Insights From Social Media: A Nation Built by Grit Is Being Run by Fragility

Stuart Bennett Clarke Writes > New Zealand’s success was never an accident. It emerged from a very specific cultural framework — one built on reason, industry, personal responsibility, and an unwavering belief in objective truth. For more than a century, these foundations enabled a small, remote nation to punch far above its weight, producing world-class scientists, engineers, explorers, aviators, and athletes. Today, those foundations have been progressively dismantled and replaced with a new ideology that prioritises feelings over facts and symbolism over substance — and New Zealand is paying the price.