April 29, 2024 - Personal blog of Rick Giles

Beyond Learned Helplessness

By NZB3

Anarchists are opposed to the Noble Lie (Plato,) the treating of people as Means to an End (Kant.) We want people to be actors in their own lives, creators of their own character, masters of their own destiny. We don’t want you to be People Farmed by rulers who think they know what’s best for […]

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November 21, 2020

“Stop Using Other’s Cultures To Fill Up Your Empty White Settler Soul”

By NZB3

This meme (left) is Invariably shared and probably created by Victimhood Culture folks. Their full-time concern is taking over the perceived fights and plights of people and entire cultures they perceive as ‘victims’. Their self-identity is as a white savoir who has come to the rescue of minorities etc. The implicit but unconscious fact of […]

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November 17, 2020

COVID Seen, Poverty Unseen

By NZB3

In economics we have this problem called ‘the seen and the unseen.’ Folks tend to focus on immediate effects and will put processes and even slow avalanches in place to fix the ‘now’ at the cost of our well-being in the longer term. Usually that’s a natural inclination to be resisted. But then, add in […]

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November 15, 2020

Where’s My Dementia Money?

By NZB3

Why would the government, Labour 6.0, cut funding for brain research into dementia prevention? At a time where we have an ageing population (the Boomers are getting pretty up there now) it makes sense to spend money preventing the many and expensive health ills coming down the mountain. When it comes to bodies, old folks […]

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November 14, 2020