When the article was posted, 13 August, I sent an email to the 18 Maori Studies academics at the School advising them of it and suggested that they may wish to respond by return email or in the Comments section; none did so. On 17 August, I sent another email to the two listed heads of department suggesting they may wish to write an article in response; but they did not do so.
I suspect that they did not respond because the university is participating to create an unfounded, irrational myth which they cannot justify. It is known that myths are more readily accepted if they contain an optimum combination of intuitive and counterintuitive concepts (here), such as the idea of a divine celestial source of Maori knowledge, as claimed by their foundational professor in his book. The healing miracles in the New Testament story of Jesus of Nazareth is an example of a successful myth which uses this literary device. The 2024 book Atua Wāhine: The Ancient Wisdom of Māori Goddesses by Hana Tapiata is an example of promoting the Maori myth to the public. I conclude that they are trying to create a myth as a focus for Maori separatism.
However, the academics cannot argue for it publicly because they will be disparaged in scientific circles here and internationally; Richard Dawkins and the ‘Listener Seven’ as examples. Even so, if they incorporate Professor Mead’s book in their teachings they are degrading our universities, particularly Victoria. Once that is recognized, the international student market will fail if it has not already, and perhaps the domestic market too. Furthermore, to the extent that matauranga Maori is informing our parliament and our other institutions, New Zealand is being governed according to unsupported information. So, they are degrading our country too.
That is but an example of the effect that Maori separatism is having on our economy. Their foolishness is ruining New Zealand and examples abound. The removal of Maori words from school texts because their use makes it more difficult to learn to read is not the primary reason for doing so; more importantly, it is because it degrades the English language in New Zealand. The recent kerfuffle over the name on our passport was ludicrous trivia; the A-word should not even be there. Degradation of our valued English language is also affecting our international standing.
Our representative Parliament has taken it upon themselves to let go of the reins and the iwi have bolted, taking you for a ride.
That is being done in the name of a treaty which, they claim, means the opposite of what it literally says. It is not justice, but utu. It is some jealous people who want to inflict domination as revenge for perceived injury to their excessive pride due to being overwhelmed by a superior culture, an event which lifted them from the Stone Age to civilization. That is not an appropriate response and you should not tolerate it. Their hubris should rightfully lead to their nemesis. You should also not tolerate derogatory remarks about your culture or your colonial heritage, which should rightly be celebrated not denigrated.
A comparison with the situation in England shows that it is not a matter of indigeneity but of race, as it is White people who are being oppressed in both cases. There, the two-tier State has the boot on the neck of the British people: Illegal migrants are housed in hotels and given free healthcare, entertainment and pocket money, while British citizens have difficulty getting a doctors appointment; British citizens are being evicted from their homes to make them available for illegal migrants (here); Pakistani Muslim men are raping British children (here and here); Lucy Connolly was recently imprisoned for 9 months for a bad tweet (here); local councils have been removing Union and St George flags and allowing keffiyeh flags (here). And so on.
Similarly, the Waitangi Tribunal and the Maori seats are obviously racist.
The Ardern Government demonstrated that the New Zealand Parliament also has absolute power. Yet our present Parliament is largely sitting on its hands. Any claims they make to fixing the problem are secondary issues. They are not addressing the primary problem which requires that exclusive Maori specific provisions be pulled root and branch from New Zealand legislation; our present two-tier constitution is racist.
Our boys fought and died in several wars in the name of democracy last century: This century the Government forsook democracy in favour of Maori tribalism. That is just plain wrong. They fundamentally changed our constitution without a mandate from the people. Parliament has failed its responsibility of representation, the judiciary has lost touch with reality, and the public service are a loose wheel. Our Government has betrayed us; they are errant and they need to be put right.
The problem lies not with the general Maori population, but with the people in our institutions and their iwi partners: Western culture, and in particular liberal democracy, is not adaptive and you are consequently being deselected. So, adapt or die; you need to uphold your Western culture if democracy is to be retained.
It is worse in Britain where there is now talk of a civil war. I do not advocate aggression, but you need to be more assertive. You need to distinguish between when to be liberal and when to be illiberal. And you need to stop apologizing: What are you apologizing for? The land? They sold it, several times.
Get off your knees and ask: When am I going to be paid for the pakeha taonga of science and technology? Why do treatyists not acknowledge the more than doubling of Maori life expectancy? Why have the sovereignty and assets of the people – which you trusted your representative Parliament to protect and to govern – been given to corporations headed by pasty men with European names? How can the part-Maori elite keep the Treaty money when they are registered as charities for tax purposes and there are Maoris living on the streets?
Why are you paying for the establishment and maintenance of a School of academics and their students at Victoria to write subversive propaganda which undermines your colonial heritage whilst Victoria also disestablished the traditional Religious Studies department founded by Sir Lloyd Geering? That goes beyond philanthropic to being gullible and naive. You would have to be stupid to do that.
What we have got going here is unchallenged, poor-quality constitutional decisions on an errant path. There have been several such in recent history and they generally did not end well. The present groupthink will blow over in time, but by then New Zealand will be beyond redemption. At present, the necessary components are still there. However, you need to act to reconstitute them. And you need to act now, because it will soon be too late.
Barrie Davis is a retired telecommunications engineer, holds a PhD in the psychology of Christian beliefs, and can often be found gnashing his teeth reading The Post outside Floyd’s cafe at Island Bay.
12 comments:
Unfortunately all too accurate, but appealing to Luxon, Goldsmith and my local electorate member, a waste of time and energy.
I do not think it is even utu.
