Warning: This piece contains
Reactionary triggers.
As
with every election year, there is started that campaign by the Left to get
those to vote whom don’t normally, because they can’t be bothered; particularly
youth. No doubt this due in no small
part to the Left thinking they know where this uninformed vote will go; and I’m
afraid they may be right – that is, follow my
money.
5 ways to immediately lift voter participation in NZ elections - See more at: http://t.co/iEERUI50mE @actionstation
— TheDailyBlogNZ (@TheDailyBlogNZ) May 26, 2014
As
usual in our age of Reality TV, the message goes right to that pseudo nouveau
intelligentsia at the top, celebrity; because as we all know, singing tunes and
learning lines gives one instant access to all scienpoliteconophilosophial
knowledge:
@publicaddress cc #rockenrol - i went and spoke to youth enrolment about why young votes are important a few weeks ago, should be out soon!
— Lorde (@lordemusic) May 26, 2014
Two
thoughts; I apologise now before you read on:
If someone can't of themselves be bothered to get informed and vote, I don't want them voting.
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) May 26, 2014
@MarkHubbard33 & there is currently a big push by Left to get youth to vote, because they know where the uninformed vote goes #EmotingBooth
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) May 26, 2014
Regarding
the Daily Blog Post: no, this libertarian definitely does not want 16 year old high
school children voting on how ‘I’m
allowed’ to live my life, and how much of my income is to be taken for the
privilege. Let them earn an income first. And while teaching civics
in school sounds good, when 95% of our teachers belong to hard-line Left union
the PPTA, excuse me for being terrified.
Bloody
democracy: the Left would turn the voting box into an emoting box for the
idealistic young who have not lived in reality sufficiently to understand they can
only vote themselves a free lunch on my income, with consequences that frighten
we adults who have a keen grasp on the history of the state, a state, and how
it has always consumed our freedoms and our right to be left alone. I want people voting who have thought about these issues for some good deal of time, not just lunch-time before the bell rings.
Clarifications in the way of
Excuses, Regarding this Reactionary and Celebrity:
I
love and respect what Lorde has done for herself: her burgeoning career is an
example of talent with confidence coming together into the best a human being
can be. However, the conundrum is - with Keisha Castle-Hughes Green activism in
mind, (remember before her and her boyfriend trashed that landlord’s house they were
living in?), and the over thirty causes Justin Bieber promotes, (and no I'm too timid to go and look) - I am ‘over’ celebrity teenagers thinking they have the world so
sussed, they should have any sort of a say in my life via calling policy at the
Fortress of Legislation. Then again, with Lucy Lawless in mind, and Barbra
Streisand, I’m over all-knowing celebrities and their busy-body ways, period –
the only exclusion I can think of being Brigitte Bardot (animal welfare – um,
albeit I’m selfishly leaving the orthodoxy on that one). Although that’s not
quite it either: I’m just over everybody
thinking they have a right to have a say in what an individual does when that
individual is going about their life, minding their own business, doing no harm.
That is a right no one has, but which is
unfortunately the ruling ethic of our collectivist times as we are all forced to live the Lives of Others, our freedoms sacrificed
via the tax surveillance state to the manufactured needs of complete strangers.
Perhaps
I’m being childish myself. On a Twitter thread some years ago Sacha Dylan once
accused me of being like a spoilt child who was immaturely anti-authority: I
tried to debate him rationally on it, as adults do, however, he threw a tantrum in pretty
short order before doing the Lefty thing of re-writing history by wiping out
the entire timeline. No, I don’t think I’m being childish, and certainly
not selfish:
Rambling.
Sorry.
Long
live free speech, unless you’ve got your thieving paws on my wallet, or you’re a
kid: in which case, bugger off ... please. My
life is the one always-place your life has no right to be: we need a constitutional minarchy which protects only the rights of the smallest minority, the individual, and no vote to then emote that away, for it's time we stopped living bound lives, held down with a taxboot against our neck on someone else's bargaining table in an auction room. Though until we do, if there must be a vote, then I'll vote for a minimum voting age of 40, I think, perhaps deferred for those males still not through that little crisis we have around that age.
Now
I’m off to that wonderful product of capitalism: iTunes.