Author: Jane Shearer
FB – my actions & reactions
How do we control our use of social media? Its set up to make us salivate like Pavlovian dogs on the basis of intermittent rewards.
Good or Bad?
Should we be buying better? Like our electric vehicle to replace our defunct ICE car. Or buying less?
Views
Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars…as true as it was unbelievable. Who should apologise?
The other side of tourism
Tourism creates global understanding and we need more understanding at a time when Russia is invading the Ukraine and China wants to take Taiwan back.
Tourism saves the economy, or not – a rant
Tourism – a nightmare before COVID, what will return once the COVID nightmare ends?
The weight of absence
The impact of absence can be an enormous void or a welcome relief depending on your expectations and desires.
‘Real’ scary as an antidote
When existential threats seem overwhelming, doing something scary in New Zealand’s back country is a great antidote – Rabbit Pass.
Relativities
The tin foil hat protest at Parliament – real, or a fake? Based on the lack of online evidence, it was a media hype to make protesters look foolish. At least they weren’t put in prison, like Russian protestors against the invasion of Ukraine.
Do vaccine mandates work?
What effect do vaccine mandates have? They can raise vaccination rates and simultaneously increase societal polarity. Given we are a highly vaccinated country and given only boosting reduces Omicron transmision (boosting not being part of mandates), do mandates make sense in New Zealand.