Book 869: A.R.D. Fairburn, We New Zealanders (1944). A Progressive Publishing Society publication, which meant more or less the NZ Communist party. “I want this to sink in: we New Zealanders are one of the dullest, most stupidly conservative, most unenterprising races on the planet…..Our national vice is stupidity. It’s not that, individually, we are more stupid than other people. The trouble is that we have such a solid respect for stupidity.” ’Nuff said.
Monday, April 27, 2020
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Book 869: A.R.D. Fairburn, We New Zealanders (1944). A Progressive Publishing Society publication, which meant more or less the NZ Communist party. “I want this to sink in: we New Zealanders are one of the dullest, most stupidly conservative, most unenterprising races on the planet…..Our national vice is stupidity. It’s not that, individually, we are more stupid than other people. The trouble is that we have such a solid respect for stupidity.” ’Nuff said.
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new zealand is the place where the baby is always chucked out with the bathwater, no one says what they mean, and whatever policy plank anyo...
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