tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post4165542662007358626..comments2024-03-26T10:03:51.827+13:00Comments on Karl du Fresne: The challenge of keeping up with new categories of victimKarl du Fresnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054853925940134404noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-83657896348245987882015-12-20T07:01:23.231+13:002015-12-20T07:01:23.231+13:00I'm seeing a spectrum here of competition and ...I'm seeing a spectrum here of competition and innovation.<br /><br />Within a 'conservative' social environment, like NZ settler culture, folk give and receive respect for being productive. For making consumer and producer life better in tangible ways such as food and shelter quality and quantity.<br /><br />The pendulum swung, it crossed over a Y axis somewhere in the late 1990s probably. You are now living in a 'victim culture' social environment. The innovation and competition spectrum line continues into this zone but it is applied to different things. "Defining yourself as a victim has become the thing to do" here in this cultural space, where the converts compete and innovate to out-victim one another.<br /><br />"We haven’t yet encountered such dangerous extremes of timidity in New Zealand, but it’s bound to come."<br /><br />Absolutely, we've only recently crossed the frontier. Plenty more space to move into yet.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06315796390662297759noreply@blogger.com