With the absolute clarity of the current period of genocide in Northern Gaza, the absolute clarity of Israeli intent on cleansing the West Bank and Gaza of Palestinians whether by death or expulsion and the world’s refusal to intervene, any pretence of there being a moral global order disappears. We are left with the fact that we have reached a new stage in the decline of the Western colonial project and need to acknowledge that nation-state gangs have taken over. This must be accompanied by a further realisation that warring gangs are unlikely to solve any of the pressing issues and that we are left with opportunism and narcissism and that the spectacle which bemuses will become increasing manipulative and psychotic.

But what do we do? – as a residential cruise ship for millionaires named The World (but without any refugees on board) enters Wellington Harbour?

The World, tied up at Pipitea Wharf