Clive Bibby: “We don’t know how lucky we are”

Most will remember the very popular theme song sung by that intrepid freedom fighter Fred Dagg as he and his band of “Trev” eco warriors waded through the pristine waters of our rural rivers.

But never a more serious truth was uttered in jest.

Here in our own little bit of paradise, well away from the polluted world (most of which is beyond redemption) we still have the ability to change the way we do things before we become collateral damage of those larger nations whose selfish actions will influence what ultimately happens to us all.

Colin Rawle: The Decline of Western Consciousness - in NZ (how the West was lost)

"You are free and that is why you are lost"
- Franz Kafka.

Whatever lives in the hearts and minds of human beings sooner or later comes to expression in outer reality. Or, as an old aphorism has it, " The thought precedes the deed".

History demonstrates that in the case of New Zealand's relatively short civilised history, the aggregate content of what lived in the hearts and minds of the early explorers, missionaries, and settlers, was of sufficient worth to eventually pacify the Maoris and to establish the beginnings of a civilised society of great promise. None of the ills of the old countries were to be transplanted into these brave new Elysian fields - Oh no!