Why are Kiwis such simps for corporations?
Once upon a time, Kiwis stood on their own two feet on this land, they bowed to no one and I remember those NZers and those Kiwis, but the way post-Covid bitterness burnt us, something changed didn’t it?
Somehow you have all gotten so twisted by the trans debate, by Māori road signs and orange road cones that you have dropped to your knees to kiss corporate arse.
Look at how National, ACT and NZF ram through deregulation policy for their donors interests.
Look at how the Agricultural Industry bought and paid for the environmental policy under this government!
Look at how ACT destroyed 2000 local jobs for school lunches so they could give the multi hundred million dollar contract to a large international transnational.
Look at how the NZ Initiative plus the Atlas Network are pushing the deregulation agenda for National, ACT and NZFs donors interests!
You are willingly being slaves to corporations because fuck that Trans kid right?
You are handing over your personal sovereignty to corporations because Māori is spoken during the weather!
You are agreeing to be a prostitute for corporate profit margins because a vaccine against a once in a century pandemic somehow doesn’t meet you standards?
Comrades, your enemy isn’t some kid transitioning, it’s not a Māori woman in politics, Māori women in media, Māori women outside walking (we really do have a problem with giving our Māori women comrades crap)
Your enemy isn’t drag queen story time, it’s not environmentalists, it’s not beneficiaries, it’s not state tenants, it’s not renters, it’s not the Treaty.
Your enemy is who it’s always been, the banks, the billionaires, the corporations, the powerful who use social media hate algorithms to warp you into believing their interests are your interests when nothing can be further from the truth!
How have you allowed you post-covid bitterness, hatred of trans, fury at vaccines and rage at Māori to blind you all to being whores for corporations?
Get off your knees Kiwi!
I demand you stand Kiwi!
You bow to no one, especially not the fucking corporations.
What your anger has twisted you into Kiwi, to be whore for corporations?
Stand Kiwi, stand!
We may have disagreements over social policy, but to be tricked as easily as you have been for corporate interests?
Your rage and anger has been manipulated by the Right and put into empowering the corporations.
What have you allowed your hate to make you Kiwi?
What have you self mutilated yourself into chump?
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Apparently ACT and it’s Karens don’t take this past account into consideration and are driven more from gaining votes than helping the vulnerable specifically if they’re Maori.
well said Martyn.
NZ – God only knows what I’d be without you, This is the song we need to sing to our country, for our country, for our planet!! God there possibly is, but we don’t know, but it is necessary to believe in the specialness of each other, and try to co-operate and live with the planet and its ways – we have warped everything but we must have this core belief to retain our personal humanity and look for it in others and help each other. Blah blah – but this is absolutely true and brush it aside and you are defeated.
And read about the past and the socially minded and the philosophers. Aldous Huxley and E.F. Schumacher the economist living in England – Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful
Not Bigger than Texas as the saying used to be.
Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys has just died. Here is the music and the boys at the start. So young and untried by life in the first link, bearded and trendy in the second. Great words and good music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AifqxMaURFI Round about 1966.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTrvttaDwJM
Us all singing in harmony! – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrp_FuvbHu4
I listen to the Concert program a lot now. I am aware that this music is magical humanity stuff. The notes are replicated on paper as dots etc on lines and this can be read by any person in any country – a universal language. All the people playing have worked at their art,. perfected it and then gather to make wonderful sounds together in concerts. The symphonies, songs whatever have been written by people with a special feeling for sound and music and devoted much time to it, their lives often.
I was listening to some Sibelius of Finland which was undergoing problems with Russia, he was also dealing with his alcoholism but persevered. And perseverance is the name of the game with Ravel’s Bolero, keeps up the beat, rolls on hypnotically and carries you with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwLABSm0yYc 6.56
Let’s try to turn this period of our planet into a time of music, repeating sections that are heartening mixed with periods of meditation then drama. Always wonderful.
I think that this brutalist regime we are in has dropped music as important at school, as well as humanities – the real study of people – to what’s now top of the pops at universities – bringing in money and profit. Conclusion – we are no longer interested in people, the PTB have decided, machines are in, manual work is for the lower people, the sweepers, while we are converting ourselves to machinery, blowers and blow-hards!
Try reading The Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett RIP.
The Auditors hire young clockmaker Jeremy Clockson to build a perfect glass clock, without telling him that this will stop time and thereby eliminate human unpredictability from the universe… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thief_of_Time
Also Lu-Tze the ancient wise monk crops up. He takes on the role of The Sweeper. And he finds satisfaction in that humble manual task that keeps the surroundings tidy and suitable for magic to take place.
https://wiki.lspace.org/Lu-Tze
….Lu-Tze found out that nobody worries about a sweeper. Sweeping practically makes people invisible, and certainly anonymous. And a sweeper can get into the most restricted places, because even those places need to be cleaned. On occasion, however, he finds the anonymity undesirable and feels it is necessary to remind people of Rule One. While he claims the position of a sweeper, he is widely respected by many who know him, and feared by some. He is something of a legendary hero among the pupils and is the only known master of the art of Déjà Fu. …
[Now this is true, I found when I was a cleaner that I would have access to important places and was trusted to be honest and careful with probity and security though having no standing in the priorities of importance in the place. Which I respected too.]
lspace.org
https://www.lspace.org › books › apf › thief-of-time.html
The Annotated Pratchett File v9.0 – Thief of Time – L-Space
Terry Pratchett’s work is full of references, allusions, parodies and in-jokes. Hundreds of such references have been collected in the Annotated Pratchett File (APF)…