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andin

Thu, 31 May 2012 12:22:35 +1200

A good starting point but at some stage we have to accept, maybe understand in a wider sense our biological imperatives, and come to accept and value individual variation in a society. Not say this is the individual norm based on a single grouping's ideas you have to fit in.

Sacha

Wed, 30 May 2012 21:56:24 +1200

This more recent publication extract might also help explain where I'm coming from above.

Sacha

Wed, 30 May 2012 21:13:11 +1200

Dunbar is stil relevant when you look at how groups of humans regulate group decisions.

andin

Wed, 30 May 2012 17:09:50 +1200

we’re still only learning how to function in larger groupings than a clan or village.
Depends who your referring too. Most have had at least a couple of thousand years to get their mind around it. Does that mean we're slow learners or just normal?
Im not against economics, no…

Stephen Judd

Wed, 30 May 2012 15:59:30 +1200

Y’all probably thought they’d cut spending in real terms, but out here in the world those tax cuts are spending too (in that they’re a cut in negative spending).

Well, I saved my tax cut, and most of it’s piling up in a Kiwibank cash PIE, so it’s being lent…

Angus Robertson

Wed, 30 May 2012 15:01:24 +1200

And it is now fulled up, which is a bit of a shame.

merc

Wed, 30 May 2012 12:41:03 +1200

Thank you Tussock that is a very insightful comment.

tussock

Wed, 30 May 2012 11:27:35 +1200

We function perfectly in larger groups, Sacha, we do as everyone else does so as to not be the one who gets burned as a witch for having notably different ideas. Mob mentality. Totally works; not particularly enlightening but.

It's how advisors end up telling Key what he wants to…

Sacha

Mon, 28 May 2012 09:33:43 +1200

to care for each other on a wider scope than just within a small group or within those who thought along the same lines shared by a common ancestry

I'd argue the problem is exactly the opposite – that most of our time as humans has been in small kinship…

andin

Mon, 28 May 2012 09:08:54 +1200

it determines the way we live our lives, but most of us are shut out from discussing it – by language or privilege, or simply because it seems too hard. Thus do assumptions go unchallenged and thus is the debate left to technocrats and their ministers.

And maybe that is…

Russell Brown

Thu, 24 May 2012 21:30:31 +1200

Folks, if you're thinking of coming along, click through and get your ticket now. It's very nearly full up.

FletcherB

Thu, 24 May 2012 21:20:45 +1200

I has been discussed

Egomaniac! :)

Will de Cleene

Thu, 24 May 2012 12:16:34 +1200

which is a direct response to the NZBR's takeover of, oops, merger with the NZ Institute

Yeah, I was a bit disappointed to see the NZ Initiative is just a front for the Centre for Independent Studies in Oz.

DexterX

Wed, 23 May 2012 17:54:30 +1200

Eventually, and it look like a very long eventually, the only way is up.

merc

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:45:41 +1200

Needs to be seen, http://inthehouse.co.nz/node/12781

Russell Brown

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:32:05 +1200

That’s a great initiative and a fantastic opportunity for Aucklanders.
Any chance of a live stream?

I has been discussed, but there's some concern about spoilers for similar events in other centres. I'm keen on it.

Mark Graham

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:20:30 +1200

Good work Rus.

Sylvie Zlami

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:50:05 +1200

That's a great initiative and a fantastic opportunity for Aucklanders.
Any chance of a live stream?

Kumara Republic

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:49:40 +1200

If I'm not much mistaken, the speakers' list are the founder members of the Institute for Policy Initiatives, which is a direct response to the NZBR's takeover of, oops, merger with the NZ Institute:

__"We believe that the need for this independent “think-tank” was created by the recent merger of…

Sacha

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:03:47 +1200

Excellent. Impressed by what little I've seen of her.

Russell Brown

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:02:30 +1200

Just to note that I accidentally left Arena Williams off the speaker list.

Public Address

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:02:30 +1200

Discussion from blog post.