The main bad faith actors (maori politicians, academics et al) are doing the 'activist' work for the betterment of their own wealth. What comes with that is power so they play non-maori and the remaining maori as pieces manipulating society to create their 'mana' and at the same time their bank accounts swell.
We see them and for who and what they are but sadly I think the non-maori politicians (and academics et al) are in on the game and are benefiting too......all the while NZ society burns and they will literally rule over its ashes.
quote 'That is being done in the name of a treaty which, they claim, means the opposite of what it literally says. It is not justice, but utu. It is some jealous people who want to inflict domination as revenge for perceived injury to their excessive pride due to being overwhelmed by a superior culture, an event which lifted them from the Stone Age to civilization.'
I went to a exhibition of high school students art yesterday. Always read the small print!!!!! The victimhood/grievance etc is at the forefront in some of these students descriptors-can't imagine where that came from........aunty sykes.........
'We' used to talk of intergenerational welfare 'types', now firmly cast is the intergenerational victimhood examples.
NZ is lost to these types, maori wards anyone?
“So, adapt or die; you need to uphold your Western culture if democracy is to be retained”. Exactly.
Race isn’t genetic. Race is cultural. The idea of "race" as some biological destiny is a load of historical crap, cooked up to justify slavery, colonialism, and every other power grab in the book.
Race has never really been about pure DNA. After tens of thousands of years of human mixing, migration, and interbreeding, that genetic mixing blurred every supposed "pure" line into oblivion.
Race is virtually all cultural: forged from shared place, history, ideals, norms, ethics, morals, values, and work ethic. Less genetics, all shared ethos. It's the history you honour, the ideals you fight for, the norms that keep you civilized, the ethics that build trust, the morals that curb chaos, the values that inspire, and the work ethic that delivers.
Multiculturalism and Diversity are the real racist traps. Masquerading as tolerance, their inclusion excludes truth and capacity, breeding envy, resentment, entropy and malevolence.
Multiculturalism is a fraud, a cowardly dodge that says all cultures are equal, even when some glorify violence, rape, murder, oppression, and laziness. Time to call them out: multiculturalist's and diversity czars aren't progressive—they're regressive tyrants, hating any culture that dares succeed by expecting accountability.
Reframing of race, from genetics to culture, offers an escape from the grievance narratives peddled by elites and a roadmap to a unity not of skin, but of race. It breaks the stranglehold the words RACIST and RACISM have over hundreds of millions of our own people, of our race.
It’s time to be Racial Realists, to see culture races for what they are, and to fight for our winning one. Time to be racist, again!
I don't suppose many of us raised in the 60s, 70s, or 80s would have suspected we would have a political party in New Zealand modelled on Julius Malema and the EFF. This is what we have now with support from the judiciary, politicians and an unthinking electorate. It goes without saying that this is totally misguided. New Zealand and South African history are not comparable.
Briefly: The Maori Party are gifted seats. The EFF is democratically elected by a large number of Black South Africans.
Apartheid severly disadvantaged Black South Africans unlike Maori who were given equal British citizenship and thus the country developed from there to benefit all citizens. This is the crux. Equality not equity.
Black South Africans are a large majority. Part-Maori are predominantly European and are a 17% minority.
The best way forward for any country, New Zealand and SA, is to take skin colour out of the equation and move forward as one. However, when people see an opportunity to get something for nothing, without working for it, they will take it. This cannot be solved without a non-apartheid political party dismantling all race based privileges.
This maorification fits a Murphy's Law quite well: It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
In Ani Obrien's article recently on BV on slavery , she explains there is a determination by Western Culture and especially our British heritage to denigrated itself. It is clear Christianity our foundation is the main target.
In another recent article on BV is the takeover of schooling by Maori eco - religion on Waiheke Is. . The writer talks of filling 'the god -hole'.
To traditional Christianity we do have a spiritual dimension but David Hume and others of the Enlightenment dictated this was to be cancelled out of academia and materialism/ naturalism and 'science ' take its place. However , the term 'Christian Enlightenment
has recently become an acceptable term ' and Hume' s most famous disciple Anthony Flew , of the 20th century and an ardent and very clever atheist , conceded at the end of his life , this century , that science led him to acceptance of an intelligent designer of some sort.
There has been this century an increasing number of even agnostics
who also conclude science points to some sort of intelligence and for them Darwinist evolutionary theory of Dawkins and Coney , is a theory in crisis.
I suggest we have got what we deserve in the eco-religion takeover , which happily for the advocates of this weird stuff collaborates with CRT to cancel out Christianity .
Hold your hair on I am not advocating creationism in schools just honesty about how Darwinism is failing to explain some aspects of life and we need some other explanation.
Thanks Barrie.
Every ANZAC Day, Ardern, now Luxon solemnly pay homage to my father's generation for their sacrifices, but the day after continue with their philosophy of abusing the democracy that our boys fought and died for.
He should be mindful that the country that gave him the ability to govern itself was was won with blood.
And now he deliberately destroying that democracy.
No respect for Luxon.
So very well put Barrie. We need a new political party before the next elections that has the voice of the people and the policies of the people first and foremost.
Yes - trace Maori is seen as the winning side long term.As long as Luxon refuses to give the people a referendum, this view will only get stronger.
An excellent summation of the current situation in New Zealand.
Integrate or separate. It's a choice that will decide our future.
I have had a wonderful exchange today with educated younger people, fully aware they must "play" at wokery, but fully aware too that they are building cultural strategy to counter the bullshit. I will hear more from them and report. And such a variety of nationalities in NZ.... ,we are not lost yet..
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