The Land of the White Cloud Set for Major Battle About Identity Politics

Commentary Acceptance of responsibility is a key virtue that needs to be at the heart of individual and societal decision-making. However, it has been supplanted by victim theory which allows blame for all types of misfortune to be laid at someone else’s feet, or one’s background over which one has no agency and control.  Its impact is debilitating and corrosive to individual endeavour. It stifles motivation and a desire to improve one’s own lot in life. This crooked thinking, which has so badly infected much of the Western world, has been exposed with a sensible and ever-so-refreshing approach by one of New Zealand’s smaller parties in that country’s national coalition government. ...