Posted by alexandra_k on May 19, 2018, at 19:17:55
In reply to Re: don't know what's wrong, posted by sigismund on May 19, 2018, at 18:34:14
It appears less militarised because there aren't really any people, here.
One of the reasons why you don't want people doing research is because they get to manage their own time. If you get to manage your own time you can avoid peak hour rush. If you get to avoid peak hour rush then you get to see how this place is practically an empty wasteland. I mean, around the university. Around the centre of Auckland. The roads are nearly empty outside the artifically constructed peak hours. Even in Auckland. Empty lecture theatres, even, all locked up so people won't notice how empty they are...
I think the previous government fooled people to invest in infrastructure because they were obsessed with population growth being the solution to everything... Only, what that did was increase the proportion of poor illiterate people etc.
We had these horrible cheap accommodation buildings (that got around building law restrictions on minimum size of apartments and so on) because they were only supposed to be temporary for students... We got all that stuff built because we marketed ourself as having legitimate universities that had world rankes status and a clean green environment with lots of outdoorsy things like Lord of Rings scenery and ski mountains and water sports...
But the students and tourists come and see for themselves how filthy things are... How we won't even blind grade their work... How we treat them like cattle... They go home and spread the word so now our numbers of studnet tourists are down...
So now the empty spaces... Well... We are trying to herd a greater and greater and greater proportion of kids through these public universities... But it is hard to teach kids who didn't learn reading writing or arithmetic at school and our drinking age is 18 so you have these alpha, beta, gamma, residential halls where people are allowed to do more or less work depending on the quality of the tutors...
> >This whole country is a f*ck*ng refugee camp on the edge of the free world.
> I really like it in comparison to here. We should apply to be the Eastern State of NZ.Maybe you aren't locked out of things in Australia? I don't know. All I know is that here I'm locked out of what I want to do (and what I've worked hard to do). That the people who are in charge of me are... Mostly mercenaries, really. I'm supposed to suck up to them to make them want to help me... But, really, I'm not a suck up. Never have been. Their goal is to... Ruin people for civilised society. The only way... Through... Them is being accepted to the alpha hall in the first place... Or fighting a bit for hierarchical position in a beta hall... Or... Being popular in a gamma hall primed to collect the samples and give the shots...
There's something toxic about the world that i see...
> Sounds like a sudden drop. I thought it was God, Queen, Archbishop of Canterbury and down from there, which left unexplained the pope (in Italy?) not to speak of the Orthodox (of whom we knew nothing). OTOH I had a fair bit of contact with high level surgeons recently and they are different.I meant the hierarchy of health systems. That's the view of it. Being a surgeon isn't like being a tennis player or a mechanic... It isn't about learning a skill and working hard on the skill and coming to be the best at it over time. It is about teh position being bestowed upon one by God such that those around you are powerless to prevent your inevitable fate. That is what the marketing is. So there is no point trying or wanting to be one.
It's just... Psychopaths...
It's mostly... Shiny things. Trying to divert anyone whose attention can be diverted.
I am aware that people think I enjoy arguing things round and round with people who lack the cognitive capacity to speak meaningful English. But actually I don't enjoy that, at all.
I don't know how much more removed from people I can actually be, than what it is I actually am. I don't know how much more loudly I can say 'don't try and keep me with you and your research group because I really really really really don't wnat to stay' without their just wishing I'd f*ck off an die. I mean... Liberation? Why would you want to set something free? There's just mercenaries in charge of the varmin... That's all I see...
And that's hard in a world where people are interested in targeting solitary indivdiuals -- because they are easy pickings.
Locked out from anything else.
> >Student residential halls are the prision camps... The concentration camps of today. This whole country is a f*ck*ng refugee camp on the edge of the free world.
>
> NZ must have the grace to put their refugees inside the country, unlike here (Manus, Nauru). I like your PM. We don't have many nice people in politics, just a few.That's the thing... Inside the country / outside the country. There are two worlds in New Zealand. You don't see the world the undergraduates live in.
It's supposed to motivate them to work hard (if they have the capcity to work instead of being side-tracked / hijacked by those around them with nothing to lose / who have been persuaded to believe they have nothing to lose...
It's an elaborate hoax to get people to accept whatever is doled out to them with respect to what program they get entry into. The illusion of a level playing field from first year (people are sorted into their residential halls).
> I accept the tents of Liberalism (free market, social protection, independent judiciary etc) but it was easier to arrange in the new world rather than the old with all that new land.
Hmm.
There were more problems for our immigrants up north. People come and build fences to keep their flocks / herds together. Maaori rip down the fences and take things. Being mischevious. Food was plentiful enough for subsistence and the climate was temperate enough for temporary shelters so one could play at hitting people from neighbouring tribes with paddles and so on... The idea of building up a surplus for storage... I don't think there was that. Apparently there were planting calenders.... But the kumara plantation sites I've seen looked more like throw your left / overs / inedible scraps down the hill and that's where your trash ends up, to me. mischevious... constant auditory contact. cooing and yipping and yelling over distances. attention focused on people and worrying about where the bullies are and hiding away from them and so on...
so land wars when people start trying to produce a surplus for storage or sending back to the mother land... how to protect things when previously things were simply there for the taking...
down south there weren't as many maaori because it was much colder. there haven't been as many. they are coming here now, though. this university is the only university (apparently) without a Marae. they are talking about building one, now. the number (also proportion) of maaori at this university increased last year. it got to the point they felt obligated to actually fill their government funded quota of maaori for medicine, even. less international students so that means more accommodation etc available for local students.
then the trouble is that people don't get the immersion expereince that offers them hope for a better life.
we don't want that experience, anyway, right.
worst thing that happened for me was getting to Canberra to see how the people lived...
not all of the people... i bused to the suburbs and saw the kids with knives on the buses...
the difference is in whether you are locked out, or included.
i was included in canberra. i was included in north carolina.
i am not invluded in new zealand.
they want me to do philosophy / politics.
they don't need me to do philosophy / politics. any undergraduate can copy-paste and kludge together what people have developed from overseas.
nothing new needs to be done when you are running so very far behind all the other developed nations. all we need to do is stop trying to reinvent the axle and speed things up with the benefit of what's gone before.
anyway...
nobody listens to me, here.
at least i've learned why so much of my life has been spent wishing i'd never been born.
i do think this country owes me.
especially when you consider how very f*ck*ng well they are willing ot treat their psychopaths.
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