Posted by alexandra_k on August 19, 2018, at 0:27:29
In reply to Re: balance of power » alexandra_k, posted by beckett2 on August 18, 2018, at 22:52:10
> Is NZ culturally isolated?
I'm not sure what that means / how to answer that.
I think that if you moved here from the US there are a lot of things that you would miss.
We don't have proper seasons. And our seasons are out of synch with our holidays so our holidays aren't there when we need them and there are long stretches of tedium in the year with nothing to break that up. And then things like movie release dates and televion series start and end dates and a whole heap besides don't really make any sense, anymore.
There's a routine, or familiarity in all of that that just works in the US. Thanksgiving. Superbowl. Stuff like that. There's a more... Routine... Way of going about things. People are more on schedules. Better organisation. It is clearer what is expected of you and when and so on. Even rules around dating and so on.
There is more freedom here. But that is because of a lack of organisation or a lack of structure.
I do think some of it is important. I was watching the swimmers, again, and their coach told them to swim their favorite stroke... Backwards. And they sort of collapsed for a while off task. And then sort of started making progress. After a few lengths they were looking quite a bit better. I could tell what they were up to, at least. Swimming backstroke and freestyle and breaststroke and butterfly feet first.
They probably hadn't felt like their bodies didn't know how to move to acomplish what they were trying to do in the pool since... They were about 4, or something.
There certainly seemed to be a renewed... Enthusiasm... For swimming the other way around, after that drill.
Freeplay and time for fun is important, yeah. But so is structure. Learning to persist and that steady wins the race and so on. I think NZ often gets things too much on the side of freedom. It's just more irony that we tell poor people. At least they are free. Free to not learn anything they like. Free to do anything they like so long as it isn't structured swimming after school or physics or chemistry or mathematics... So long as it does't involve reading, writing, or arithmetic...
> We had a friend from NZ, and he never wanted to return with his kids. I was nonplussed because I think of it as a little paradise (although I've never been).
Marketing.
There are some nice things here. There are some nice things most places.
> Ah, also, I thought your new PM was a positive change, but again, I don't really know.
She is better than the last guy, but that isn't saying much. Like how it would be hard to do the same or worse than Trump haha.
> Earlier today, under friendly circumstances, I told someone I didn't want to blemish the purity of their ignorance.
We've marketed that, too. The whole... I don't even remember what it was called... The two kiwi guys trying to make it big in New York comedy tv show thing.
That's the brand of innocence...
That you have promoting vaping - because at least it's not tobacco - right? Or promoting breeding the Ax proteins out of our cows - because we couldn't find a lucrative use for them - right?
Innocence... Or psychopathy... so innocent... they know not what they do. big eyes. awwwww. no jury would convict that. you have to *look* a certain way, for that. unappealling.
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