tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21733836.post3206263114492939461..comments2024-03-28T00:13:03.960-07:00Comments on Babasiga: Where do they get these speakers?Peceli and Wendy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01165668047817341837noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21733836.post-69436089144026860922018-05-29T19:37:54.599-07:002018-05-29T19:37:54.599-07:00Hello, everyone we offers international loans. Wit...Hello, everyone we offers international loans. With the capital used for long-term loans etc, also we give out loans at 2% interest rate so if yes you are really serious in need of a loan to pay off your bills or settle your debt please contact us at our company email address: johnleoloancompany@gmail.com or whatsApp number: +1(571)-489-7172Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10165142200500987873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21733836.post-77989134585264983002010-05-05T21:48:40.272-07:002010-05-05T21:48:40.272-07:00Hello Wilson,
Don't get me wrong about quirky,...Hello Wilson,<br />Don't get me wrong about quirky, maverick lecturers. I was once an art student and we had some beauties! It was the content of his talk that was irritating.<br />W.Peceli and Wendy's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165668047817341837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21733836.post-33957008853372051542010-05-05T19:52:47.750-07:002010-05-05T19:52:47.750-07:00I wish all our lecturers were like him. Strange an...I wish all our lecturers were like him. Strange and kooky? I'd go to that class any day ;PWilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11661125821290748285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21733836.post-18351639990225925172010-05-02T04:27:44.897-07:002010-05-02T04:27:44.897-07:00Thank you Andrew for giving our humble blog some f...Thank you Andrew for giving our humble blog some food for thought. Certainly trying to have a crime-free town in Fiji is more than declaring it so. The flaws are there in old and new ways of leadership. Speeches full of cliches and abstract words don't help either. Telling true stories from the lives of people are a better way to make people think. However I will give credit where it's due in the current situation as there are some projects that are happening that 'can take the country forward' (as they are known to say), but as you said in the Bolshevik model, you don't criticize everything, break it all up, and expect perfection. Now that's a ramble - I am a bit tired tonight.<br />WendyPeceli and Wendy's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165668047817341837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21733836.post-23910466418764414262010-05-01T18:47:02.505-07:002010-05-01T18:47:02.505-07:00The philosopher John Gray (London School of Econom...The philosopher John Gray (London School of Economics) writes this of the Bolsheviks - they were "practitioners of utopian social engineering which aims to reconstruct society by altering it all at once...Society as it presently exists is beyond redemption. It must be destroyed in order to create a new way of life. One difficulty of utopian social engineering is that it contains no methd for correcting mistakes. The theory that guides the construction of Utopia is taken to be infallible; any deviation from it is treated as error or treason...However, given the fact of human infallibility, the model is sure to contain flaws, some of which may be fatal".<br />- from Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, Penquin 2007.<br />Need more be said.Andrew Thornleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21733836.post-40088801824173764292010-04-27T19:52:50.961-07:002010-04-27T19:52:50.961-07:00If you want a vavalagi point of view there's a...If you want a vavalagi point of view there's a good discussion paper here:<br /> http://rspas.anu.edu.au/papers/melanesia/discussion_papers/09_06_norton.pdf<br /><br />The Historical Trajectory of Fijian Power<br />Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies<br />State, Society and Governance in Melanesia<br />DISCUSSION PAPER<br />Discussion Paper 2009/6<br /><br />AnonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21733836.post-74457219566566562492010-04-27T15:15:07.548-07:002010-04-27T15:15:07.548-07:00I doubt that he is on the staff, more like a blow-...I doubt that he is on the staff, more like a blow-in. He just seemed to be reading a hand-out. A speaker needs to engage with an audience, look them in the eye, say something new or well-thought out, have expertise in the topic. The audience needs to be mainly comfortable but occasionally uncomfortable!<br />It's a different thing to throwing a few impulsive opinions into a blog posting! <br />w.Peceli and Wendy's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165668047817341837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21733836.post-39802922235765715192010-04-27T05:58:22.203-07:002010-04-27T05:58:22.203-07:00His appointment to the University would have carri...His appointment to the University would have carried obvious pre-conditions.Andrew Thornleynoreply@blogger.com