Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 9, 2023 8:39:26 GMT 12
Elizabeth Rata: IN DEFENCE OF THE LIBERAL UNIVERSITY AND AGAINST INDIGENISATION.
The second agenda is tribalism. What I refer to as the invented Principles Treaty to distinguish it from the 1840 Articles Treaty, linked the equity agenda to the 1980s' tribalisation movement. In this alliance the moralists of the new professional class were both tribalists and marxist-inspired socialists. Their students are today's indigenisers and social justice warriors.
Tribalism and socialism are communitarian ideologies. Both celebrate the collective and disparage the individual. The revolutionary idea of the universal individual developed in Enlightenment political philosophy, then refined in the liberal ideals of modern democratic politics is re-imagined in the distorted image of a hollowed out creature estranged from tradition and culture. A common caricature from the 1970s portrays the British colonial descendant as spiritually impoverished and trapped in a desolate culture. Those who bought into this caricature welcomed seduction into the romanticised tribe – and the revisionist history required to support the dream.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/12/elizabeth-rata-in-defence-of-liberal.html
The second agenda is tribalism. What I refer to as the invented Principles Treaty to distinguish it from the 1840 Articles Treaty, linked the equity agenda to the 1980s' tribalisation movement. In this alliance the moralists of the new professional class were both tribalists and marxist-inspired socialists. Their students are today's indigenisers and social justice warriors.
Tribalism and socialism are communitarian ideologies. Both celebrate the collective and disparage the individual. The revolutionary idea of the universal individual developed in Enlightenment political philosophy, then refined in the liberal ideals of modern democratic politics is re-imagined in the distorted image of a hollowed out creature estranged from tradition and culture. A common caricature from the 1970s portrays the British colonial descendant as spiritually impoverished and trapped in a desolate culture. Those who bought into this caricature welcomed seduction into the romanticised tribe – and the revisionist history required to support the dream.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/12/elizabeth-rata-in-defence-of-liberal.html