“A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistical philistines, who have brought their “civilisation” with them from England and keep it to themselves like a dog in a manger.”
“Snobbishness of the population: servility towards the aristocracy”
Very prescient, as usual, Lenin!
I grew up in NZ and can say that he is spot on. Especially about the snobbishness. White New Zealanders are like white Australians, but more snobbish.
Well I mean one of our national Heroes is Sir Edmund Hillary
It's as if they made an entire country out of the most insufferable parts of Wahroonga and the Southern Highlands.
it's like trying to read an image from a conspiracy chanboard
iirc it's directly from his notebook/journal, so it's not an offical publication, so whomever put this in this format tried to sorta give it a similar layout to his scribbling in a page/adding notes in the margins.
