Human behaviour is puzzling. We avidly mine and invest in gold to store in vaults, we take flights to nowhere during COVID when we aren’t allowed to travel, we pretend to explore for resources when we are just trying to jack their value up, we can act swiftly in the face of a pandemic but, in the face of climate change, we seem powerless to act.
Reading fiction and reading election promises – they’re pretty much the same. Except fiction is generally based in reality. All the parties in the NZ election want to spend more but where is the more going to come from?
Cameron Bagrie has come clean and said he doesn’t know what is going to happen to NZ house prices. However, people don’t like, “I don’t know.” They want certainty from their fortune tellers.
Some people are positive saints in these COVID times. The process of beatification is a long one, so they won’t likely become saints until they are dead. Beatification often seems to include belief without evidence, like what we believe about the economy.
COVID-19 is a ‘wicked’ problem – one that is impossible to solve and for which no single solution is sufficient or all-encompassing. The pandemic’s wickedness relates to the interlinked ethical dilemmas around sacrificing people in the interesting of sustaining the economy.
