By Juliet Moses on Stuff…

OPINION: In these fractured and fractious times, the one thing that people of different political stripes and ideologies seem able to agree on is that we are living in fractured and fractious times.

We face a vortex of interwoven challenges and changes – a pandemic with long-term ramifications, growing inequality, climate change, globalisation, the use of technology, rising populism, collapsing democracies and institutions, wars and high inflation.

Split Enz told us that history never repeats, and that is true, but it does rhyme (as we have also been told in a phrase that has, it seems, incorrectly been attributed to Mark Twain but definitely wasn’t Split Enz). This means that we see the same patterns and themes of the past emerging but not manifesting themselves in exactly the same way.

Every year on January 27, UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day services are held around New Zealand and the world.

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