New Zealanders are dependent on and also obsessional about globalism. This is a bow with two particular strings, the first of which is international trade.
What ‘international trade’ really entails is sourcing and importing vast quantities of cheaply produced shoddy plastic goods from the People’s Republic of China in order to create the false impression that our Consumer Price Index is under control and our sovereign currency, awash with fiat money, has not been massively devalued in real terms by prolonged periods of quantitative easing when, in fact, it has.
The reverse of this presupposes that we might pay back some debt by feeding the world with agricultural produce. This looks increasingly unlikely under a Labour/Greens government. Speaking about “dirty dairy,” this week, Jacinda Ardern said that it “feels to me like a view of the world that has passed”. The concept of an agriculture-led economy is held by the left’s religious environmental ideologues to be a massive conceit, which Labour/Green policy will quench.
The second part of the unenviable equation is immigration, which we rely upon because vast numbers of New Zealanders either are too aggrieved or too stoned on recreational narcotics to participate economically. Now that we are all holders of NCEAs in diversity and Maori dance, and have university degrees in gender studies, sociology, psychology and women’s studies, those who may encounter a fleeting desire to work often find that they don’t have the skills required to participate in areas of demand, such as, horticulture, dairy farming or engineering.
We, therefore, require immigrants to do those things for us which we ought to be able to do ourselves; a phenomenon known in social philosophy as the Greek Curse. It is ironic that we should still find ourselves attached to anything Greek, so determined are we to abandon Western civilisation and sacrifice all inherited values on the altar of multiculturalism.
And yet the more the left devalues education by employing it as a device for indoctrination and a tool of social control via enforced ‘groupthink’, the more inflated the problem becomes. The Greek Curse is this: that we value supposed ‘academic knowledge’ more than its practical application, and therefore nobody wishes to do manual labour. We all want to work in ‘services’. No one is willing to expend physical energy in order to produce anything practicable because to do so is beneath them.
Immigrants are the answer, and the more heterogenous they are the better. Urban immigrants are busy grafting their extraneous cultures onto government departments and swelling the ranks of our town councils. While most New Zealanders are happy that we are no longer a recognisably Christian nation, many are blissfully unaware that we are perhaps only twenty years or so behind perfidious Albion in growing our Muslim population.
Adding to our propensity for globalism is the West’s predilection for holidaying in ‘exotic’ places, where we spend just enough money to facilitate the continuing migration to our shores of their brightest and best, leaving behind residual populations dependent on foreign aid (which we also finance).
It would be naïve to think that any of this will change even if, as we hope, the government changes in November. National are just as ‘internationalist’ as Labour. We will remain, for the foreseeable future, maniacal globalists intent on committing societal hara-kiri.
It is odd, really, that we are so reticent about all of this. But the media and political class are, as ever, afraid to tell the truth. Perhaps because the details rankle.
While the overwhelming majority of New Zealanders have been confined to their homes since May this year, 50,000 people have made their way through our managed isolation facilities. That’s more than the population of Nelson; a number almost equivalent to the populations of Rotorua, Whangarei or New Plymouth. Can it really be true that so many people have been internationally mobile when so many others are under curfew?
A very high percentage of the people who are our quarantine ‘guests’ appear to be from the Indian subcontinent and are there because we continue to award them residents’ visas. This is the visible manifestation of the on-going quiet revolution to irrevocably change the face of our society, and it grinds ever onwards because, until recently, quarantine was 100 per cent taxpayer-funded and thus ‘free’ to the user.
So managed isolation facilities have been packed with arrivals from India, which is currently experiencing 90,000 new cases of COVID-19 per day. That risk doesn’t look set to change. And we compulsively desire business dealings with China and to get back to our cheap foreign holidays. These things won’t change in the long term either.
Ten hours on a plane breathing other people’s expelled gases is, after all, a small price to pay, we think, to ensure that this slick, globalised, socialist ‘modernity’ continues unabated. Despite being on the brink of disestablishing ourselves as a Western nation through subjugation to doctrinarian Marxist intersectionality, we love the new ‘diversity’ and we actually want more, please.
It is for this reason that COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions here, and throughout the Western world, have failed. Globalism can’t be contained and won’t be contained.
And it is for this same reason that lockdowns and restrictions on civilian life will continue into the foreseeable future. COVID-19 has become our Banquo’s Ghost, a manifestation of our post-modern anguish, and of our guilt and social fears. So psychologically dependent have we become on ‘global solutions’ that we can’t even see what the immediate future obviously holds in store.
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