Fretful Dreamers.

Some nations are congratulated for embracing the ideas needed to overcome adversity, others are damned for succumbing to ideologies that only make things worse.

THERE IS A DREAMLIKE QUALITY to life in New Zealand at present – and it’s not a nice dream. It’s one of those dreams where, in the dream, we know exactly where we are supposed to be and what we are supposed to be doing, but somehow, we can’t get there, we can’t do it. Something is blocking our way. Some force is slowing us down, pushing us off course, and (as the dream shades into nightmare) overwhelming us with paralysing feelings of dread.