Owen Jennings
I am trying hard not to become a conspiracy theorist. I have learned how the climate change issue is exaggerated and dramatised without sound scientific foundation and is now driving hugely detrimental policy changes.
I am struggling against a feeling that there must surely be some other agenda at play.
I have listened to the above explanation of the COVID-19 drama and read Judith Curry’s calm and rational explanation of the overreaction of health officials and governments.
I am struggling against the feeling that there must surely be some other agenda at play.
I have read of the New Zealand Government’s plans for improving water quality. They involve draconian regulations and intrusion into everyday farm activity, undermining property rights, amassing new bureaucracies, making arbitrary calls with no scientific or logical backing.
I am struggling against the feeling there must surely be some other agenda at play.
I read the shallow, biased fluff that passes as mainstream media. The beatification of our Prime Minister who is surely smart and capable PR-wise but didn’t know what GDP was. She doesn’t hold any qualifications or have any experience in economic management and she failed to fire a Minister for flagrantly on three occasions ignoring her rules.
I am struggling against the feeling that there must surely be some other agenda at play.
I have read Karl du Fresne’s well-considered comments on where New Zealand is heading on race issues. I am concerned that Maori are over-represented in so many negative statistics and want to see them participating fully and proudly in a just society. Yet, all we do is unload more and more funding into seemingly bottomless pits that yield no positive or helpful returns.
I am struggling against the feeling that there must surely be some other agenda at play.
I sit and listen to my grandchildren patiently and quietly as they explain what they are learning at school. Our history is being rewritten, values that built a successful civil society are being shunned, even despised, the concepts that dragged millions out of poverty and injustice and built strong economies are ridiculed and rejected. Duty and personal responsibility, the love of the truth and the striving for self-improvement, the notions of sacrifice and respect are discarded. Our schools and universities are in the wrong hands.
I am struggling against the feeling that there must surely be some other agenda at play.
Dark clouds gather. Every corner seems foreboding. Please tell me it is pure coincidence. Point me in a more sunny direction where there are no hobgoblins of despair. Show me things are getting better. Convince me there are no strings being pulled. Turn me around.
Perhaps Greta is right. We are on fire. The planet is doomed.
Not from a degree of warming but from countless degrees of rejection of truth, justice, wholesomeness and honour.
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