On Society
This page collects my thoughts about society. I write fiction with a social conscience which means I like to look under the carpet at the ‘stuff’ we pretend isn't there. I’m not prolific (i.e. annoying) . I prefer that people say - they don’t write a lot, but what they do is worth reading. Sign up to my mailing list to hear when I’ve posted new material.
Selling the Silverware to Pay the Caterer: NZ Universities and the Money Myth
The focus of this post on the actions of New Zealand universities selling their assets and how their actions are entirely logical and at the same time nonsensical and dumb-as-a-sack-of-hammers.
Precarity Is the Point: Why Capitalism Needs You Afraid
Exsanguinate - to drain of blood; make bloodless; to bleed to death.
Precarity - a state of persistent insecurity with regard to employment or income.