The Whoon Effect . . .

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

The Whoon Effect is a phenomenon where people in positions of responsibility have a perceived sense of grandiosity that relieves them of all the responsibilities of citizenry and intones that they are a law unto themselves. The Whoon Effect also involves assertions of privilege and righteousness that relieves these people of all accountability or oversight, which only applies to the peasantry.

When the jig is up and the whoonies are smoked out they will throw in the towel and run crazily for cover as if they are being chased by the Baskerville Hound that is the Serious Fraud Office. They will cloak themselves and assert innocence, but once that Baskerville Hound grabs them the only penance offered for their acts of whoonery will be cold, lumpy, chokey porridge without sprinkles.

Harawira Craig Pearless