Tribalism

A Real Culture

Culture: the ideas, customs and art produced and shared by a particular society. It is almost a necessary outcome when people congregate together. Yet, when we look at present day New Zealand, what we call culture is rather empty and vacuous.

Most of the original Pakeha settlers from Britain, particularly the Scots and the Welsh, ar

rived in Aotearoa with their culture in tatters (see JACOBITISM). They continued to copy some of the behaviour of the parent culture, but developed their own quaint interests and ways of doing things eg. “rugby, racing and beer”, the Edmond’s Cookbook, Buzzy Bee (now made in China), etc. “Kiwiana” could have been the beginnings of a true Pakeha culture in the 50’s and 60’s. Whether these concepts constituted ‘culture’ or not, is debatable, but even they have been swamped by market driven, consumerist, US corporate ideology, which reduces culture to a commodity and the population to a spectator.

The Maori, too, have had their strong culture weakened to a shadow of its former vibrancy. First by military invasion, then land acquisition and individual property ownership, then finally urbanisation and the bop, burgers and baseball caps of the current American monster. All this has left Maori and Pakeha in much the same boat.

The New Scottish Synthesis

The McGillicuddy Serious Party wants to revitalise culture in New Zealand. The best way to do this is to encourage all peoples to readopt the Clan or tribal system, which will again be the basic unit of social organisation.

Clan McGillicuddy provides a blueprint for other emerging Clans to create their own culture and mythos. Clan McGillicuddy is a fanatically Scottish movement loosely based on traditional highland culture. Also included are aspects from wider Celtic traditions with layer upon layer of fun and a strong sense of absurdity. Scots, despite compromising the largest ethnic group in New Zealand, have no living culture. The Highland Clearances and the Anglicisation of the original Scottish Culture over the centuries has all but eradicated it. Many see the Scots culture as being dour, puritanical and sexist. Clan McGillicuddy is here to prod and tickle it back into shape.

Tribalism

The Clan or Tribe is the most successful social structure for nurturing culture. Your position in the Clan and the emotional and physical security that this brings, coupled with the Clan’s role in education and health will mean that tribal identity will become the most important aspect in everyone’s lives. The Clan will develop and implement all laws, myths, art, medicine, legends, language and costume, as well as tuition in work -

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