The Daily Blog Open Mic – 22nd May 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog, 3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.
All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.
EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist abuse, homophobic abuse, racist abuse, anti-muslim abuse, transphobic abuse, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, Qanon lunacy, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics, 5G conspiracy theories, the virus is a bioweapon, some weird Bullshit about the UN taking over the world and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.
This brings into the light of the practical issues of thinking and managing life in the future in a combined kind and practical way. Maori leaders will need to do so, otherwise we could get flooded with sentiments of the sacredness of rivers embroiling us to a stalemate situation. We have despoiled nature and commodified and monetised it, and must show respect for it now, but are vulnerable to the absolute goals of superior officials and the idealistic notions of those bent on restoration to a Maori environment of nature as in the past.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2505/S00035/imagination-and-stories-are-impediments-to-revolution.htm
Martin LeFevre – Meditations Monday, 19 May 2025, 7:43 am
Opinion: Martin LeFevre – Meditations
…To anthropomorphize means, “to ascribe human form or attributes to an animal, plant or object.” For example, there’s a sad fad in America of viewing the pet dog as a full-fledged “member of the family.” CBS ended its news show recently with a treacly report of how three siblings dealt with their mourning for a beloved family dog by holding a funeral for it, including a eulogy “celebrating his life.” God help us.
In a more sophisticated but no less disconcerting way, the writer and poet Robert Macfarlane exemplifies a growing fashion of anthropomorphizing nature when he says of his new book, “Are Rivers Alive?”:
“I want readers to imagine rivers as having lives, having deaths and even having rights – and to see what flows from that re-imagining in terms of law, culture and politics.”…