New Zealanders increasingly shoulder Treaty burdens not theirs to carry—learning Māori rites, obeying Crown guilt, and performing cultural submission. Here’s why.
Well said. Honing the intellect in the service of critical thinking has never been our strong point as a people. We ran for so long on a commonsense and intuitive notion of fairness and that no longer suffices. We are now faced with articulating the buried ideas that a fair society is based on and finding that the institutions that would be expected to provide that have been intellectually hollowed out.
The grievance industry has grown over time into a perpetual motion machine, aided and abetted not only by self-interest, but by hand wringing liberals as well.
History suggests that everything has an end point, and I hope that this situation is no different. Whatever transpires, the New Zealand we grew up in has changed, and that version won’t return…it will be something else.
Thank you for explaining this phenomenon, which was always under-served by *virtual signalling*. So much of our national pride and kiwi agency has been chipped away, that its hard to recognise what it means to be a New Zealander any more. Shared to family, friends and folks who struggle to find the words for this dereliction of duty by our house of reps and their executive class captains. It's now up to us to refuse the imposition.
I'm guessing that the key behind this is your comment that 'Latin, calculus and Shakespeare are gently left behind.'
Yes, exactly! We have lost both the Classical and the Christian foundations of Western Civilization. These have been taken from us by a Trotskyite-influenced teaching profession. We have lost our sense of history and tradition by adhering to a consumer culture and everything reduced to four beats per bar and takeaway fast foods....
Thank you for articulating NZ’s biggest societal problem. Strangely, my experience is that more recent immigrants take up the atonement attitude most, perhaps because they have fled from oppression (typically not English colonialism) but perhaps more because the majority of existing NZers acquiesce in silence as you describe. Time for us to stand up for our proud Western heritage.
Well written. We used to describe cultural cringe to our attitude to the UK. Now it's our attitude to Maoritanga.
Well said. Honing the intellect in the service of critical thinking has never been our strong point as a people. We ran for so long on a commonsense and intuitive notion of fairness and that no longer suffices. We are now faced with articulating the buried ideas that a fair society is based on and finding that the institutions that would be expected to provide that have been intellectually hollowed out.
The grievance industry has grown over time into a perpetual motion machine, aided and abetted not only by self-interest, but by hand wringing liberals as well.
History suggests that everything has an end point, and I hope that this situation is no different. Whatever transpires, the New Zealand we grew up in has changed, and that version won’t return…it will be something else.
Progressives, not liberals.
Thank you for explaining this phenomenon, which was always under-served by *virtual signalling*. So much of our national pride and kiwi agency has been chipped away, that its hard to recognise what it means to be a New Zealander any more. Shared to family, friends and folks who struggle to find the words for this dereliction of duty by our house of reps and their executive class captains. It's now up to us to refuse the imposition.
Glad you've seen this. I was going to forward it to you lol.
I'm guessing that the key behind this is your comment that 'Latin, calculus and Shakespeare are gently left behind.'
Yes, exactly! We have lost both the Classical and the Christian foundations of Western Civilization. These have been taken from us by a Trotskyite-influenced teaching profession. We have lost our sense of history and tradition by adhering to a consumer culture and everything reduced to four beats per bar and takeaway fast foods....
Thank you for articulating NZ’s biggest societal problem. Strangely, my experience is that more recent immigrants take up the atonement attitude most, perhaps because they have fled from oppression (typically not English colonialism) but perhaps more because the majority of existing NZers acquiesce in silence as you describe. Time for us to stand up for our proud Western heritage.
This article is amazing. It has given structure to the amorphous ideas that have raging around my brain for years. Thank you so much.
A Sceptic