Bob Brockie: Australian migrants

Here is Bob Brockie's cartoon commentary on Australia's superior lifestyle!

Bob Jones: Good News

Retired scientist Dr Bob Brockie recently penned the enclosed article for this blog.

In these often contentious and gloomy times it’s always heartening to encounter some good news.

Bob Brockie: Dolce Vita

Bob Brockie's take on blissfully unaware Kiwis as the Maori sovereignty agenda rolls in......

Bob Brockie: The Science v. Matauranga rumpus still smoulders

There has been considerable debate over the last few years on how mātauranga Māori should be regarded in relation to world knowledge and especially science. The Science/Matauranga rumpus still smoulders.

Summarising: In a Listener letter, seven Auckland professors wrote that Maori knowledge (matauranga) ‘falls far short of what we define as science’. The professors were alarmed that the government wants schools to give the same weight to matauranga as to science. Matauranga is a complex set of ideas — a mix of pre-European mythology, traditional and current, knowledge, and ritual. It is virtually a Maori religion.

Bob Brockie - RIP Democracy

 Nanaia Mahuta buries New Zealand's democracy.

Karl du Fresne: Bob Brockie on matauranga and the postmodernism fraud

Today I'm honoured to publish a guest post by the redoubtable Dr Bob Brockie - scientist, sceptic and long-time cartoonist for The National Business Review (in its pre-woke era).

In the 1960s, French intellectuals Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and others dreamt up a new philosophy that came to be known as Postmodernism.

Dissatisfied with modernity, they sought to overthrow its thinking . They asserted that men, women, black, white, strait, gay, powerful or powerless read words differently, that truth, reason, justice, social progress, and natural reality mean different things to different people and are really code words for the establishment. They think the Enlightenment is a fraud perpetrated by white males to consolidate their own power. They want to empower the marginalised.