Where is THE LOVE?

When it comes to love, Lisa says Kiwis take the easy – and lazy – approach

by Lisa Scott

This is a lazy age. We’ve gone from hunter-gatherer, to boil in a bag, to drive-thru, to ‘drive it straight to my house because I can’t be bothered getting off the couch’. Someone else squeezes our fruit for ripeness, bags it up and brings it over; we’re too lazy to go out for a movie: we Netflix in bed eating Rice Bubbles without milk (too lazy to walk to the fridge) instead. We’re lazy when we write – the height of romance these days is cut-and-pasting someone else’s poetry. There’s no such thing as plagiarism any more, just clever borrowing. “She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines…” Never mind that Fitzgerald never actually said this, no one under 30 has heard of him. Now that we…

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