The Royal Commission has three excellent people, and I am sure they will do a good job, but they will not be running the new regime, whatever it is. That will, as always, be the bureaucrats. As Franz Kafka neatly put it: 'After the dust of revolution has settled there arises the slime of a new bureaucracy.'
And the new bureaucracy will certainly not be smaller than Auckland's. It will be another empire, with many of the same people, and therefore the same dominate-the-gulf-islands mentality. The battle against their mindset will continue.
The only way the islands can achieve the separation in administration that they have in geography is to have an administration that is separate physically and mentally from the city-side mainland. That must also mean one that is not big enough to dominate.
Waiheke Island, New Zealand
Waiheke from the west (the end nearest Auckland)
About Me
- Nobilangelo
- My Christian name is pronounced 'noble-arn-jillo' (i.e., both o's are long, so the first two syllables rhyme with 'noble' not 'hobble'--yes, I know that's obvious, because there's only one 'b' between the 'o' and the 'i', but some people seem to see two b's, hence the English lesson). My surname is pronounced kerra-marliss. I was born, bred and educated in New Zealand, except for an international systems-engineer's course in San Antonio, Texas. I am born-again Christian, a thinker with a very practical turn of mind, a scientist with a particular interest in planet-friendly energy and neuroscience, an engineer (mechanical, industrial and IT systems), an inventor, a Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a writer and poet, a naturist, a designer in different fields, an arranger and composer of symphonic music, a multi-award-winning IT journalist, a photographer, and a practitioner at various times in other hands-on fields including building, metalwork, woodwork, stained-glass and landscaping.