KIM HILL: What is Wrong With New Zealand?

Listened to Kim Hill slugging it out with David Skilling on RNZ last night.
Funny how when things and times are not so hot then everybody thinks they can become an expert on economics.
David Skilling made the excellent observation about the disjunction between the individual and the collective.
Yes well there is one problem.
The collective is composed of posers.
Devoid of all wit, nous or imagination.
All the smarties leave and the posers remain.
No wonder the individual doesn't want to get involved with people who are insular, have narrow foci and are determined to keep everyone else out.
Ho Hum.
You got it there in one.
 The core is so tight that no one else gets a look in and because they are posers they have to rely on slogans so anyone with an innovative (larfs) proposal gets the boot immediately.
And... if you do get someone to listen then they shake their heads and say you are full of shit and the next thing you know they have farmed out one of your ideas to one of their friends!!!!!!!
I spent seven years at the university studying economic history and the history of business and philosophy to boot but the posers say I dont know nuthin' so in the end one either gives up or moves out in the face of massive indifference and a wall of yabberers defending the status quo  with and impenetrable wall of blab and blah.
seeya later.
so there ya have it Kim.
RNZ needs a makeover but are you going to step up to the plate and let me at it.
I dont think so.

BTW the same dynamic is at work in the Art Hahahahaha Fucking World.
the Hotere sculptures in Lambton Quay are a heap of shit and nobody will tell the truth.
No matter what rationalisation whoever trots out to defend them they are still and always going to be a grubby little blot on the landscape...