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A curious story in stuff today about Maori needing to “divorce” the Crown and form a new agreement between our dual nations around the Treaty. Maybe someone can clear this up, because there’s a bit of confusing cross over occurring where most readers will just dismiss the whole lot rather than consider an important idea. As I understand it, Maori (as an human entity) cannot give up their right to self determination etc. It’s inhernet in their spirit (within the subconscious, for Western readers). You could say the same about any other group of humans, though here in NZ it’s largely Maori that reitierate it. Therefore, no assertion is necessary, as it is always asserted. If you turn a light on in a room and then close the door so you can no longer see the light, the light is still burning, yes? Additionally, this inherent assertion cannot be negated by a third parrty choosing to ignore it. So I don’t know what happened in the story there, or why Maori MP’s are using that arrangement of ideas. Certainly a person can “forget”, or be “made to forget”, but the assertion is independent of consciousness, so never effectively neutralised. While you’ve closed the door to the room with the aforementioned light still burning, sure, it will be difficult to refind the door, or do anything else in the hallway, but still the light exists.
The next point I don’t understand is that “divorcing the crown” means the end of the known Treaty, yes? So how can a new arrangement be formed around the existing Treaty? Leaving aside the usual boring arguments that turn up everytime the idea of differring to the Treaty, or not, come up, a dual nation State that includes a Pakeha group, might still wish to have The Queen as head of State, for them. Much the same way that tauiwi/Pakeha have no say in the way Maori arrange their governance, I don’t understand how a subject of the Commonwealth must give up their identity before Maori can be “free”. Is it fear, again, because the most recent case of British Imperialism have been enacted by a government with penchant for destruction and not the Queen Herself. She certainly has not sent an aircraft carrier into the Carribean. It’s unlikely She’d independently send troops to interfere with burgeoning Independance or Dual Nationhood in NZ, especially since trade agreements make it pointless.
These things in the stuff story seem like a contradiction to me, badly transcribed, or at least badly choosen words, and likely to a lot of simlarly unenlightened readers.
We won a gold medal at the Winter Olympics! It’s been a bit bleak around here/anywhere these days, which may be why we aren’t celebrating historic sporting events the way we used to. Well done Zoi, from an old bugger who has just realised it is pronounced “Zoey.” I really must listen to the wireless more.
The Reserve Bank is gathering feedback on our money system. Have a think. Learn from Tonga’s experience how important it is to have a robust reliable practical hands-on system. See and tell the Reserve Bank’s reports and your concerns which you ‘should’ have.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/461052/tonga-how-an-internet-blackout-left-many-desperate-for-money
But last month’s tsunami, triggered by the undersea eruption, caused widespread devastation in Tonga, leaving him unable to remit money to his family at a time when they needed it the most.
“Western Union was offline, MoneyGram was offline … all the usual [remittance] providers were all offline, not only on the main island but also in the outer islands,” he told the BBC.