1.
Observations by Dr Bernard Cadogan!
!
Friday, 8 May 2015 at the McGuinness Institute, Wellington !

2.
Do’s
• ‘fess
up’
as
Helen
Clark
memorably
put
it.
• Tell
it
as
it
is
as
the
public
keep
telling
us.
New
Zealanders
are
s;ll
late
Victorian
posi;vists
in
their
tests
for
the
truth.

3.
Don’ts
• Don’t
pretend
to
superiority.
You
will
affirm
your
authority
by
disloca;ng
it,
and
by
not
making
yourself
the
issue.
• Don’t
be
moralis6c.
Don’t
make
yourself
out
to
be
poli;cally
or
ideologically
correct
in
terms
of
disciplines
that
are
not
epistemologically
verifiable.
• Don’t
whip
yourself
up
into
zeal.
People
hate
dogma;sts.
• Don’t
be
a
prig.
People
hate
PC.
• Don’t
be
gnos6c,
as
if
you
alone
have
access
to
special
insight
and
knowledge.
People
hate
sorcerers,
witches
and
wizards.
• Don’t
be
a
personalist.
It’s
not
a
poetry
reading.
You’re
not
reading
out
diary
excerpts
of
your
extra
special
wannabe
celebrity
life.
• Mislay
the
self,
and
don’t
worry
about
it.

4.
Two
threefold
structures
for
rhetorical
architectonics
• The
first
threesome
is
Mimesis1,
Mimesis2,
and
Mimesis3.
• The
second
triune
structure
relates
to
Poli;cal
Philosophy
itself.
It
consists
of
technique,
cri6que
and
mys6que.

5.
More
don’ts
• Don’t
say
you
are
passionate.
Be
passionate
by
doing.
Passion
like
Love,
is
something
you
do,
nothing
you
say.
• Don’t
say
you
are
thrilled
or
excited.
The
audience
wants
to
see
that
you
enjoy
being
with
them
and
that
you
like
your
job.
• Don’t
be
horrible.
Don’t
do
anything
to
put
a
bullet
through
the
pressurised
hull
of
reasoned
New
Zealand
civil
discourse.
• Don’t
preach.
Don’t
be
moralis6c.
Don’t
let
the
spiMle
of
zeal
fly.
Don’t
pretend
to
moral
advantage.

6.
List
of
Speeches
Copies
of
these
speeches
can
be
found
at
www.na;onvoicesnz.org
• Sir
George
Grey
‘Millions
Yet
Unborn’
(8
March
1878)
• Sir
Apirana
Ngata
‘The
Gospel
of
Equality’
(25
July
1939)
• Rt
Hon.
Simon
Upton
‘Too
Young
–
Too
Old’
(13
December
2000)
• Rt
Hon.
Helen
Clark
A
series
of
comments
(2002,
2003
and
2004)
• Dr
Don
Brash
‘Na;onhood'
(27
January
2004)

7.
Thank
you
An
ini;a;ve
of
the
McGuinness
Ins;tute.
A
video
of
the
event
will
be
published
on
the
website
www.na;onvoicesnz.org
as
well
as
the
McGuinness
Ins;tute’s
YouTube
channel
in
early
June
2015.