GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Standing Upright in the Wild South | The Daily Blog
So let’s dump the death trap of chauvinism of all kinds, national, gender and race, and unite with our brothers and sisters of the Wild South to …
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Māori rise up while Government looks to rewrite history
Opinion: The Māori King Tūheitia was winding up the day’s hui with a predictable list of talking points that was struggling to hold anyone’s …
The Path to True Freedom is Systematic Privatization
Politics in all its variants, particularly the politics of political parties, is the archenemy of freedom, prosperity, and peace. Yet, wherever one …
World may have to live through anarchy to rescue what it lost
As we try to figure out what the next year holds in store for the world, one milestone looms menacingly on the horizon: the US presidential election …
Rewilding Democracy: On Anne Norton’s “Wild Democracy” | Los Angeles Review of Books
BEFORE THE GREAT RECESSION and the populist tides of the 2010s, the meaning of democracy was somewhat stable. Democracy was, for a brief period— …
Politics versus democracy
New Zealand has never known real democracy, its the same for almost every nation.
Because New Zealand is a “representative democracy” we’ve almost never voted on issues of substance, just on people to to represent us to solve those issues. And as we know, they can’t represent us and they don’t.
Fundamental political governance problem
We think that a key fundamental problem with parliament and almost every politically empowered organisation lies in separating decision making from influence. Both concepts are necessary but it’s essential the processes are separated. Influence is everything up for discussion: it involves literally all of the ideas, the revelation of concepts and revelation of information. It…
Just be yourself!
By nature, politics is set to divide people. Whether you like it or not, gradually our mindsets start to think by the categories we are forced into. People become blue, red, left or right and it pigeonholes them into thinking certain ways and controlling their responses to situations. We lose the ability to think critically…