The Daily Blog Open Mic – 3rd September 2023
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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https://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/stuff-to-watch/300960845/the-food-crisis-the-urgent-timely-documentary-every-kiwi-voter-should-watch
A good reminder for us all, where have we got to since 1984 in lil old NZ? Oz was doing this back then (Midnight Oil):
https://youtu.be/OuC_k51NUqU?si=ZfgiDEdSTiSGQriC
What is power, really?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickmiller/2018/10/25/what-is-power-really/?sh=4f78e71142a7
Sounds kosher. Somewhere to do something? https://www.tjanz.org/about
Tax Justice Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Scoop – tax matters and Tax Justice
https://info.scoop.co.nz/Tax_Justice_Aotearoa
Farmers thinking ahead. Let’s support their move. Perhaps have a Townies for Rural group so we build harmonious, supportive relationship!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/countrylife/audio/2018905142/erewhon-station-where-the-tractors-have-four-legs
Great photos of great country and great horses! Farming all sorts just as NZ really needs.
PS Don’t downgrade Country Life as I have heard FTTT.
Just thinking. In what way is democracy like the free market and individualism theory?
In that they are strong on free choice and assumptions of perfect understanding of the information on which the decision is made about the choice.
In practice then the idea of democracy that we have adopted with zeal is based on false and unattainable assumptions – there are too many angles for us to have perfect knowledge. even if we zealously apply ourselves to the matter, which we generally don’t – going for the handiest meme. Add neoliberal efficiency and freemarket cheapness, an apparent 360 degree range of choices, and what do you get?
A. NZ/Aotearoa in the 20th- early 21st century.
Of course that has just passed through my head like a flash. No reason to take any notice – it hasn’t been accepted as rational or scientific by some august body; there has been no elongated commission; no committee of rabid rationalists have concurred or demurred. Is it possible to see things clearly from a different angle in a moment, and be right? Oh look, the Great Panjandrum* Theory has no clothes on.
(*,,, it is a nonsense word coined by British actor and playwright Samuel Foote around 1755.)