Lindsay Mitchell
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People growing produce which earns income for the country are no longer good. They pollute, they treat their animal stock badly, they export livestock in inhumane ways to countries that abuse human rights.
People providing places for other people to live in are no longer good. They pry, they fail to maintain their properties well, they exploit rental prices and deny would-be home owners opportunity.
People who pay the lion’s share of tax are no longer good. They are the greedy privileged.
They’re all bad.
So who are the new ‘good’?
Government members who uncritically side with any group with a grievance because superficial kindness is key.
A media that uncritically sides with any person or group with a grievance because producing headlines that contain ‘racism’ and ‘sexism’ is all that’s left in the age of click-bait. (‘Ageism’ isn’t really very popular because the media hates boomers.)
Public servants who correct and regulate the behaviours of the farmers and landlords (while living at their expense).
Academics who study and publish about the behaviours of bad people (while living at their expense).
What will happen?
The ‘bad’ people will get on with it regardless. That’s what they do.
The ‘good’ people will get ever more emboldened by the seeming acqiescence of the ‘bad’ people. They must be guilty.
Democracy should stand a chance of righting this upside-down stuff.
But with interference in the democratic process, inculcation of children about the past so as the shape the future, and the mass adoration of a highly photogenic Prime Minister (with potential longevity), I am very unsure about New Zealand’s future right now.
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