Invercargill, what makes a good city?

Posted 22nd May 2019 to the Southland Times Newspaper Invercargill.

Talking about refurbishing Invercargill City... I did a check list about what makes a good city it seems well maintained and tidy buildings,
nice friendly street-scapes are important but their are a few other things you need like nice weather, Interesting shops, friendly people,
Recreational opportunities, education opportunities and first and foremost good job opportunities. I don’t know how city hall can tick all those boxes but
As long as Central Government is not helping cities much apart from the Auckland Mega City project so unless that changes it will be a hard road.

Free Will and the Southland Museum

Posted 14th of April 2018 to the Southland Times Newspaper Invercargill NZ

So the anti free will conspirators have taken down the Southland Museum. There are people who insist that free will does not exist but It is a real thing. The Structure of the Universe may be held together by pure mathematics but the human mind is on a different level. We desire to take risks and break our mathematical boundaries to find opportunity and adventure.

But there is a constant struggle with controllers agents who abhor the chaos of Human activity they judge recklessness, they have taken the Manapouri Power Station, Large Portions of our National Parks, Anderson Park the Museum and now threaten the City of Invercargill itself.

Politicians should worry as some times the lure of free will is so great it can take down a Government, just ask Hillary Clinton!

Most People like to conform to a social pattern But there are those who desire more from life. Freedom to take risks.
What we crazy annoying humans call living.

New Zealand Youth Suicide debate

Posted 9 Sept 2017 to the Southland Times News Paper Invercargill NZ

It seemed awfully brave you guys the Southland Times to cover the Southland Suicide Rate especially for young people
It is hard to explain to the young the world we live in today and how to cope with it and I can see journalists are struggling
Just like every one else.

it almost feels like Victorian times when we talk of the PRECARIAT and the dire need of the private sector to create meaning and work
Harks back to the WORKHOUSE and the dreadful term FAILURE TO THRIVE where Children would lose the will to live and waste away.

The amount of wealth we have at our fingertips has never been greater yet our collective efforts seem to make great suffering amongst our people
and bring such emotional darkness and uncertainly as to turn good citizens against each other out of fear.

We also fear TAXES, we all pay taxes when times are good to help us when things are bad the greatest tax is that of Love.

Their lies a great deficit of our time.

Don't let politics ruin our words !

Posted 7th August 2017 to the Advocate South Newspaper Te Anau NZ

Dear Advocate: There are a few of your readers who write political viewpoints to the regional broadsheets and I think they do not fully understand some concepts.
For example the opposite of a socialist is in fact a narcissist and on the bell curve of human compassion empathy and sympathy are also on different ends of a scale.

For example Mr Donald Trump has empathy which by definition means he has love for his “kind” he is also not a socialist as he is focused on his supporters, friends and family first
So that pushes him into the narcissist camp but, if you remind him of his friends & Family he will maybe show you compassion.

Franklin D Roosevelt on the other hand
was the opposite of this and he used his socialism and sympathy for everyone to not only save the entire United States but the World from falling into Darkness and despair. He really did
make America great again when it was on it’s knees.

As for good and bad words...  Socialism has got a bad wrap even though it saved us in a time of great need, mixed with a pinch of capitalism.
It’s powerful nature scared people.  Capitalism (a nice word) mixed with narcissism is another story as it is toxic to nature itself and was exactly what FDR had to save us from.

It may be shades of grey but If we don’t use words & concepts correctly we can not be understood or worse.