1900: Boer War Parade
March 30, 2019
By AHNZ
Back in 1900 New Zealand’s mainstream was well into the grips of high Honour Culture. Our Prime Minister¹ was Richard Seddon, a big tall brawling bear of a man. The time for effeminate pipsqueaks like Reeves being useful to the ruling Liberal Party had passed. By the time of this photo New Zealand’s 1st Contingent of Mounted Rifles had done their tour and returned, the 2nd of many more soon to follow.²
Leading up to the Boer War there had been an unprecedented level of Social Justice Warrior expression although, of course, they didn’t have that name for Victimhood Culture back then. Certainly this preceding stage saw the great war on alcohol that was the Temperance Movement where do-gooder women tried to ‘fix’ the world by prohibition. Our r-selected crusaders also fawned over Bad Boy Maoris such as Te Kooti and won votes for women (1893) led by daffy old Kate Sheppard.
Much legislation was passed to appeal to an r-selected mainstream. State welfare for the elderly was enacted. The age of consent (sexual, that is) was raised. Alimony payments to women who divorce came into being. Property was confiscated from big farmers and re-distributed to the little guys (who voted Liberal.) These estates became towns and re-named after the politicians (eg Ward, Seddon, McKenzie.) But every Victimhood Culture leads to an equal and opposite reaction.
Let’s hope New Zealand doesn’t need a similar expression of martial masculinity to calm down the chooks in 2019. When the women of a society don’t rate the men within it to protect and provide for them it ignites those men into their own sort of virtue signalling which frequently leads to conquest and war. The curious thing about 2019 is that many of the rough young men who would normally grow up to be Honour Culture were never born. The neglectful mothers who did not attach to their sons had abortion and contraceptives meaning that the usual cohort of juvenile larrikins are under-populated in our society today. What does that mean?
The image above from 1900 is a glimpse of New Zealand’s future in the 2020s. Uniformed children and men marching and New Zealand getting tangled up in someone else’s foreign war to prove masculinity to our doubting women.
1900: The Khaki Girls
1901: Shoot the Boer
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- Premier, in actual fact. But my convention is to say PM so as not to complicate things
- nzmr.org/history.htm
image ref. Blacks Point Museum; West Coast New Zealand History
image ref. Mrs Banks was too busy to mother her children in Mary Poppins (1964) because she was flat out being a Victimhood Culture crusader
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