A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
Opinion
I have refrained lately from the ‘male v female' and the cultural-guilt discussions that have dominated your columns lately, as most of them do not auger for a better society locally or around the world in general.
While the “British” colonisation of New Zealand/Aoteraroa is one of the more recent
reasons for social abrasion and hurt, such wrongs are occurring throughout the world even today, and have always continued — going back to the times when Homo-erectus subjugated the Neanderthals.
Subsequent tribes and peoples imposed their collective wills on others, hiding their misdeeds behind politics, religion and cultural practices ever since.
No countries, very few religions and no governments have been free of this curse that we call the human condition.
Thus, while this ‘see-sawing' of point-makings in your columns has its place, and everyone should be entitled to a view, it is sad, and dare I say frustrating to the majority that there is not less of the gender and cultural-clash discussion, which arises out of past history — including the “gender wars” of more recent origin, and more of the wisdom and discussion around the more recent problems of Covid, global warming and the expansionism of certain larger countries, which may again assign this country to the status of, ‘The mouse that roars'.
