tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post8801324584633086325..comments2024-03-29T17:12:19.648+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Performative Caring.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-25119898843728337822022-07-17T12:35:00.162+12:002022-07-17T12:35:00.162+12:00Worth repeating ...
Quote: "Even if Nationa...<br />Worth repeating ... <br /><br />Quote: "Even if National and Act decline Sky News’ hatchet, there can be little doubt that the “performative caring” slur will spread rapidly: ... that it will damage Ardern’s “brand” is indisputable. How could it not, when the Ardern Government’s successful demonstrations of practical kindness 😄 ... indisputable. How could it not, when the Ardern Government’s successful demonstrations of practical kindness are so very thin on the ground?<br /><br />Oh ironic sarcasm, here is thy sting! "Very thin" ... Indeed!LARRY N MITCHELLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-60382522364727009982022-07-15T18:15:51.101+12:002022-07-15T18:15:51.101+12:00The government might pay some of NZ Initiative'...The government might pay some of NZ Initiative's running costs or perhaps not. Perhaps the people or corpse that fund it could pay more tax and take their foot off the pause pedal so we could go straight to our own choice of experts as a country influenced by its own citizens. I think Oliver Hartwich came to us from Germany as his last port of call didn't he? We have had overseas experts or influences for decades now and we are on our way down without hope for better and stalling and patronising tactics from our 'hexperts'.greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-36887017751136239342022-07-15T17:59:30.880+12:002022-07-15T17:59:30.880+12:00GS I have the Monty Python answer to those who di...GS I have the Monty Python answer to those who dismiss a disaster as next to nothing - just a scratch!<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4<br /><br />Are good people wasting their time trying to regain the past reasonably good country when so many were diseased before Covid which has exacerbated their malaise? <br /><br />I think that a group needs to form which is committed to the real decent society (not necessarily the one that religious Jim Bolger had in mind). It has to be concerned about all matters and each willing to compromise somewhat on their ideas after long discussion of the pros and cons. Then only proceed if the outcomes will be good for all, or if that can't be achieved at first, when unsatisfactory affects amended. It obviously would be difficult. But the vision must be clear and no spoilers or time-wasters allowed and people would need to have experience demonstrating judgment, and be upfront about their failings as well as successes and at the end prepared to have small reward just a living and security and to live amongst others of similar approach and standard. All need to be involved in learning, being informed and prepared to argue their point at decision-making and explain all its possible outcomes.<br /><br />I'm thinking along lines of John Christopher's The Tripods books, don't know if the tv series <br />conveys the situation I am considering. Try TradeMe under John Christopher books.greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-28867657262860200402022-07-15T05:43:50.311+12:002022-07-15T05:43:50.311+12:00I don't particularly like Aussies rubbing thei...I don't particularly like Aussies rubbing their salt into our wounds (although to be fair we do the same to US/Aus politicians) but...<br />Regrettably, we are saddled with a government that is absolutely world-class in banning, restricting, and 'enquiring' into things - but absolute dunces when it comes to building things or fixing problems. As Oliver Hartwich points out, in his excellent Op-ed recently "Faced with a serious problem, the government sets an ambitious long-term goal. It then launches massive public relations campaigns. Following that, it blows up the bureaucracy but fails on deliverables." Oliver's full essay can be found here for those interested.https://www.nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-and-media/opinion/even-mediocre-would-be-easier-to-bear-how-nz-lost-its-mojo/Jason Barriernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-82140348230538296412022-07-14T21:21:23.558+12:002022-07-14T21:21:23.558+12:00When all is said and done, Labour gave in to press...When all is said and done, Labour gave in to pressure and abandoned the most vulnerable of us – of which my wife is one. But if you have a look at the MSN news, the comments there are often along the lines of "I don't care about your health, only that of me and my family, and that means I don't have to bother wearing a mask." I only dip my toe in there rarely, because I come out feeling like I need a wash, but overwhelmingly that seems to be the attitude. Some people fight back, but tend to be excoriated. One guy mentioned that his wife was in a vulnerable group, a problem with which I have some sympathy, but his comment received a dozen or so little angry faces.<br />God I really long for the time when these absolute – no other word for it – fuckwits had to print out the little pamphlets on the Gestetner and spend good money mailing them out to a dozen or so of their idiot friends. Nowadays of course they can get thousands of the gullible on social media. I don't bother commenting – all I do is report them when they provide Covid misinformation or make racist comments. I mean it's bad enough here but 10 times as bad over there. Apparently masks don't work and Covid is no worse than a flu – maybe I'll try sending them over to that website where they have obituaries for people who refuse to get vaccinated and died wishing they had, or maintaining to the end that it's just a cold. :)Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-69587459222075338502022-07-14T20:45:31.821+12:002022-07-14T20:45:31.821+12:00When it comes to 'performative caring' the...When it comes to 'performative caring' there are more ways of seeing how we perform one is to look how ww favour Australia. <br />We boost their banks profits by billions, and have minimal legal hoops. <br />We are paying to keep under control their destructive, mad terrorist who caused worldwide consternation by killing off Islamists some of whom might have been Iranian.<br />We pay them to sell us our food from which they make a large profit. <br />We have offered to relieve them of a blot on their landscape which the refugees they have imprisoned are.<br />We are attempting to tame the various criminals they choose to send back to us. <br />Kiwis who live and work in Oz pay good lumps of tax to them yet receive small assistance when in difficulties. <br />We put up with their careless treatment of our Prime Minister, dishonoured by making her step in disease-controlling solution on arriving at their airport as if she was an ordinary visitor. (When there was a bovine infectious problem I think.)<br />Another dishonoured time for our Prime Minister when she had to remain in airport isolation besieged by angry Ansett staff when that airline collapsed mainly because it was full of financial holes and thorns when we unwisely bought it.<br /><br />Those are some of the Australian governments' faults that come to my mind. I have still a book from the 70's about Bazza McKenzie's adventures by Barrie Humphries. The amusing Oz peccadillos would make you chunder or even let loose a technicolour yawn.greywarblernoreply@blogger.com