Posts by andin
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Buy free-range eggs. Or cage-free, in a tight week.
Low "tech" always a good start.
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Sacha,
I stayed for a bit, listening to the thankfully few speeches, but became amused at the committee nature of it.
In preaching antimodernity while living as moderns, ecological elites affirm their status at the top of the postindustrial knowledge hierarchy. Affluent developed-world elites offer both their less well-to-do countrymen and the global poor a laundry list of don’ts—don’t develop like we developed, don’t drive tacky SUVs, don’t overconsume—that engender resentment, not emulation, from fellow citizens at home and abroad. That the ecological elites hold themselves to a different standard while insisting that all are equal is yet another demonstration of their higher status, for they are thus unaccountable even to reality.
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Thanks for the correction. My excuse, it was early in the morning when I wrote that unresearched, and my memory failed me.
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If I had to listen to music played at games I'd be sending Etta round to Break up Somebody's Home..... in various ways.
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Islander,
my mother is our whanau beneficiary (Kaimohu is our titi-island) and we were brought up on the seasonal foods. To me, the aroma of cooking titi is the smell of winter, the smell of home
All three posts give just a glimpse of what a rich history there is to be found amongst the peoples of this land. Thank you.
And I just read of the journey of the dairies of Freidrich Kellner. I know of Werner Klemperer's diaries. These are the stories I seek out. The stories of "small" people, anonymous to history's limelight but illuminating in ways that bright lights arent.
It puts me in mind of watching reality police and custom's shows which brings out my sympathies for those caught in the intractable webs and gloried over by officialdom(petty of otherwise). Which has become our bugbear of late. I dont want them to be let off, just given a metaphorical clip over the ear told not to be so silly and sent home. But they get crippling fines, and enduring criminal history (if not prison) which often they dont deserve.
I dont blame, as such, the officials in this most cases either they do their job with a sense of humour, but for some the uniform and attendant, nee inflated community status goes to their 'head' and they develop what I can only describe as malevolent habits. I would like to get statistics and put some figures on it (or some one else do it). It is an evil all of those in positions of power need to guard against, having all the company or state might and machinery(or indeed the mind of the herd) behind doesn't make you right.
But how to instill that in people who seek those positions out? Funnily sports people often go for such jobs (its the regularity of hours and pay that attracts I think)
Or maybe educate bring up people with that ability intact/developed to almost sense another person, not hide behind rules that doles out heavy judgements based on codes that make little sense, or prejudices or predelictions formed either in the past or in isolation. And I dont mean prejudices in the narrowest sense of that word, we all have to navigate this life based on what we have learnt or learn. Our world is small as we are growing up by necessity, those 'prejudices' often dont transfer well or are forgotten, trampled over in the rush to be a part of something out of childish/childhood experiences.
OOhhh the accompanying glory or horrors.
Oh dear I've gone on too long.
But thank you again Islander. Thats all I wanted to say really. -
Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Rich Lock,
become the change you want to see in the world.
How do you know Im not?
Snowflake? avalanches? Your metaphor is misplaced. -
Lying again on TV3, on Campbell Live
There was some kind of downward-lipped dour faced mutt in the background. Reminded me of those rear window ornaments, popular a while back.
That nodded approvingly at each lie and poured visual scorn on the questioner.
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Islander,
so, I bequeath a library to my literate & sideways thinking own/whanau?
They will share more with you than a stranger, one hopes.
And I hope there is at least one who knows how to appreciate it, put it to some use. -
Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Islander,
we can offer better ideas for futures than – politicians or bureaucrats.
We used to be called tohuka:
The offer isnt the problem it's who will take it up. Dont care about what people call you, as long as you know
(and, as my partner loves to tell me, somewhat grandiose). I can’t tell.
You cant tell? oh dear lord!
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to DCBCauchi,
I reckon you should listen to people like me for a change.
I dont think those in charge have a fucking clue for a goddamn second.
And I listen all the time, thank you very much.
It's not about listening, or dredging thru the past.
The problem, is , and has always been us...people.
We have a wealth of information all around us yet we still screw up.
your move...