Posted by alexandra_k on March 10, 2016, at 0:35:13
In reply to Re: Dr Bob??, posted by alexandra_k on March 10, 2016, at 0:18:07
So... The medical school here is accredited with the australasian whatever until 2022. Or something like that. I guess that is one of the things that frightens me...
I have come to realise that NZ basically is a 'southernmost territory' of Australia. NZ'ers joke about how they offered and we didn't accept and so on... But the fact is that we are lucky if they see things that way (if they feel duty of care towards us). Without that...
I fear that we have in fact been sold to the highest bidder.
That our politicians have in fact sold us out to the highest bidder. I honestly do think... That that is what has happened.
They have been... Totally intimidated on the world stage... And... The western world... Doesn't feel duty of care towards us. I suspect that is the truth of it. The whole England thing... They sort of tell us that it is about England interfering with things over here... But the reality of the situation is that England has had this sort of duty to look after colonies for a while now... And I think they would be fairly stoked if we would look after ourselves (e.g., not try things through their courts at their expense)... But we have simply lacked the expertise...
And I see that. Reading government documents... Reports on various things. Reports that have been commissioned on looking into various social problems... Genuinely... There is a social problem (which nobody would deny) and who are the parties that have a legitimate stake in the issue and what are their interests and what should we do given constraints and competing interests and so on... And some of those Australian reports read pretty f*ck*ng well. By researchers who have genuine intellectual curiosity and who are trying to portray things (and people) as honestly and fairly as they can...
And ours just read like someone shoved the question into the post-modernist essay generator. And the thing is that people here don't seem able to tell the difference. That is what is so f*ck*ng scary to me. That people can't f*ck*ng tell the difference.
What do you do? What can you do? When those in power can't tell the f*ck*ng difference?
Anyway...
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