Tag Archives: Politics

Rights and responsibilities

Posted on November 3, 2020 by

Facebook post by Diana Paulikas [ 7/10/20 Facebook post by Diana Paulikas (#workprocastination) on “The American experiment”] The last time I was in Washington DC I literally wept as I read the inscriptions on the buildings and sidewalks that held … Continue reading →

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Global or National

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Which do you believe would be more advantageous to you as an individual and to the country in general, to go global or to focus and improve your country’s own? [ 5/10/20] It is not an either or question.The best … Continue reading →

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Covid and response

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[ 2/10/20 Mischele’s Facebook rant about response to covid and withdrawing from the UN] No! Certainly – we need to respect individual rights, and individual lives; and that demands multiple levels of responsibility from each and every one of us, … Continue reading →

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Overview – Vote for Ted Howard – Kaikoura Electorate

Posted on August 31, 2020 by

If you look hare at the many things I have written, you will find some consistent themes. My prime values have not changed: 1/ Individual life – mine and everyone else’s. 2/ Individual liberty – and that has to come … Continue reading →

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Daniel S posted a link on his facebook about freedom of speech

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Daniel S posted a link on his facebook page to Double down news – the future of journalism [ 31/8/20 ] This is a really important, and an extremely complex issue. If one has as one’s highest values individual life … Continue reading →

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A comment about a Dan Hermansen interview on sovereignty.

Posted on August 31, 2020 by

Ngaio’s facebook link to this audio of Dan Hermansen interview. [ 28/8/20 ] A small opening into the much deeper discussion of the nature of the necessary boundaries and responsibilities between individual freedom and collective survival, with all the layers … Continue reading →

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Quora – Can everyone agree, it is the super rich versus everyone else?

Posted on August 31, 2020 by

Can everyone agree, it is the super rich versus everyone else? [ 18/8/20 ] No. It is cooperate or perish. We either wake up to the mathematical and logical reality that all new levels of complexity require new levels of … Continue reading →

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Quora – Will global warming, automation, wealth inequality, in the future lead to a dystopian Authoritarian populist Eco-fascism/eco-socialism and or even societal collapse or will it all instead lead to a sustainable post-growth, Post -capitalist world?

Posted on August 30, 2020 by

Will global warming, automation, wealth inequality, in the future lead to a dystopian Authoritarian populist Eco-fascism/eco-socialism and or even societal collapse or will it all instead lead to a sustainable post-growth, Post -capitalist world? [ 1/8/20 ] In so far … Continue reading →

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Quora – Is elite rule inevitable from societies? Why does decision making rest in the hands of a few people?

Posted on August 30, 2020 by

Is elite rule inevitable from societies? Why does decision making rest in the hands of a few people? [ 31/7/20 ] What is meant by the question? At what level are you asking? We all make decisions in our lives.Where … Continue reading →

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Daniel S – Facebook post question – When contemplating the simultaneous proliferation of both being “woke” and “red pilled”….what patterns do you notice?

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Daniel S Post [ 30/7/20 – When contemplating the simultaneous proliferation of both being “woke” and “red pilled”….what patterns do you notice?] A tendency of both sets of people to see the first step they have taken as being some … Continue reading →

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