Posts by Sacha
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It's always sad when you see someone like that lower themselves for no good reason. McCully is the dork pulling the strings but no one is forcing Palmer to debase himself.
"Emotional" - you bet. Another embarrassment on the world stage. How's that change feeling, National voters?
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Now you're talking (the song, not the beer)
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She kept on saying "I don't trust so-and-so on this issue". Very interesting. Trust would seem to me to be kinda vital in any party/voter relationship. If they're losing their supporters' trust, that would seem to me to be a potential problem for National. Trust is a hard thing to win back once you've lost it.
Danyl says pretty much the same thing:
Claire Browning at Pundit makes the most articulate critique of the government’s mining strategy I’ve read so far. My position has shifted over the last two weeks. I was sceptical but ready to consider the merits of mines on a case by case basis, but Brownlee has acted in such incredibly bad faith that we simply can’t consider separate cases because we can’t trust a single thing the government tells us on the subject.
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They could turn it off at night, or have it scuttle under some digital foliage. And that scrubby hillflank is not that widely visible.
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and quite a bit of ice, I've heard
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Claire Browning spanks Gerry comprehensively at Pundit.
Set off against that gamble, we have non-controversial conservation values. The government is not further investigating the potential of Kahurangi and Aspiring National Parks, which will remain untouched in Schedule 4. These, I deduce, were considered too iconic. And yet, Fiordland is still in the gun. In fact, almost every tabulated item on pp 9-10 of your stocktake has high, very high, or iconic conservation values, including half a dozen UNESCO world heritage sites. I do not support any appropriation of such land for your purposes. Therefore, there’s no point expending several more millions of our dollars investigating it.
Kahurangi and Aspiring are the reasons the stocktake reeks of what you can get away with. Your fellow Cabinet members, I imagine, wanted to be able to point to compromise, to be seen to be reasonable, and centrist. But compromise, on Schedule 4, is not good enough. That Schedule was itself a compromise. It is only 13% of New Zealand. You can dig up 87% of the country if you want to, including most of the conservation estate.
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Because I can't be arsed writing anything, some mocked up magazine covers to look at.
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Whyever not, Hilary?
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All societies do not have practices that perform similar functions.
Yeah, those brown folk are just not quite human are they Paul. Just listen to yourself, you pompous oaf.
Inclusiveness is hardly narrow. People do understand one another, and art is part of that process of exchanging and negotiating meaning and experience. My understanding of culture seems a whole lot broader than your wizened, pale, commercialised, academic monoculture. It's one strand, but it's only one of many.
Nothing anti-intellectual here, but also not disconnected from the world most of us inhabit beyond academia - and noting your modernist tendencies hardly put you in the most up-to-date camp of cultural theory either.
Never said anything about "harmony" either, just insisting that your Euro concepts are not the be-all and end-all you seem to believe they are - and arrogant colonialism is hardly novel here. I don't know any New Zealanders who would use the term "noble savages" without quote marks. Try learning something about what Te Ao Maori actually means to Maori rather than try to fit other people's understanding inside your own model. And then repeat the exercise with the other cultures that make up this place.
If your thinking is representative of your department's or your faculty's then I shudder to think what damage is being done to this country's cultural development. And what oportunities wasted through sheer lack of respect for other cultures and traditions - and people.
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Digital forest too perhaps. I hear Miramar is good at those..
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