If you were to flee NZ for greener pastures…

November 3, 2021

By NZB3

Question: If you were to flee New Zealand for greener pastures where would you go?

If you recognise that you need a country of your own to fight for and keep then the best one to start with is the Home you already have.

The revelation that you already have a home territory might take a while to come. So you go on an ‘OE’ Hero’s Journey into the desert wilderness for however long that takes. Then, you come Home and bring your revelation with you to benefit those you left behind.

The Anarchist doesn’t ‘flee’ to ‘graze’ someone else’s ‘pastures’ in someone else’s country. We don’t shop countries for freedom someone else won and hope they’ll keep taking risks to win us some more. That’s being a burden. A liberty tourist.

“When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But at last his heart changed…Lo! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that hath gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it. I would fain bestow and distribute, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches. Therefore must I descend into the deep…Zarathustra is again going to be a man. Thus began Zarathustra’s down-going.” – Neitzsche

“There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows. The thick wood is not just at our door, nor the pond, but somewhat is always clearing, familiar and worn by us, appropriated and fenced in some way, and reclaimed from Nature.” – Thoreau

Doesn’t much matter where you go to anaesthetise yourself as a refugee. Live on a boat on the Queensland coast where there is booze and low-IQ women. That’s depression.

A Hero’s Quest is another matter. Choose a place to go that’s a wilderness. There are natural as well as urban places for the Nomad to go; It needn’t be Alaskan tundra. You learn what you need to learn then you go Home and join the fight for your values.

So where you go really depends on who you want to be. A pasture-grazer, a taker, who flees his problems? Or a hero who needs to withdraw in order to build himself?

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Ref. Matthew 4:1-11

Ref. Into The Wild (2007)

Ref. The Hero’s Journey, Joseph Campbell (1990)

Ref. Jordan Peterson: The Hero’s Journey in Carl Jung’s Psychoanalysis

Ref. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Friedrich Nietzsche (1883)