All the problems that we have with traffic congestion, rents going up every year, and all the other crap - it won’t be fixed by politics. I also don’t believe that the fertility crisis can be solved by paying women to have children. My GP disagrees, he still thinks that financial incentives can play a role, but I believe it’s a spiritual sickness rather than a financial problem.
Likewise, with housing, rent and mass immigration, these aren’t issues that can be fixed with a discussion about government policy. Maybe in 10 or 20 years the situation will slightly improve but I won’t hold my breath.
New Zealanders are obsessed with being part of the group, they are too scared to have their own opinions, that’s why progress is so slow. It isn’t “tall poppy syndrome” or “she’ll be right”. New Zealanders are just not willing to say no to the fake solutions offered by Parliament and the media.
On NZ reddit, users described the New Zealand mentality, that we prefer to avoid talking about the hard topics, and we wait on the other person to bring them up, then we only go further if the other person goes further.
Literally a nation of sheep that rely on someone else to start and steer the conversation on their behalf. Only chiming in when it’s “safe” to do so.
Redditors seem to have a big problem with Americans talking in a loud voice, but that’s just how some people enjoy themselves. I often talk far too loud, my voice just carries, don’t know why! My voice just defaults to loud and I have to make a conscious effort to talk quietly or just be really relaxed to be quiet. Most people have to make a conscious effort to talk in a loud voice, but naturally they talk quietly.
New Zealanders are too meek, and they are also disorganised. They want someone else to speak out, but when someone does speak out, then everyone will crucify them and say they’re weird or that they’ve gone too far, or one part of their idea isn’t good, so the whole thing must be thrown out and forgotten. So what’s the point in trying to lead by example? There are heaps of wimps on reddit who post all the right stuff - hate for the greed that’s strangled our economy. But these reddit users are too hopeless to start a movement, unless it’s just a group that has a monthly meeting, where they take ideas, and then plan the next meeting.
I had thought about making regular videos for www.rumble.com but I also realise that people aren’t ready for that yet. There’s a potential audience of millennialls, zoomers and alphas who would agree with most of what I say, but then I face an uphill battle to promote videos. If I made a single video on my Rumble account and posted it to reddit, it’d get banned in about 15 minutes for some bullshit rule, like “self promotion”. I’m not monetising anything, in fact my channels and social media accounts are not licensed in any way. I deliberately choose the most “copy left” option available.
People aren’t ready to hear the truth and if I start making videos on Rumble I won’t post it anywhere but a pure free speech website like Gab Social. If I say something bad about Indian Uber drivers and suggest that we should boycott Uber Eats (because they’re taking unfair cuts from restaurants and reducing profit), then there’s always a risk that someone will cry racism. If it isn’t that, then there’s some hard-ass who thinks I’m a commie and that I’m anti-business or just plain lazy, and they’ll attack me personally while praising low wage and zero hour contracts as “freedom”.
I’m sick of hearing about how this-or-that political party will save the country “IF ONLY THEY COULD GET IN AGAIN FOR ONE MORE TERM!!!1”
Stop worshipping these political figures and dumb binary concepts of socialism versus capitalism, and think about what you can personally achieve for the health of the country. Taking sides and arguing about government policy or historical factions is so dull and boring. Think of yourself as more than a “brand ambassador” for some worthless political party. If you have any courage then use it. Tell people what you really think, and don’t get into the Chris versus Chris rubbish, trust me it’s a dead end.
New Zealanders are their own worst enemy.
I often talk far too loud, my voice just carries, don’t know why!
Did you have a loud house growing up? Using voice coms in games it always interests me how radically different some people’s home environments are. I could never imagine living in a house that noisy, but I guess for some cultures it’s perfectly ordinary.
And, yeah, what you’re describing sucks a lot, but it’s most certainly not unique to New Zealand. The whole world is struggling right now to understand how our newly invented technologies fit into the grand scheme, and what that means about our place in the universe. What makes this incredibly difficult is that the rapid pace of technological development has exposed many flaws in how we have been doing things for a long time. Some of these discoveries are highly embarrassing, ruining the lives of totally innocent people and stoking the fires of anger because there’s no good explanation for why you’ve lost everything other than the carelessness of those who wield power. Then you’ve got actual bad actors who are being threatened with exposure for endeavours they aren’t capable of getting out of, even if they’ve actually learned why it’s wrong thanks to the new perspectives technology offers. At the ass end of our world you’ve also got actual malicious actors who, for their own reasons, really do want to hurt others for the pleasure of it.
So those of us who really do care are tasked with
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Figuring out what our place in this world actually is, in light of new discoveries
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Figuring out how to actually communicate that, considering the challenges inherent to communication, exacerbated by all of the difficult circumstances and bad actors I outlined above
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Actually DOING it
Now, while many lament the sorry state of the world and bemoan their fates, some have actually been working very hard to address these issues for a very long time, because the world has been through similar trials before. Religious texts, occult writings, philosophy and the natural sciences all offer a wealth of knowledge on many subjects important to maintaining the function of the world. Thing is, when you do start taking learning these things seriously, something slowly dawns on you: Our civilization really is a social construct… but it could not possibly have been created by humans. It is because people have been kept in fear that they don’t even attempt to learn these things for themselves, content with allowing themselves to be used as pawns in games they aren’t even aware are being played because it’s made comfortable for them. But the world has a way of healing itself, and so even if people are kept in bondage by ignorance the systems they are bound by will decay as they are a net drain on resources, producing nothing novel themselves, and as people suffer from the decay of the systems keeping them comfortable they will be pushed to seek real answers elsewhere, and they will find the truth:
You were never alone.
When you talk about technological development causing us problems, do you mean social media like Facebook and X? Besides that what else do you see? Perhaps economies being connected in real-time, with international shipping? I think that obsession has driven people mad. For a while a lot of people were able to get rich, but now we’ve hit the limit of greed and out-sourcing. The only people who believe in globalism and global trade are people who are rich from it.
I agree, nothing new with problems in the world, and people not adapting to change, but how many people have a historical perspective that allows them to understand this? I think in terms of 1000 or 2000 years ago because I play Age Of Empires and all its DLCs, so I’ve heard of things like the Chola Empire, Princess Yodit, etc. I see the patterns.
I didn’t grow up in a loud house, and I never played multiplayer on the first Xbox, didn’t even play multiplayer on the 360. I regret not trying more of the arcade games though. My ping sucks in this country, and I never got used to voice chat while gaming. I’m too autistic to play the game and talk at the same time, so sometimes I just go quiet while I’m thinking xD
I don’t think voice comms would have been good. I was quite angry and stupid as a teenager, I would’ve got banned :(
When you talk about technological development causing us problems, do you mean social media like Facebook and X? Besides that what else do you see?
I’m actually talking about ALL technologies, as we had a natural way of living which accounted for all of our needs before we started changing how we live our lives with technology. Every new thing we make is displacing something that used to be there, we just didn’t notice how serious the unintended consequences were until we attempted to change literally our entire lives 24/7/365/1000.
how many people have a historical perspective that allows them to understand this?
You were never alone. There are actually a LOT of people around who understand these things, but related to my answer above, it’s generally kept private to allow each new generation to seek the truth for themselves, and develop properly along that journey. It is only because we have interrupted an entire generation’s development that things are becoming more clear to a larger portion of the population.
I was quite angry and stupid as a teenager, I would’ve got banned :(
You would have fit right in, honestly. I grew up on computers, so I learned many of those behaviours as my only significant social exposure, and have had to train myself out of it later in life, because my personality isn’t actually a match for them, and I have to actively seek environments which are more appropriate for my personality.
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