Many who have posted comments on social media about Steve Braunias’s interview with Todd Stephenson desperately want to believe it is not real. When politics occupies the space where we expect to find comedy and satire, what does that say about our country, our culture, and our politics?
Our government is becoming more and more like a dystopian novel. It’s understandable it all feels like satire. Seymour wants the department (department/ commitee? - sorry can’t remember the correct word) for Treaty of Waitangi altogether removed. Dystopia.
So important we speak out together, keep the spotlight shining on this foolish Government, you nailed it, oh these sad sad days, we must stand and speak and challenge together.
Well said. ‘Together’ is the operative word. Individualism — individual rights, individual freedoms, individual property and wealth — is the venomous poison that fork-tongued David Seymour and his lackeys are selling as some kind of ‘cure-all tonic.’ But we know when to call a spade a spade, a joker a joker, and when to tell the shark to fold his hand and leave the table. It’s goodbye trickster and goodbye toady.
Yes, I was one of those foolish people who thought the interview must surely have been satire - because - how could any MP, let alone the spokesperson for the arts, name only one NZ author?
I also do wonder what Dame Jenny Gibbs and Alan Gibbs, both huge supporters of the arts AND huge Act supporters make of this?
Brave and true. He is an ignorant wrecker let loose in a house he could never have built.
Many who have posted comments on social media about Steve Braunias’s interview with Todd Stephenson desperately want to believe it is not real. When politics occupies the space where we expect to find comedy and satire, what does that say about our country, our culture, and our politics?
Our government is becoming more and more like a dystopian novel. It’s understandable it all feels like satire. Seymour wants the department (department/ commitee? - sorry can’t remember the correct word) for Treaty of Waitangi altogether removed. Dystopia.
So important we speak out together, keep the spotlight shining on this foolish Government, you nailed it, oh these sad sad days, we must stand and speak and challenge together.
Well said. ‘Together’ is the operative word. Individualism — individual rights, individual freedoms, individual property and wealth — is the venomous poison that fork-tongued David Seymour and his lackeys are selling as some kind of ‘cure-all tonic.’ But we know when to call a spade a spade, a joker a joker, and when to tell the shark to fold his hand and leave the table. It’s goodbye trickster and goodbye toady.
Yes, I was one of those foolish people who thought the interview must surely have been satire - because - how could any MP, let alone the spokesperson for the arts, name only one NZ author?
I also do wonder what Dame Jenny Gibbs and Alan Gibbs, both huge supporters of the arts AND huge Act supporters make of this?