A few items on current affairs in a changing world, and of New Zealand's early Colonial and pre-European history, with events surrounding the 1840 'Treaty of Waitangi'. Many accounts here have been drawn from primary sources written by those who were actually there.
All items are listed on the DIRECTORY page.
THE 1840 TREATY: Restoring or rewriting it now will only make things worse, for human nature tends that way. The Treaty served its purpose nearly 190 years ago, in an age none of us live in any longer. Treating it as something to keep renewing in 2026 only continues the old colonial habit of divide-and-rule — skin colour doing the dividing now, in place of utu — which settled a grievance between those who held it, not a whole people against another.
It was very soon after the 1840 Treaty that the Wairua, or Soul, of the Treaty was broken when its main initiators — James Busby, Henry Williams and others — were despised and rejected by those who went on to form their own government in Wellington. In 1847 Henry Williams wrote: How furious the natives will become when they realise how severely they have been deceived and cheated!'
Today, in 2026, that very thing is coming to pass. The scale of the deception we’ve been living under, and the lengths the human mind will go to cover it up, are being laid bare. We have entered a new age: the system we had grown used to now dissolving into history, and whether people say it aloud or not, most already feel it
The word 'māori' (pre Colonialism) meant 'ordinary' or 'common', therefore all of the country's ethnicities today are 'māori' anyway! There are not two human species!..Continue this here.
An holistic (wholeistic) approach to history is very beneficial, because whatever we hear or see we don't have to argue with, judge or condemn, knowing that the correct understanding will soon fall into place. Otherwise there becomes just too much too handle and we wouldn't know which way to turn.
Words are powerful, and as understanding develops, perceptions change. What we once may have considered to be a future fearful event, dissolves with understanding. For instance, the word Armageddon that was once feared, I find is not a future event at all, but just refers to the battle we have sorting out the changes in our own mind as we mature. After all, this (mind) is where it is all happening.
There is no need to fear the future - the Earth doesn't end, but the world we live in, ends (dies or changes continually) - a good thing. We grow into a new world daily.
Metoikos 12 Oct 26.