Time could be ripe for a ‘cultural adjustment’ New artwork

IN regard to the artwork in the Roseneath cutting being installed currently, I am dismayed that care has not been taken to align the pieces properly.

This is immediately apparent when passing and in a recent photograph (ODT, 27.4.21).

Once backfilling is carried out, adjustments will not be possible. After all the energy and thought that has gone into this, can the Dunedin City Council or contractor please be directed to align the panels with care and accuracy?

Mack Austin Port Chalmers ...................................

BIBLE READING: For the wise, the path of life leads upward. — Proverbs 15.24.

IT sounds like the boffins in the high towers of economics are thinking capitalism is running out of tricks.

Every few decades it has to be propped up by robbing sectors of the community or by tweaking it with a micro dose of socialism.

In some ways, neoliberal economics is akin to the Boeing 737 Max — it needs a powerful computer plugged in at all times or it will crash, only the 737 doesn’t eat up our planet and our young people just to keep it in the air.

Some young people suffocating in debt brought on by austerity are starting to think they might want a taste of the socialism that lifted their parents to become middleclass property owners with proper leisure time.

Maybe we are overdue for a cultural adjustment, or as Marx once said, we need a world run where it is. ‘‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.’’

Perhaps one day there will be no traditional nation states, less war and racism and religious tyranny, but clearly not on our current flightpath. Aaron Nicholson

Manapouri