Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 16, 2023 9:13:35 GMT 12
Caleb Anderson: CO-GOVERNANCE - IT'S NOT THAT COMPLICATED
I think that we are overcomplicating the whole co-governance issue. Discussion on this issue is frequently emotive and more philosophical than empirical or evidence-based (and by that, I mean good historical evidence).
Hence we go around in circles and bury ourselves in endless dead-end discussions. The approach to this doesn't need to be so fraught and complicated. In fact, it is incredibly simple.
I have postgraduate studies in History and have read history widely.
I can think of no situation anywhere in history where suffrage based on anything other than the principle of absolute equality (one person's vote of no more or less value than another) has been ultimately successful (and by successful I mean sustainably just).
I can think of plenty of situations where attempts to differentiate the value of a person's vote (i.e. of one person's vote - or influence - holding greater power than another's) have been absolutely and ultimately catastrophic.
So here is the challenge. Find a country, anywhere, at any time, that has been ultimately successful when it vested more power to some than others on the basis of ancestry, race, or whatever.
You won't find one.
Now the retort will generally be "Indigenous (tribal) societies were just, harmonious, equal, and fair."
And the simple response ... why then have you worked at such extraordinary speed, and gone to such extraordinary lengths to ensure that our libraries and schools have been divested of the historical accounts of our past, have designed a curriculum that begins in 1840, forbidden open discussion on events before that......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/11/caleb-anderson-co-governance-its-not.html
I think that we are overcomplicating the whole co-governance issue. Discussion on this issue is frequently emotive and more philosophical than empirical or evidence-based (and by that, I mean good historical evidence).
Hence we go around in circles and bury ourselves in endless dead-end discussions. The approach to this doesn't need to be so fraught and complicated. In fact, it is incredibly simple.
I have postgraduate studies in History and have read history widely.
I can think of no situation anywhere in history where suffrage based on anything other than the principle of absolute equality (one person's vote of no more or less value than another) has been ultimately successful (and by successful I mean sustainably just).
I can think of plenty of situations where attempts to differentiate the value of a person's vote (i.e. of one person's vote - or influence - holding greater power than another's) have been absolutely and ultimately catastrophic.
So here is the challenge. Find a country, anywhere, at any time, that has been ultimately successful when it vested more power to some than others on the basis of ancestry, race, or whatever.
You won't find one.
Now the retort will generally be "Indigenous (tribal) societies were just, harmonious, equal, and fair."
And the simple response ... why then have you worked at such extraordinary speed, and gone to such extraordinary lengths to ensure that our libraries and schools have been divested of the historical accounts of our past, have designed a curriculum that begins in 1840, forbidden open discussion on events before that......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/11/caleb-anderson-co-governance-its-not.html