Comments on: Resist. We are past peak state. https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2015/10/resist-we-are-past-peak-state/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Sat, 31 Dec 2016 05:45:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7 By: hearthie https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2015/10/resist-we-are-past-peak-state/comment-page-1/#comment-6269 Mon, 12 Oct 2015 01:54:13 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=7671#comment-6269 The state plays dirty, and resisting is not straightforward. Talk to someone who’s never gotten a letter from the school district saying, “Your child has been out of school too much [excused absences] and if this keeps up, we might call CPS on you”.

FWIW I was noticing the other day – the town I live in has less gang violence and “military downtown”itis (okay, it’s still there, but it’s hiding) but the homeless population has increased dramatically from when I was a girl. This has led to an increase in totally random violence. A lady was walking her dogs and got cold-cocked by a homeless man a couple of weeks ago… ended up in ICU.

The weird thing is that it’s unacceptable to talk about it. It’s gauche to say, “Oh yeah, you can’t go down that street”… although you’d best not go down that street.

Oh, the state does indeed play dirty. With your kids, particularly. We have to resist: teach them how to read a street as surely as how to read a surf break, and how to protect both body and mind

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