Posted by alexandra_k on May 9, 2015, at 17:18:19
In reply to Re: not doing so well » SLS, posted by alexandra_k on May 8, 2015, at 20:24:14
our government seems determined to waste the money they are getting out of our asset sales. ANZAC day... the day we celebrate the soldiers who gave their lives for us in WWI. 100th centenary this year. They have been glorifying war for months in the build-up on the news etc.
Not so very many days after that the government decides it simply must spent millions on a referendum about whether we want to change the flag or not. Because they want us to stay part of the commonwealth, of course, and we've just contracted out a whole detention facility, ahem, I mean rehabilitation facility to the British (I mean, since they are doing such a great job of running their own prisons / rehabilitating their own prisoners).
Apparently enrolments really are up, this year. They increased the number of places to the supposedly 'elite' program. You know, the bio-medical science one they let me enroll in, without any science background at all. Apparently we have more smart kids, too, since the national level scores are doing better than last year... But of course there isn't any national level exams or other school-independent objective assessment...
I've heard a few people 'how luck you all are to be here'. And that seems to be the thing. 'Oh, you only went for a few months before you dropped out to support your 16 year old girlfriend and her new baby - how lucky you were to go there at all'. 'Oh, you didn't get in to any of the professional practice healthcare programs because you couldn't pass chemistry. So you ended up dropping out to go to technical college. Oh, well. You were lucky to get to go there at all'.
I guess they are thinking exposure might help the next generation? Help this generation have some idea of why they failed (not enough was invested in them) so they invest a little more in the next lot? I don't know what to say...
But hungry 17 and 18 year olds are fidgety and squealy. YOu need to ask them to be quiet, and even then. If they could not interrupt other people learning then I don't suppose it would make a difference. But it does interrupt other people learning. I'm disabled in that environment.
I'm getting pretty sick and tired of hearing people play the majority minority card. The government threw a bunch of money into Maaori health and... The money vanished the way the money vanishes when people spend it on themselves and don't do anything to help the people it was supposed to be for. There is some inquiry at the moment about where the money went...
The thing is... When people go on about how white people came and stole their lands and they signed a document they didn't really know what it said - thought it was an attendance register or whatever then later hear they are signing away their rights... You feel bad for them. That isn't far. They don't really have the same opportunities. We should help them. Make it right as much as it is possible to do such things.
But then you give them a bunch of money or give them a tract of land or whatever... To help repair... And the leaders within their communities use that stuff to help themselves and they proceed to screw over their people the same way they were complaining about how their people got screwed over so long ago.
They are a bunch of f*ck*ng hypocrits, in other words. They don't seem to have any genuine compassion or ability to help their own (lack of funds isn't the problem) and complaining about how we don't have any genuine compassion or ability to help them... Well...
I feel bad abotu this... But the answer seems to be to give them whatever it is that they think they want. They want a doctor. Okay... Let them think they have a doctor. What do they think a doctor is - really? Someone who attends to the chief on demand? Attends his beck and call because that is a sign of respect? Thats the sort of kind of idea, isn't it. Well okay... Here... This one... We call that one 'doctor' and he's yours.
That's how come you have a bunch of people running around the healthcare system obscuring their badges and acting like doctors... I don't suppose any of them would lie if you directly asked them... Can talk about 'screening' people (anyone can 'screen' people). Make the people think they are getting healthcare. 'I'm sorry theres nothing more we can do. We did everything we could'. Genuinely... How competent do you think people are going to be when standards need to be lowered so far in order to get people into these positions in the first place...
It's just... A crock.
You can tell the health of a university (perhaps) by how they treat their artists. They have moved the philosophers into the basement. The intellectually curious, love of learning, founders of the academy... The spirit of inquiry, the critical thinkers, those removed from industry those whose questions led to the development of mathematics and science... They have moved them into the basement. So they can fit teams of 'support workers' into more prominent offices.
