OPINION
I have lost count of the times when after a complete screw-up of some form or another the words ‘Well we learn from our mistakes’ have been spoken. I was sceptical then, and am more so now. If we learn anything from our mistakes it is merely how to make mistakes. However, I have often learned a lot from other people’s mistakes in my own journey through life. I have learned much more from my successes than from my failures. If I wrote a book about how to fail and nobody purchased it, would that be considered a success?
So now that the dust has settled from the hysteria of the so-called covid pandemic, surprisingly enough, there are still some of us left alive. Now might be a good idea to ask, ‘What have we learned?’
At first glance, it seems that there are many who haven’t learned anything and if a similar situation arose tomorrow they would behave the same as they did last time.
I have learnt that the cultural identity I had formed of my nation and the New Zealanders who populate it was false; Resilient and resourceful rugged individualists, easygoing, carefree but capable, ’no worries mate we’ll fix it up with bailing twine and number eight wire and she’ll be right’. Undoubtedly this picture may have been true enough back in the days of Bert Munroe and Richard Pearse, and even in the time of Rutherford, Hillary and Lydiard, to name a few. An island nation far away from mainstream western civilisation and isolated by the vastness of the pacific ocean we developed and utilised an ability to think critically outside of established paradigms and were forced to act with initiative. This established New Zealanders’ reputation for common sense and a solid work ethic. A reputation that still existed, and held me in good stead, during my travels of the 1980s.
This is no more. During the 2020 -21 pandemic of fear, most kiwis were more than ready to believe whatever outlandish rubbish was peddled by government agencies and mainstream media. For example, the so-called Covid 19 virus was so virulent and contagious that everyone had to stand two metres apart and not touch each other but in order to get a sample for testing a swab had to be pushed an incredible distance into the skulls of the victims of a bogus PCR test. All the while Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern urged citizens to trust the government and its agencies for all information and stated: “Otherwise, dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your single source of truth.” That was a bridge too far for me.
The mainstream narrative and the crazy nonsensical ’mandates’ were so ridiculous that only the terminally stupid could possibly believe in their efficacy.
I now know New Zealand and New Zealanders are not what they once were nor what I imagined them to be. Instead of the astute hard case pioneers of old. They turned out to be, by and large, foolish cowards. Where once Kiwis fought and died to defend freedom against tyranny. Most were happy to sell their liberty for a false promise of health and safety.
That is what I have learned but perhaps more importantly what has the government and those that govern our government learned?
In my mind‘s eye, I see the AI analysis of the metadata compiled during what I think was the most outrageous psychological operation in human history compiling lists of people.
One list would comprise those that believed in the scam. I have no idea what actual title this list might have but I will head it ’Useful Idiots’ The puppet masters and power brokers now know these people can be directed like compliant sheep even to the slaughterhouse if necessary.
Another category would be the ‘Apathetically Compliant’. These are the Kiwis who knew there were gaping holes in the faulty logic and fake science but they went along with it anyway for the sake of taking the path of least resistance. With any hint of coercion or the threat of personal difficulty or sacrifice these cowards obediently complied. Judicial use of one of a myriad selection of cattle prods may be required to get this lot down the race to the abattoir but they can be managed easily enough.
The third category has already been branded, ’Radical Extremists’. No doubt many who were concerned enough to attend a rally or a protest were sufficiently naive to assume that the corrupt despots in parliament gave a toss about what they or anybody else thought, believed or wanted. About a hundred thousand in this category were concerned enough to go to the ‘windy city ‘to ask for their freedom. They were told they were trespassing on public land and run off.
I maintain that it is the politicians not the public who are trespassing on public land (and illegally occupying public buildings too) who should be evicted. The dogs of a politicised police force acting as the enforcement arm of a totalitarian regime were needed to enforce obedience from these radicals who were uppity enough to object to being robbed of freedom by globalist hegemony. Their names and numbers will certainly have been noted.
There is one more category to which I am pleased to belong. I am of the opinion that some games can only be won by refusing to play. I will call this group the ‘Conscientious Objectors’. These individuals did not sign in or download an app to be tracked and traced. They did not wear unhealthy restrictive face masks. They did not participate in the Joseph Mengele like drug testing experiment. We are those who said ‘no thanks’.
I think that simply by refusing to play their silly games and refraining from buying into their technological control grid or the cognitively dissonant madness we will be flagged as ‘difficult’ and will probably command ‘special attention’ at some time in the future.
However, I am grateful that, for now, we are being left to graze the paddock of our heritage and enjoy our national birthright in relative peace.
This is a little of what I have learned. How about you?