Posted by alexandra_k on March 10, 2016, at 1:32:05
In reply to Re: Dr Bob??, posted by alexandra_k on March 10, 2016, at 0:58:38
> Otherwise... For locals... I'm starting to get the sense that... There is a local interest in selecting local candidates who will scrape through the Australasian accreditation process such that they will take the bottom of the food chain positions here in NZ. The best positions in NZ will (of course) go to Australian graduates (who don't quite make positions in Sydney or Melbourne or wherever). Basically... Out of reach of the NZ grads. Pretty sure...
Okay. And so one response you might have to that is: F*ck you! We don't want to be part of your accreditation system anymore! We want autonomy and independence!
And... As in the law case: If you were capable of passing laws / making medical decisions that actually benefited your local populations (across time) then: that would be true..
But unfortunately...
And how much duty of care do we feel to save y'all from yourselves, again????
It starts to wear thin... I get that... But little more help is needed so people *can tell the difference* in which case you can trust their selection process...
I mean if I (as an example) can be selected for top 3 program in the world for Philosophy of mind / biology / cognitive science can't even get more than 30% for first year population health papers... Something is wrong (and probably not for me)...
Part of the problem is that people are selecting for / putting forwards the WRONG CANDIDATES. Because they don't understand what skills are valuable later. partly because they never managed to get those skills themselves... But the real problem is when they are incapable of identifying those kids / skills when they see them.
I suspect the Maaori kids who are most likely to flourish in modern western society... Are lost to 'cot death'. Aka: They are either shaken or ignored because they failed to respond 'appropriately' to Maaori culture. Aka: They are kids who delighted in being left alone; kids who got upset in response to 'over-stimulation' / constant stimulation by other people. Like those locusts... The 'solitary locusts' who didn't have their hind legs stimulated by overcrowring / paintbushed grad students vs the 'gregarious locusts' who were constantly stimulated by others... Who have a tendancy to be 'pro-social' in constantly seeking the company of others (aka: antisocial swarming behaviour....)
If we are 'cut loose' from the Australian medical system... We have been cut loose, indeed...
That will make me very sad...
It seems to me that we are only willing to put forward candiates we are fairly sure the Australian system will reject... Because we think those they will accept won't stay here voluntarily. We say they leave 'for the money'. But the fact is: It isn't about the money. The fact is: It is about everything other than the money (though the money required such that one doesn't have to listen to people squealing and yelling and whooping and demanding attention 24/7 on demand) is considerable... If one wants a location to live in the world such that one doesn't have to listen to the late night antics of drug dealers and party goers and students who are going to blow off their classes and dole bludgers who don't have any committments at all.... If one wants a location where one can get a good nights sleep so as to be functional and alert the next day (and not hung-over or under the effects of mj or other readily prescribed sedatives...) then one needs...
More than one is earning now...
Just enough to feel sociopathic towards all of those people who prevent...
Such that one needs to be rich enough to be...
Unaffected by them.
By their decision to (noisily) climb fences they shouldn't at 12 or at 1 or at 2 or at3 or at 4...
Or just to have their own kids screaming at 11 or 12 or 1 or 2 or 3 because they are too drunk or high to attend to them...I hate this country the more I'm in it.
Central Auckland.
And I see how people live in Remuera. And even more 'humble' (mansions) in ponsonby...
And I just f*ck*ng hate this country.
I hate it.
I do.
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