tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post1457857892741410343..comments2024-03-29T03:41:12.499+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Utopian Dreams and SchemesChris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-41625663346723561922013-07-29T22:25:16.645+12:002013-07-29T22:25:16.645+12:00Good response Chris.
@Jigsaw, the communes of the...Good response Chris.<br /><br />@Jigsaw, the communes of the 70's were often populated with people who were prepared to work and make it work for them. Many were "Long-haired Hippies" but they didn't just lay around smoking dope.<br /><br />All they were doing was to replace some-one elses work with their own.<br /><br />I'm 69yrs old and I worked hard on low wages paying high taxes to support those who had come before me on the understanding that when I got too old to work the generation following me would support me. And you do.<br />Remember all that free education you got as a child? I paid for that. Free dental care? I paid for that. Free or cheap doctors fees? I paid for that too. I never complained about doing so and I am not complaining now.<br /><br />Too many selfish people around today sadly.<br /><br /> Davo Stevensnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-38703868829389195582013-07-25T17:58:35.833+12:002013-07-25T17:58:35.833+12:00Of course the biggest problem of the 'back to ... Of course the biggest problem of the 'back to the land' thing was that its was and is bloody hard work. Having tried some of that-milking our own cow, making butter etc is that takes a lot of effort and learning skills that are in most cases long gone and very hard to learn just from Mother Earth. It wasn't much good if you just wanted to lay about and smoke dope.Jigsawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13906156865367357834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-19815062060001523142013-07-25T11:00:36.857+12:002013-07-25T11:00:36.857+12:00Is that right SHG?
On the other hand, they may ha...Is that right SHG?<br /><br />On the other hand, they may have gone on to become a primary school teacher and a social worker.<br /><br />They may have struggled against the neoliberal counter-revolution as so many baby-boomers did in the 1980s and 90s.<br /><br />They may have fought for every cent of extra funding to keep the services going for the people they cared for. They may have resisted bulk-funding and worked tirelessly to preserve the values of our public education system.<br /><br />They may have voted Alliance, or for the Greens - maybe for Helen Clark.<br /><br />They may have taken out a second mortgage on their family home to help their kids through varsity. They may face another 15 years-plus in the workforce to pay it off.<br /><br />By and large, SHG, it wasn't the sort of people who went to Wilderland who delivered us into the hands of the neoliberals. <br /><br />Roger Douglas and Bill Birch weren't baby-boomers.<br /><br />Not every German who turned 21 in 1933 was a Nazi. Not every Kiwi in their 30s when the 4th Labour Government unleashed hell was a Rogernome.<br /><br />The vast majority of baby-boomers neither asked for nor wanted neoliberalism - some of us even fought it.<br /><br />Those who pulled up the ladder on young New Zealanders belong in a different category: it's called the ruling class.Chris Trotterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-9580692533189326722013-07-25T00:46:20.789+12:002013-07-25T00:46:20.789+12:00Those 1970 25-year-olds now own 3 houses and a bac...Those 1970 25-year-olds now own 3 houses and a bach on Waiheke (to which they travel using their Seniors Gold Cards) and are retiring on superannuation paid for by the wages of the generations that have had the ladder pulled up in their collective faces.SHGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-64391791237373375632013-07-24T20:18:21.556+12:002013-07-24T20:18:21.556+12:00Stuff like this will get you a bad name.Rob Muldoo...Stuff like this will get you a bad name.Rob Muldoon on Friedmanite believers "no real understanding on the impact of their belief on ordinary people.He also had harsher comments on finance houses property speculators and the I.M.F.<br /><br />Of course there is always a better more social caring way.Thats up to the people to decide,not self serving political ego!s.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-5161040355055865832013-07-24T19:43:08.516+12:002013-07-24T19:43:08.516+12:001980.
I've yet to fully understand why, but s...1980.<br /><br />I've yet to fully understand why, but something happened in that exact year which turned everything around. Not just Reagan and Thatcher.<br /><br />It was the year computing technology broadened out from specialist niches to the broader world. It was the year when the boomer generation headed into their 30's. <br /><br />But as you say Chris .. a whole lot of dreams died.RedLogixnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-75471342813013266162013-07-24T15:03:59.430+12:002013-07-24T15:03:59.430+12:00Despite over three decades of attacks on ideals, s...Despite over three decades of attacks on ideals, spearheaded by 1980s Reaganist America, with one of chief weapons being ridicule which continues to this day, the hippy movement is not dead. People with so called Hippy sensibilities need to let everyone else know the movement is alive and well. Especially younger people need to feel that there are others who feel exactly the same way they do about the world. The ant-Hippy movement is essentially reactionary, meaning it has no forward energy of its own. It is essentially parasitic by nature.Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-11917784327988817402013-07-23T19:57:24.766+12:002013-07-23T19:57:24.766+12:00I'm living on the fringes of John Key's so...I'm living on the fringes of John Key's society.<br />I still believe it's possible. <br />To dream and turn Norm Kirk's dream into reality...The Flying Tortoisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212913610390768373noreply@blogger.com