Dave5

I could choose to live anywhere in the world. 14 years ago I chose to settle in NZ for the rest of my life. There was one very considered reason: the future.

I take as guidance 1 law: the law of requisite variety.

The larger the variety of actions available to a control system, the larger the variety of perturbations it is able to compensate.

The future will be turbulent and we need all the options we can get. Those options need to be numerous, adaptive and novel. As a society (our control system) those options provide us with “actions”. New Zealand, unlike any other country in the world, has open to it the widest variety of actions to it’s control system. The reason for this is the Treaty. The Maori force the British to Treaty – they were the only indigenous people to do so. The power those events has lent us over the last 40 years is profound. It is so profound that I describe NZ as living 50 to 100 years in the future. When I compare what we have and, importantly, what we don’t have NZ is so far ahead of the game.

Yesterday showed those levers at work. I have made the right choice. Yesterday showed how NZ is able to react to a destructive perturbation and react.

I am proud to live in NZ and I am proud to raise my children here.