This blogger details the issues of unions in the sorry saga of the Hobbit-does-New Zealand and other smash NZ hits very well at Reading the Maps.
If you like to read well constructed opinion, get thee hence!
Thursday, October 28, 2010
An unholy union
This blogger details the issues of unions in the sorry saga of the Hobbit-does-New Zealand and other smash NZ hits very well at Reading the Maps.
If you like to read well constructed opinion, get thee hence!
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It is better to fight for a good cause using flawed tactics than to sit on the sidelines and see the bad guys and girls win.
I have huge issues with that closing statement.
He identifies the flaws of previous activism and just when he should have said "we should learn from these mistakes" he breaks into a preachy tone about supporting the leadership that would make any Pentecostal minister proud.
If one is aware of the flawed tactics of leadership and then puts the blame squarely on the "followers" I am sorry, but that leadership is illegitimate and needs to go.
This is so much like the: "you can't speak against Gods anointed" that many Christian leaders use it is not funny!!
I am not into supporting flawed leadership, there is actually a time when people can rightly demand humility from those that claim to lead us.
The bad guys will exploit every opportunity that weak leadership gives them!
Frodo wouldn't have stood for that shit
Good luck with getting sworn in today
This was good - (from the article)
"The answer lies, I think, in the erosion of traditional sorts of class consciousness in New Zealand in recent decades, and the widespread adoption of a very voluntarist approach to politics, where individual issues are examined in isolation from any structural and historical context. A whole generation has grown up thinking that opinions can and should be worn and discarded as easily as clothes, and that it is horrific for an individual to have to help to implement tactics or a strategy with which he or she disagrees. Old socialist slogans like 'march separately, strike together' and 'diversity of opinions, unity of action' seem suddenly ridiculous in the era of facebook polls and debate-by-twitter."
And thanks for the well-wishin'
So what he is bemoaning is the fact that there is now more equality and therefore less requirement for union activism?
Perhaps people would be happy to engage in "unity of action" if that action was actually discussed with them first.
I don't believe that blind trust towards union leaders, church leaders or any other leaders is productive.
Don't you see the danger Robert?
I am trying to understand why people are so upset over this issue.
maybe I just don't have the perspective others do because of my age.
I really don't get it Robert, I'm not just being argumentative.
Sorry if my tone was off a bit.
It's so quiet here! (except for that tumble weed that blew across the thread a few minutes ago)
I've been all at sea. I'll attend to you in a moment you impatient young man :-)
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