I think this was performed on the jetty by the ships company of a HMNZS that had been in Canada for refit before embarking and sailing her back home. It was a display of power and pride. Quite breathtaking.
It is a very powerful performance. And what strikes me most about it is how it is shared by all New Zealanders regardless of ethnicity. It is taught in schools with pride and conducted at all sorts of ceremonies and public events. Watching it being performed by the All Blacks triggered a thought in the back of my mind: why don’t we have something similar in Canada and specifically BC.
We have some political parties that think progress comes from dividing people into arbitrary identity groups, and ranking them as more or less moral, more or less deserving. We have people who have devolved to calling other people names and thinking it's actually justified (settler, colonist, zionist). Some people even need to put Indigenous culture on a pedestal for some kind of worship...
None of this is mature; none of it survives the first week of philosophy/ethics/logic 101, and leaders know it all leads to dark, sad places. Worst of all, it makes people turn inward, close their minds and produces terrible results.
That’s it! I am beginning to feel that neither side of our political spectrum in BC has the right approach. It is time that we start demanding better and start actually looking to countries in a similar situation as Canada for answers as to how they have managed this issue. We are not alone in this reality.
Leaders, as I understand them to be, are rare. Selfishness, the ego (some real supernovas), tribalism, all prevail in the vacuum.
Leaders don't justify the means, don't punch down, listen to all perspectives, hold all things as contingent, love the community/the people more than ideas, want to do something more than they want to be something, and have courage.
Leaders know they are flawed like everyone else, especially their perspective, they own mistakes and apologize, and they build diverse teams to solve problems. (Diverse equals different opinions, NOT shallow shapes and colours.)
To the cynical, failing strategists who say, "you cannot win this way, and if you cannot win you cannot do your great works", I say "patent, cowardly bullshit." I know this is just not true.
The status quo is a tragedy of lost opportunity to rectify systemic failures and create a future of possibility for all.
Well said!
I think this was performed on the jetty by the ships company of a HMNZS that had been in Canada for refit before embarking and sailing her back home. It was a display of power and pride. Quite breathtaking.
It is a very powerful performance. And what strikes me most about it is how it is shared by all New Zealanders regardless of ethnicity. It is taught in schools with pride and conducted at all sorts of ceremonies and public events. Watching it being performed by the All Blacks triggered a thought in the back of my mind: why don’t we have something similar in Canada and specifically BC.
We have some political parties that think progress comes from dividing people into arbitrary identity groups, and ranking them as more or less moral, more or less deserving. We have people who have devolved to calling other people names and thinking it's actually justified (settler, colonist, zionist). Some people even need to put Indigenous culture on a pedestal for some kind of worship...
None of this is mature; none of it survives the first week of philosophy/ethics/logic 101, and leaders know it all leads to dark, sad places. Worst of all, it makes people turn inward, close their minds and produces terrible results.
That’s it! I am beginning to feel that neither side of our political spectrum in BC has the right approach. It is time that we start demanding better and start actually looking to countries in a similar situation as Canada for answers as to how they have managed this issue. We are not alone in this reality.
Leaders, as I understand them to be, are rare. Selfishness, the ego (some real supernovas), tribalism, all prevail in the vacuum.
Leaders don't justify the means, don't punch down, listen to all perspectives, hold all things as contingent, love the community/the people more than ideas, want to do something more than they want to be something, and have courage.
Leaders know they are flawed like everyone else, especially their perspective, they own mistakes and apologize, and they build diverse teams to solve problems. (Diverse equals different opinions, NOT shallow shapes and colours.)
To the cynical, failing strategists who say, "you cannot win this way, and if you cannot win you cannot do your great works", I say "patent, cowardly bullshit." I know this is just not true.