“Don’t fall for the division”

September 15, 2025

By NZB3

Interesting way of putting things from Mike Vincent here…

"Our people are being assassinated, but sit
back and relax - don't fall for the division
that they want to create"

This posits the world as two factions.

One acts, the other reacts. Or- refrains from acting.

For simplicity sake let’s call the active group Leftists. Their actions include race-based privileges, diversity quotas, two-tier justice, changing place names, killing historical heroes, cancelling, deplatforming. They take away the pair bond, the nuclear family, the institution of marriage, sex-based pronouns. They even take away the ideas of men and women per se and demand society recognise that men can have a period and fall pregnant.

Then there is the reactive group. Let’s just call them Conservative because, after all, their main function is to be the breaks on this vehicle. Yet most of the time, especially these days, they refrain from acting this way. They don’t draw the line. They appease. They give in. They surrender. After all, it keeps the peace.

Reminds me of that old thing about inflation being like having a ‘Tiger by the tail’. While you got the tail you’re safe. But the longer you hold the tail the more pissed off the tiger is so the eventual confrontation will be more spectacular.

Reminds me also of that famous Star Trek line:  Too many retreats. They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back. Not again! The line must be drawn. This far! No further!

So, everything without strong roots is blown away by the Woke Winds. So many examples. Heroes who lasted 100 years:  Sir Walter Raleigh, Admiral Horatio Nelson, Sir Martin Frobisher and Sir Francis Drake were all cancelled. Place names like Mt Egmont or even New Zealand itself replaced (Aotearoa.) Real Estate agents fired for not taking compulsory Maori re-education. Captain James Cook’s statues and monuments removed. Hamilton’s Hamilton statue given up because an activist with a hammer demanded it. We could make a very long list in New Zealand as well as overseas where statues seated for generations have been torn out. And we fall back.

Killing Charlie Kirk is only the latest in a long list of crossing lines. It was an action of the Left. Not just the shooting but, in particular, the consent and even satisfaction with the killing was the action of the Left. Next it’s the Conservative’s turn to play the game. Does he React or Refrain From Reaction? Does he Conserve or does he Refrain from Conserving? Is killing Charlie OK or not? Was that the line that should not be crossed or shall we go another round? As I wrote in my previous post I think we hit a line this time. But, let’s not underestimate the Conservatives ability to refrain from standing up for their values a bit longer. It takes a long time. “They were not easily moved, They were icy — willing to wait Till every count should be proved, Ere the Saxon began to hate.”

Where am I going with this? Well, it’s a good jumping off point for an idea I’ve had a long time which must have occurred to others though I’ve never seen it put. (Maybe I should have read more Hegel?)

This dialectic, back and forth, between Conservative and Leftist is generative. It stops society from being static. Over generations, at a macro-historic level, the above mechanism is how we change. It’s the health of our society. The Leftist might like to have it all their own way and pull down every institution but that would be entropy. Or, the Conservative might quite like to conserve everything as it is forever but that would be sterile. What we really need is a back-and-forth mechanism between the 2 parts of society to find the new best way to live. It’s an iterative process we’re feeling out all the time, over and over.

Eventually the Conservatives will face the tiger and put a stop to the Leftist’s changes. Shut them up for years to come until, eventually, they start up again.

Ah, but when the Conservatives do that they will not be taking our mores and values, place names, statues, etc. backward to 1955. Many of the changes the Left have made will stick. Ideas like, say, child labor laws or women’s suffrage are here to stay now and part of the new version of what is to be Conserved. Some of the values or even physical statues might be retrieved from the rubbish skip or put back together again. Some of the books, songs, movies will be un-cancelled. I’m sure that DNA scientist James Watson will be un-cancelled in due course but he may not live long enough to see it. But many of these ‘lines’ or ‘fights’ have been surrendered and nobody will bother going back for them. Mt Hutt ski field owed a great debt to Willi Huber but years after the fact his contribution was redacted because of his war record; Cancelled. Probably a good example of what will not be restored when the Woke Winds abate.

For most of the time our society is stable. Decided. Fixed. Certain. Clear. Functional.

Right now, though, we are being pushed into change by the agents who live to change things and break things. Disrupt everything. But they are not in control. The Conservatives are always in control in their choice to conserve or to refrain from conserving. The Left are trying to change as much as they can as fast as they can because they sense that we are coming to the end of the great restraining effort.

New Zealand, and the world, is soon to reach a crisis point where we decide for another 80 years or so which changes we are going to keep and which ones have gone too far. I am fairly sure that killing people like Charlie Kirk is the overplaying of the Leftist’s hand.

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Note: Antagonistic pairs are found in nature and most commonly discussed in terms of how the muscles in your body work; Bicep/tricep. Why not suppose that culture works the same way? Anarkiwi, Facebook

Note: “Neil Brown, who helped persuade the skating federation to agree new rules, referring to ice dance partners as Skater A and Skater B instead of man and woman.” – British ice dancer and same-sex skating partner to compete in Finland after rule change, Guardian (2025)

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