By the time of John Key we were reckoned as behind Albania, and a little further on, estimated as being ”Mexicans with cell phones”, – ie : 32nd behind the OECD .

So much for neo liberalism and its promise of cheaper prices, competition and efficiency,… what was that all about with power outages recently and people not being able to afford to heat their homes again, mate?

By: billid

billid — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 01:35:31 +0000

Why would there be any protests or revolution when we live like fricken kings.
The appalling price of shelter aside, things are the best they’ve ever been.
This sort of intellectual sensationalism imagines things that are just not there. It’s mental gymnastics of the hand wringing and navel gazing kind.
There are bigger fish to fry – fossil fuel dependence is the big one on the horizon
Not climate change – EROEI
Support local.

By: WILD KATIPO

WILD KATIPO — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 00:19:23 +0000

In reply to On Watch. You need to have been commenting a lot more than you have. Good post. Keep it up, please.

By: WILD KATIPO

WILD KATIPO — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 00:14:29 +0000

Haha,… you have an uncanny way of listing the the attributes of humanity’s arch enemy instead of the loving creator God, Yahweh… ie: ha-satan.

SATAN.

By: WILD KATIPO

WILD KATIPO — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 00:07:05 +0000

l0l !!!,… all Jesus ever said was to love our enemy’s as we love ourselves…as Uncle Hec once said,… ” they’re all going mad out there”… as he listened to the radio…

By: saveNZ

saveNZ — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 22:57:26 +0000

In reply to On Watch. A great comment, On Watch.