The Blame Game

Blaming some group or person for the bad things happening is all around us. This group is offended by the comments or behaviour of some other group; the blame game starts and grows. I do not want to give examples, I do not want to participate.

With social media its growth can be phenomenal, it is something that is just too easy to do. It is joyless and polarising. Innocents get caught up in the generalisations of the blamers. Fragmenting us into ever smaller antagonistic groups, blaming and being blamed. Can we all agree not to indulge in this socially destructive activity?

Even in law blame is pernicious. Blatant acts must be held accountable. But the idea of an accident no longer exists, someone must be held accountable even when there was no intent to cause harm.

In news and social media, every perceived error must be named, blamed and shamed, with heartless ferocity and never forgiven.

Let's just cool it. Not one of us is perfect, we will all say or do things that we later regret.

​Life is not a rehearsal.

If we do what we always do, we will get what we always get,

so let's do something different.

Learn from failure and don't be afraid to fail.

Throw caution to the wind.

Eat drink and be merry, 

for tomorrow we may die, - and we are a long time dead.

We won a cosmic lottery at birth.

So ignore the worrywarts and their petty concerns

Be nice to everyone, be mindful and LIVE LIFE NOW!

Pythonesque Politics

I have always thought of politics as vaguely Pythonesque. Now our National Government is absurdly going that way.

First we have the Prime Minister John Key doing a very good imitation of John Cleese as Basil Fawlty from Fawlty Towers over his reaction to the Worth affair.

As for Dr Worth what did he think he was doing? How did he get the title Dr? Baldric is more appropriate.

Melissa Lee qualifies for the position of Minister of Silly Talk after her statements about Auckland.

We should be able to expect better, but I am sure that before long we will see more silliness as our MPs try to give the impression that they are doing something competent.

Auckland Super City

We should not forget it was a National Government that pulled down Broadcasting House in Wellington in an act of vandalism, only surpassed by the vandalism of the Taliban when they blew up statues of Buddha. OK, Broadcasting House was not as old as the statues but the act was the same attack on freedom of speech and thought. An explicit threat to all who would oppose them by a self-righteous, holier-than-thou group of Oligarchs who would turn every one to the same drab way of thinking.

Now we have Auckland Super City being foisted on us. No prior discussion, no democratic process of finding out what the people of Auckland want. Ignoring their own advisers and destroying the good and replacing it with their own centralised command structure from their own despotic plutocracy.

When the Auckland Super City is complete what other Cities will have the same fate? Wellington, Hutt Valley and Poriua watch out.

The economic recession was created by bankers, accountants and business. What idiocy that they are now in charge of the recovery. Now they are putting those failed oligarchs in charge of our cities.

What hope have we?

J'accuse, - Denial of Internet access Law to be retained

So our Deckchair shuffling Government has decided to keep one of the most stupid pieces of legislation from the last Government. Now what does that say about them?

In a nutshell this legislation was to protect copyright holders of downloadable material. As a holder of copyright material I applaud the intent but most certainly not the means. It is abhorrent.

In practice it means that is you are accused of illegally downloading copyright material your Internet service provider has to deny you Internet access. No proof, no discussion, no right of appeal, no Internet ever. You are switched off.

I am not going to go on about why this is an abuse of power by Government and the "Big (and I mean big) media companies" and how it deprives us of our rights, or how the ISPs are being forced to monitor your online activity (They do not want to be part of it). No, all of that and more is apparent to anyone who thinks about it for a minute and is not a captive of "Big media".

If all it takes is just an accusation, the answer to this is obvious. A very simple act on our part can make this legislation unworkable and and it will be repealed in less time than it takes a politician to cover its backside.

If  we accuse every member of Parliament, Parliament itself and every Media Company and media boss of illegal downloads. The ISPs must act on  the accusation and before long all "Big Media" and all MPs will be offline. They will have no right of appeal and the only way they will be able to get online is to repeal the legislation.

I call on all people who feel strongly about this to act. I am sure that the ISPs will co-operate and will act to the letter of the law. Let us show that we will not take this lying down. Email a copy of this to all the people who you thinks might act. We have the numbers, we have the Power.

 

Prince Charles

So Prince Charles has been taken to task for calling a friend "Sooty". I never thought I would ever defend a member of the Royal Family, but feel obliged to, if only to protect my right to call them names.

It is my opinion that the Royals and all the Aristocracy are just the latest iterations in a long line of exploitative thugs, bullies, sexual deviants, rapists, and murderers. That is how their forebears have accumulated the wealth, property, power and position that they now enjoy. And they will do what they can to preserve it all. What they have, has been acquired by exploiting the bodies and efforts of my ancestors. I resent them all.

On the basis of that you might think I would like to see the Monarchy abolished. Not at all, just brought down to our level and have the Royals and Aristocracy exploited in like fashion. I enjoy the public parade of their human frailties, and if newspapers and television can make money out of their embarrassment so much the better.

National "do nothing" Government of New Zealand

So we had this election in November to change the Government right. We went from a Labour government who did lots of stuff (and we can argue if it was good bad or indifferent) to a Natio(a)nal Government who wanted to change everything because they thought everything the Labour Goverment did was wrong.

Since then what have we heard from them - Zilch, that's what. They seem like a rabbit caught in the headlights paralysed with fear. 

So they made a few changes that were no more than rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic; ensuring the third class passengers had nothing to cling to and the second class passengers paid for the first class passengers life rafts.

When we have heard from them it has been "Too little, too late and with bad grace". So much action is earning them a reputation.

Shall they go down in history as The National "do nothing" Government of New Zealand and our Prime Minister earn himself the sobriquet ,John "Deck chair monitor" Key?

Population

So why with a grossly overpopulated planet are we so fixated on safety. Surely a lottery that contributes to reducing the population load on our world must be applauded.

We are going to need to do something soon. It is our sheer numbers that are mostly responsible for global warming and depleted resources. All our attempts to reduce greenhouse emissions are futile without an effective policy on population reduction.

If we don't address the issue soon and rationally, nature or a new Pol Pot will do it for us.