Yes, August the 31st is a date forever seared into the hearts and minds and souls of people worldwide - especially Westerners; as the unforgettable day upon which 'we all' learnt to our 'shock & horror' that the 'peoples' princess', Princess Diana (Spencer), had departed this earthly life in a nasty road chase through/'accident' in a tunnel in Paris. And I wrote extensively (just for your info, if you're at all interested) vis-a-vis that dramatic moment now etched in our collective memories/consciousness on the 20th anniversary thereof last year...(on either this or my other blogsite, which, just for your recollection, is http://nuffsaid:consideryourself-frombothsidesnow.blogspot.co.nz/ (or .com/).
No, I never miss a chance to *plug my blogsites, do I, but be that as it well may... . On this occasion I simply wish, and quite succinctly, to pay brief (but for me meaningful) tribute to a New Zealand totara who likewise finished his earthly sojourn upon this selfsame date back in 1974, some 44 years ago this evening... . As the song which the September Bulldog Band played at the TV Studio One awards that very night so memorably declared:
the man of Big Labour [was] our big Norm...our great National treasure [was] our big Norm...
the man of Social Credit [was] our big Norm...the man of our Values [was] our big Norm
Yes, Norman Eric Kirk strode the stage of NZ Inc - and the South Pacific (if not our world) - as few other politicians ever have. Probably why he - like **so many of the good and great do - died so young...and deeply mourned. But the reason I mention him (probably one third and final time) this holy, Sabbath eve - a time I rarely make blogposts (for that very reason) - is that he, alongside his immediate predecessor, John ('Jack') Marshall (of the National Party), were arguably the last truly Christian leaders - in deed as well as (articulate, or otherwise) word - Aotearoa-New Zealand
has, and will likely ever again, see...
Moreover - and as a natural (if obvious) consequence of the foregoing - he/they held the ground against the sort of social and theological liberalism that has since taken over the traditional Left and more importantly, taken Western societies down a virtual road of no return as ye 'ole motto 'anything goes' has now become the present-day watchword of our culture and looks set to readily and in the not too distant become our collective epitaph!
*Not that I ever make one lousy cent even off of them all or any of 'em, ya understand...
**Though I don't include ye average dissolute, over-sexed, drugged out, rock 'n rollin' popstar amidst that number...though perhaps a few came to their senses before they finally passed out and off this mortal coil...
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