PM Hipkins is flailing. He can’t define ‘woman’ or ‘dictator’ and no one has asked him to define truth. When did politics become divorced from reality, and people uninterested in truth?
Give yourself 10/10 if you answered Covid.
By Covid I don’t mean the viral infection, I mean the political influence that bludgeoned us into fearful submission and made us idiotic and silent.
Covid was the censorship that allowed huge amounts of money to change hands – evil greed clothed in dollar signs hidden from public view.
Here at The BFD, interpreting and debating facts is an everyday occurrence – thank God!
But spare a thought for the brain-addled, still masking, jabbed to the hilt and fearful. They have still not recovered from Covid hysteria – and they may never.
The brain-addled includes small businesses that stopped taking cash, and still don’t, the ‘health’ employers demanding proof of the useless Covid vaccination and boosters as a condition of employment and the 120 politicians ignoring wasteful government spending and the ensuing death and destruction from Covid measures. ‘Not my fault,’ they silently mouth. ‘Let’s just move on.’
Not so fast: you can’t pay media to manipulate the medical industry, abuse human rights and ignore people still stewing in fear, vulnerable to the next health assault by money-hungry Big Pharma.
To their credit, the Nats spoke out against race-based healthcare, which the current government believes will rectify Maori and Pasifika health inequities, but they are silent about ‘decolonising’ Western science and integrating matauranga Maori in to it.
Matauranga Maori is a dynamic and evolving knowledge system referring to the observations, experience, study and understanding of the world from an indigenous cultural perspective. To many this is often equated with ‘cultural wisdom’. It is locally specific and based on long-standing interactions between people and their environment.
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‘Trust the science’, they told us, when they really meant ‘believe the propaganda’. Science had nothing to do with it.
Huge amendments to the rules of science attracted international attention.
John Leake asks if the world is governed by lunatics – people suffering some degree of mental illness – who are heavily influencing or even directing cultural, political and economic affairs?
I’d already been pondering this for some time when I stumbled across an essay that Carl Jung wrote in 1957 titled The Plight of the Individual in Modern Society. His opening reflections strike me as an apt description of the irrational and destabilizing phenomena we’ve witnessed in recent times.
Everywhere in the West there are subversive minorities, who – sheltered by our humanitarianism and our sense of justice – hold the incendiary torches ready, with nothing to stop the spread of their ideas except the critical reason of a single, fairly intelligent, mentally stable stratum of the population. One should not, however, overestimate the thickness of this stratum. It varies from country to country in accordance with national temperament. Also, it is regionally dependent on public education and is subject to the influence of acutely disturbing factors of a political and economic nature.
Taking plebiscites as a criterion, one could, at an optimistic estimate, put its upper limit at about 40 per cent of the electorate. A rather more pessimistic view would not be unjustified either, since the gift of reason and critical reflection is not one of man’s outstanding peculiarities. And even where it exists, it proves to be wavering and inconstant, the more so, as a rule, the bigger the political groups are. The mass crushes out the insight and reflection that are still possible with the individual, and this necessarily leads to doctrinaire and authoritarian tyranny if ever the constitutional state should succumb to a fit of weakness.
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Or were the world leaders driving Covid simply opportunists: “greedy, philistine opportunists who are not constrained by ethical considerations. They are adept at spotting social trends and ruthlessly exploiting them as a means of amassing wealth and power”, as Leake says?
Lunatics or opportunists, Leake’s argument may explain NZ’s 2020 election result and poses the question, will the same thing happen in 2023?
Voting for any party but Labour, the Greens and the Maori Party is top of my voting strategy, but I must confess that it’s becoming more difficult to give my party vote to the Nats, who are sticking to ‘safe’ middle ground.