The academy is well and truly dead. Universities are profit centres, now. So are health systems, who are we kidding. There are people within... But they are getting on, now... And the system is doing whatever it can to grind them down for making everybody else look bad.
It's a pretty horrible world. I see why people are patrons of the arts and how important artists are for our humanity and for keeping alive our sense of wonder and creativity and delight and fun. When those people aren't happy... The world is a very sick place indeed.
I have to write this stupid f*ck*ng report thing for people who are too stupid to read academic articles. They are too f*ck*ng stupid to write a clear statement of what we are supposed to do and let us get on in doing it. Micromanagement... replacing typo with typo and confused instruction with confused instruction. I f*ck*ng hate it.
There is no critical thinking... There was this thing about how the natives didn't seem capable of thinking critically. But then something about how that was a socio-cultural bias. They were asked to do modus tollens on something they had never seen or heard of. Apparently it was against their cultural belief to speculate on things neither seen nor heard so it was more that they were opting out. Mmm hmm. I don't buy it anymore.
What the chief says goes because they are the chief. Similarly... That's the deal with a doctor. It makes the population... Extremely manipulable. Put an actor in a white coat and tell them what to do... They would exterminate their own, oh yes most of them would. Why? Becuase they are people, just like everyone else. And most people are f*ck*ng horrible psychopaths, oh yes, they are. Only around 1/2 a class of ethicists think that one should be moral for no other reason than that it is the right thing to do... The other half think it is solely about how you appear in the eyes of others / making it more likely others will treat you better. Only 1/2 of a class of people who voluntarily enroll in a class on ethics have a sense of morality. Think about all thos epeople who aren't intereted enough to enroll in a class... The majority of people in the world don't have a sense of morality. Only in looking out for themselves to the detriment of others (when they can get away with it).
I do dthink I would be a lot happier if I could get awy from people such as these.
"you are on earth. there's no cure for that'.
beckett. endgame. take that 'wrong planet'. you think the guy is horrible because when someone came to him and asked him for light (and he had light) he didn't give it. So the person died of lack of light. But he points out that the person had light before and cried and cried for dark. Then it got dark and they kept on crying.
Or the peasant who came and cried for food. For self. He offered him employment. He asked for his infant son to come with. He said no. Mean man. He pointed out that the infant knows nothing but suffering. He wanted the infant to stay alive so the infant would go on to look after him.
an infant cries at night... keeps the guy awake. the guy tries to console the infant but he can't. he can't do anything to help it. but the infant won't stop. so he had to move out of earreach...
beckett is... i got into that round the time i first got sick. i thought i might have a handle on how to... see things helpfully now...
but your on earth. there's no cure fro that.
i can't function in your environment. that's how come our skilled graduates leave. it really isn't about the money. it is about people going on and on and on and on and on about how it IS about the money. the ones who stay... they are all about how people leave because they get more money overseas. that's not it. not really. most people really genuinely do want to stay and help things be better here. when people are young they have itchy feet and want to see something of the world for sure. but when people are older moving is a f*ck*ng hassle and an expense and so really why would you? what the hell would motivate you to move if things were basically okay where you were?
the problem is that the people who ARE here seem determined to grind them down. seem not content until everyone is precisely equal and everybody has nothing. only that isn't it. it is more about grinding other people down so they are above them in their imaginary f*ck*ng hierarchy. power is... something to be squandered. there simply isn't a sense in giving power to the people who are competent to make things better for everyone. there is just this selfishness... hurting in the name of 'helping'.
it is the problem the world over, i suppose.
i suppose we are in a relatively unique position... being the least developed of the developed nations or the most developed of the developing nations... however you want to view that. and a relatively small nation... the 'improvements' in the economy... seem to make the division of wealth more divided, though.
cars come in... food goes out. kids here go hungry. i guess we (in the city) are so close to the port that if you get the food this far you may as well ship it out. and we get cheap candy bars etc etc that get shipped in... too much of a pain to trek them about the country... give them to the young people in the city... their bodies can handle it for a few years before they get to go on to other places... where's the harm?
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