Why Census will be a flop
Census will be a flop.
It will be a flop because the cost cutting pricks who run Government saw a cheap means to run the Census by putting it all online.
That fucked up spectacularly because the only reason we fill the Census in (in the old days) was because a very passive aggressive Aunty would appear at your door, knocking on it for at least 3 weeks before you had to actually do it while putting the hard word on you to do it.
New Zealanders freak out at conflict because it demands an emotional articulateness most of us lack. We used to fill in the Census because we didn’t want a fight with that very passive aggressive Aunty from Census, however the millisecond no one is turning top and you just require us to do it, oh go fuck yourself.
The cost cutting pricks at Government who thought they could put everything online to save money misread our acquiescence as compliance when it was always forced.
Compounding that attempt to save money has been an explosion of anti state sentiment alongside far more vicious political cultural polarisation.
The woke, fourth wave feminists, nationalist Māori and non binary activists HATE white men, white men hate everyone else, Māori despise Pakeha, Pakeha despise themselves (and māori), women believe all men will rape them, men believe they will all be accused of rape, the poor hate the rich, the rich hate tax, Wellington hates Auckland, everyone else hates Wellington, the Professional Managerial Class hate the Lumpenproletariat, the bosses hate the workers, the workers hate the bosses, young hate old, old hate young, antivaxxers hate everyone, everyone hates antivaxxers, the right lates the left, the left hates itself, the woke have cancelled everyone, Incels hate women, everyone hates Incels.
In such a toxic horror cauldron of intersectionist grief and pain there is no solidarity to fill in a bloody Census!
Being told you must fill in the Census so that the Government knows where to resource minorities in your community means very little if you hate everyone in your community.
What’s that you say, if I don’t fill in the Census my train station won’t get funding, well the fucking service it provides now is a fucking joke, so how much worse can it get?
If the infrastructure is s fucking joke, why will this Census make it better? The cynicism gets even more jaded when the whole woke gender issue is injected into it. I don’t understand why the State needs to know who I like to fuck.
How does knowing who I like to fuck getting me better public transport?
We have not even begun to process the impact of social media in generating schisms upon schisms upon schisms in our culture.
Identity Politics ultimately ends up in a billion splinterings competing for attention to their wound.
In such a multi fractured culture constantly offending each other for attention, the resentment that generates kills solidarity and people do not want to engage as their response to that.
Newsroom found a vast slump in trusting the institutions that run the Census…
Trust in census a big issue, survey suggests
Many Māori and Pacific men say they won’t participate in the census. David Williams reports
Public trust and confidence, especially among Māori and Pacific men, looms as a problem for the census, internal documents reveal.
…this Census will be a flop and people will struggle to explain it, and that’s the real problem because the polarisation of NZ culture is a deeply dangerous new cultural mutation post Covid that isn’t being appreciated or acknowledged.
We unforgivingly hateful towards eachother now and that will extend to the Census.
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The people who do not want to fill in the census do not count. They do not want to be considered in any govt action.
Childish reaction isn’t what is needed here… It’s an education initiative that explains clearly what the census is useful for.. EG; Where to build new schools, hospitals, roads, and houses, with the attendant infrastructure required to service them.. That’s a starter for ten… the whispering campaign that is using outright lies to deter people from being involved is self serving at best, and those who would ostracize non participants in the census show us that NZ is still way too far away from being able to engage in adult discourse to have any shred of credibility left… Is it any wonder that those with brains, and morals, are either planning to leave, or have already gone from here?
Can’t the government just snoop on our records through agencies if they want this information, or if they must, hire a consultant to snoop on us through an agency?
Ethan W. They do snoop, and they also want us to snoop on each other, but if they didn’t have a census then we’d know that they snoop from the stuff which they’ve got on us, so they gotta census us, got it ?
Precisely!
In the Far North there has been a turn around in iwi groups to supporting filling in the Census. I am not saying this will make a major difference but it will make some. The local social media pages are full of people seeking information on how to get the forms or do the online version. There is actually an extension in Tai Tokerau till June because of the Cyclone effects.
Some well known iwi leaders up here who openly admit they previously have never filled in a Census form are now encouraging all hapu and Whanau to co-operate. It is in the wake of COVID/Cyclone response which has seen a lot of capacity building.
You are spot on Martyn….I loved the article and I am still laughing at your sharp witty comments, it made me laugh and think.
The Census scenario is sadly rather fooked.
Indeed, when the government is only governing for Transgender Maori bike riding Wellingtonians, why would anyone in an “out” group want to identify themselves for more government attacks?
Why would someone tell you they are Pakeha if the health system is going to discriminate against them and the school and tertiary education system discriminate against their kids?
Not to mention the forcing of gender terminology on people.
The census has been fucked by divisive , stupid government.
And thanks to government over reach during covid a lot of people haaaate the government.
I’m picking this will be the worst turn out ever.
I think you might be wrong as nearly 2 million had filled in the forms by census night . I think $125 million should get results after the debacle of the 2018 showed how the Greens could not organise a good fart
2 million out of 5 million does not sound like a good result!
Filled in the census last night with my wife saying don’t even bother . . to be honest comes across as a treasure hunt to find as many Maori and Alphabet People as they possibly can.
The government has shown that it can and will weaponize highly sensitive personal data such as health records to pursue their agenda. They recently herded, divided and scared people using sinister methods of information manipulation so the question must be asked, can our personal information be trusted with these people (who are bloody well there to serve us, not themselves)? Would a capitalist model be better suited for communities here, where our data is accessible for a fee? How does $10 per character sound for every survey returned, or maybe $5 per check box? A win-win, the government get our private data for their personal arousal and we retain the future rights of our data and lives through the business contract.
Big turn out of woke for census, less so everyone else!
Like the pride parade and school climate strikes, the woke religion seeks to create a vehicle to promote itself out of proportion to the vast amount of people who don’t believe in it and are not heard.
lol so true that part about passive aggressive Aunty making me fill out my census forms.
I didn’t get any forms and didn’t bother with online after working a ten hour day. If Aunty Census catches me at home she can fill it out for me.
Know the feeling. Apparently $2000 fine. Is that fine? Why do they want this only through wires. Are we laboratory rats to be poked and prodded electrically possibly with tasers, to see how we have survived the latest tribulation and Act of Guru Dogs?
After all we know when the United Nations reports how badly we treat our young, worse than dumb animals in the field, it leads to ‘ Remind me that I care about this; well we’ve just realised we don’t care’, that’s the end result of all the money spent on NZ Census. The stats are just to enable them to get fodder for plausible deniability.
You can have one of mine, we got two. The only difference apart from the ID number was the maori words in the footer – I guess the first version offended someone. Way to waste my money guys@
1. Census field staff were paid for months while staying home withe some foing no work.
2. The Woke Managerial class in Stats NZ assumes that we are all have computers and internet access at c $75 a month etc. Govt depts like MSD have the most hopeless web functionality and thus service, but good PR and spin.
3. We are still waiting for the forms.
The gubermint has proven that they can’t be trusted with our data. They breached privacy of many gun owners which made a nice shopping list for thieves, and now they want more information to put out to anyone? No thank you. Methinks it is just another way to get us on the Social Credit system that they want to push so badly….just like China