If you care about other people, that’s now a very dangerous idea. If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself. Maybe you can become rich, but you don’t care whether other people’s kids can go to school, or can afford food to eat, or things like that. In the United States, that’s called “libertarian” for some wild reason. I mean, it’s actually highly authoritarian, but that doctrine is extremely important for power systems as a way of atomizing and undermining the public. Here in NZ they are called National Party and Act Party voters many of whom also hate the poor, working poor but evenmoreso the beneficiaries and unemployed or homeless no matter their circumstances. As much as they hate people like me and a good few of you who care too.. Seems as good a time as any to acknowledge this, after seeing the responses to the City Mission queues on threads and blogs.... some really hateful viciously unkind people in N.Z..
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:15:29 +0000