Victims of Social Engineering

I never imagined seeing the day New Zealanders so easily capitulated to the demands of socialism. New Zealand stands at a crossroads of political, cultural, and social disorder, where liberties and freedoms are being taken with little resistance. We're told these measures are temporary and the economy is better than anticipated, yet the damage is clear in all areas of society and highlighted as economic constraints continue unabated. Could it be that those in charge are taking advantage of a pandemic to advance social reforms that most see, but appear unwilling to confront? Right now the pandemic itself is somewhat irrelevant, as the conversation divides into those who worship the woman who claims to be all truth and those who see the empress with no clothes. The language surrounding the young, the vulnerable, rights and freedoms, cultural activism, the unvaccinated, and now the enforcement of mandates, are far more dangerous to the fabric of civil society. No one benefits from engineering equality of outcomes, it is ideological theft, ask those in Venezuela. Those who consciously reduce themselves to victims within a free and democratic society are at best naïve but refuse to acknowledge that rights come with responsibility, and as a consequence will likely suffer more under any form of socialism because equal outcomes for all, is an illusion created by greed and power. Under the guise of a pandemic, the mother of truth has facilitated division within New Zealand society, and the undertones of resentment simmer across many conversations. 

Ronald Reagan once said: "The situation in world politics today might be seen as the battle between two extreme ideological views contending for social and political domination. At one end we have Fascist political extremists and the other Leftist political extremists, otherwise known as the extremes of Socialism and Fascism. The ideological outcomes of both are directed towards Communism. Between these two extremes lays a broad spectrum of conservative liberals and conservative traditionalists who hold in check what might be viewed as the moral and ethical compass that prevents civil society from spiralling into self-destruction. Both need each other to maintain a balance that prevents the two extremes from asserting control over humankind's right to exercise free will".

Social interaction is often agitated to the point of hostility, and I wonder where the team of five million went. It would seem that all the talk of caring for each other has ended with the introduction of authoritarian control mandates against those unwilling to submit to the source of all truth. Media bias fuels this public outrage, while the source of all truth gathers its victims and soothes their outrage with utopic hopes that never materialize. Lockdowns have become safe places for those who revel in isolation dysphoria, and the denial of freedoms a type of righteous self-flagellation, that provides security to those with little else to live for. Unfortunately, it also exposes the worst elements of the human condition, as the mob is consumed with self-preservation and rallies around the source of all truth to pimp and tell. This lunacy may well escalate as the economy contracts over the coming months, Covid will continue to spread, and even overtake the vaccinated, inflation will bite the hand that feeds it, unemployment will likely rise, businesses will close, and a general sense of helplessness will numb the senses of those struggling to fathom how all this happened. Radio hosts such as Mike Hosking and Kerre McIvor, along with others, are reduced to petulant behaviour, scornful of anyone with a contrary opinion, even contemptuous of the conversation itself. Their words of disdain mock the rights and freedoms they vehemently uphold in any other circumstance. Is their petulant need to travel a valid reason for mocking those who disagree? Liberal tolerance it would seem, only applies as long as it doesn’t affect their vanities. I’m dismayed by the degree of self-consuming narcissism that intelligent people are reduced to.

Every step in managing this pandemic has been identified and predicated on the capability of hospitals to handle the most extreme demands that might be placed on the health system, nothing else. Why couldn't those in authority keep this as the focus? Instead, we've been controlled by lockdowns, never used to manage a pandemic in the past. Highly subjective modelling has been wrong time and again; continuously overstating death and infection rates to support the possibility of hospitals being overloaded. The focus should have been on preparing facilities and introducing treatments for the symptomatic, not hypothetical modelling that invariably proves incorrect. Available treatments have been ignored, mocked, and aggressively denounced even though international recognition suggested otherwise. The solutions have arguably caused greater harm to New Zealand than the pandemic itself.

The narrative surrounding this pandemic has been masterful I have to admit, and the use of phrases such as "go hard go early" and "team of four million" might have comforted those with little foresight, but it's predominantly spin, lies, and contradictions. The truth has become difficult to establish because it’s become as unbelievable as the “sole source of truth” herself. Transparency is little more than clickbait for politicians to spin their way around issues of the unvaccinated, masking, social distancing, lockdowns, and now the unprecedented mandating of control over people’s lives, careers, and businesses. All predicated on how do we control a population, while we figure it out? However, the ultimate travesty is the removal of our right to make informed and free decisions. The ramifications of this will set a precedent we may regret, and the precedent could have far more insidious intent.