Thank you for including the article by Donna Chisholm regarding our fractured society (“Fusion not fission”, June 15).
It should be required reading for all New Zealanders.
I believe this was one of the most insightful descriptions of what is happening to our country. It identifies some of the important problems we are facing. It is only when Kiwis begin to acknowledge these problems and accept the need for change that we will begin to stop the decline of New Zealand and start the long process of re-establishing the decent society we once were. We cannot rely on our politicians to make these changes. We will have to facilitate them ourselves.
Eddie Mann (Auckland)
REAL POLITICIANS, PLEASE
It’s always refreshing when among all the noise and sound bites of articulate people trying to explain the “state of things” (socially, financially, politically, globally) you read a core honest article, “Walking a tightrope” (Politics, June 8). It’s at least 20 years since we had “real politicians” –people with actual principles who understood governing as a responsibility to people and society’s needs: health, education, housing, wellbeing, infrastructure, the environment.
Danyl McLauchlan’s reference to Hannah Arendt
