History. Good stuff is history and one of its appeals to me is that in its purest from it is just bland fact and there should be nothing you can do to it. It is never that simple of course. Just ask any Japanese school kid what Nanking was famous for and you will probably be told noodles. It would appear that there is a move afoot to radically change the way history is taught in the Peoples Republic of Aoteoroa. The community is to have an input into what is in the local school's history curriculum. Now pick yourself off the floor - unless my eyes were decieving me this is what it said. There are worries from some quarters that this could lead to a distortion (surely not) and that, for instance, a local area could choose not teach not teach the Treaty in its classes. My worry would be that they would choose to teach nothing but the Treaty. This aside the whole idea is just nuts. How would it be assessed? External assessment would become impossible. We would then fall back on totally internal assessment and it would not be long before Titirangi would be known only for its noodles. The education system is suffering enough under the strain of a poorly implemented NCEA system without this crap.
The history graduate of greatest prominence in the land currently (mis)manages the country's finances. To pretend that he has no influence over Bollard is surely just that, a pretence. He sits idly by and watches our Alan piss in the wind? I don't think so. Bollard is taking a knife to the gunfight of international currency dealing. The, for example, Japanese currency dealers could see off his paltry war chest in under a week and he knows this. Why does he continue farting around then? I would imagine Bollard is not stupid and you don't become Governor of the Reserve Bank without being at least moderately good at hard sums. I can only imagine that he is being strongly advised by someone who thinks the only thing ever to have happened in Nanking was noodle manufacture. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect a different result from your actions. Cullen is insane.
As are the rest of his mates. Thursday is Garth George day and it would appear my mate is as bereft of ideas as I am. He spends his entire column cataloguing how the country has gone downhill since 1999 when Helen and her cadres installed themselves in our lives. The list of deterioration is almost endless. He quite rightly points out that their only solution to our woes is more of the policies that have got us where we are now. Insanity by the definition outlined above.
Just to really depress one there are two pieces featuring Sue Bradford - complete with a picture of her wearing her 'victim' visage for God's sake. If you want confirmation of the harm that is being done to the country by those who currently hold sway in the Beehive you need look no further than Ms Bradford.
I was in a reasonable mood ten minutes ago - I think I'll go and cast myself off the Harbour Bridge.
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