tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257493550531569180.post6494929171203513851..comments2024-03-26T16:16:22.535+13:00Comments on AGAINST THE CURRENT: FALSE DICHOTOMYUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257493550531569180.post-24066882459872720622017-02-11T14:43:34.635+13:002017-02-11T14:43:34.635+13:00I like your final paragraphs, but I'm not sure...I like your final paragraphs, but I'm not sure I've ever felt close enough to the people mentioned earlier to seek them out for political inspiration or economic insight. I get the feeling that many of the big blogging & journalistic brands are very cagey when the big numbers used as cyphers for anything 'economic' in New Zealand politics is touched upon. I wonder if some of the writers are themselves are simply keeping their political options open.<br /><br />I'm learning my economics as I go along - it's heterodox & I otherwise don't get a strong sense of economics other than the never too far away from the political mainstream from the people you mention. I don't have so much time that I can afford to miss the things I think are insightful or truely important. I tweet under @economicsnz but don't expect radicalism from the left here to agree or adopt the heterodox positions I tweet. And more importantly agree/adopt the authors these views are based on. And I feel there's also a lot of journalistic-style brand making that's going on also.<br /><br />Which finally brings me to my feeling that I've never really noticed this 'identity politics' thing that appears opposed to class in the minds of some. I don't think most New Zealand politics ever goes that deeply into politics. But we have had popular representation of some really important questions recently - housing, finicall instability, debt, corruption, jobs, low wages, health, water, pollution, climate change, local government, urban development, transport, ecology, protection, child abuse, violence, women, gays, lesbians, transgendered, race, Maori, equality, justice, prison etc etc. I think that makes us politically healthier than for a while.<br /><br />So, I probably won't be increasing the time spent on some blogs. But Twitter I find keeps me in touch better.<br /><br />JimAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12072111230113935984noreply@blogger.com